Jay Mariotti
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June 22, 1959 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Sportswriter and Broadcaster |
| Nationality | American |
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Jay Mariotti (/mæriˈɒti/; born June 22, 1959) is a former American sports commentator, writer, and, current blogger. Mariotti spent 17 years as a Chicago Sun-Times columnist and eight years as a regular panelist on the ESPN sports-talk program Around the Horn. He later served as The San Francisco Examiner sports program director for 11 months prior to his termination on March 1, 2016.
Mariotti was born in Pittsburgh and studied journalism at Ohio University before beginning his professional sportswriting career at The Detroit News. In 1985, Mariotti became one of the country's youngest sports columnists at The Cincinnati Post. He moved on to write columns for The Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post. He then wrote for The National Sports Daily in New York.
Mariotti made his writing debut for AOL Sports (now FanHouse) on January 5, 2009 where he shared his views about any number of sports-related topics. In 2010, he left Chicago and relocated to Los Angeles.
In 2010, ESPN announced it was no longer employing Mariotti due to his arrest on charges of domestic abuse.
On February 10, 2013, Jay Mariotti announced that he was returning to ESPN to work on "a freelance storytelling” assignment.
Mariotti joined the Chicago Sun-Times as a sports columnist in 1991 and spent 17 years there. He feuded with everyone from colleagues to Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, the latter of which prompted Sun-Times baseball writer Chris De Luca to write, "The same critics who avoid ever stepping into the White Sox's clubhouse are calling the Chicago media soft for not skewering manager Ozzie Guillen. They want Guillen fired yesterday. Sounds tough, but the rhetoric comes up a little, well, soft." On August 26, 2008, Mariotti announced that he was resigning from the newspaper. He stated his choice was heavily weighted on the fact that, while covering the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he saw more writers for websites covering the Games and a smaller presence of newspapers, giving him the opinion that writing for a website was "what the future holds." Mariotti's criticism of the newspaper industry and his resignation from the newspaper prompted a public rebuttal from another fellow Sun-Times employee, high-profile movie critic Roger Ebert, who defended the newspaper business and criticized Mariotti's penchant for writing sensationalist columns to attract readers.
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