Jay Mariotti

Jay Mariotti
Born (1959-06-22) June 22, 1959
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Occupation
Known for Former Around the Horn panelist and Chicago Sun-Times columnist
Website www.jaymariotti.com

Jay Mariotti (/mæriˈɒti/; born June 22, 1959) is an American sports journalist and commentator who currently hosts the sports-related podcast Unmuted. He previously 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.[1]

Early life and education

Mariotti was born on June 22, 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in suburban Pittsburgh. After high school, he attended Ohio University where he was the sports editor on the school's newspaper.[2][3]

Career

After leaving Ohio University, Mariotti earned a job as a feature writer for The Detroit News. He stayed at that newspaper for 4 years before taking a job as a sports columnist for The Cincinnati Post in 1985.[4] 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.[5][6][7]

Mariotti started writing for AOL Sports on January 5, 2009, where he shared his views about any number of sports-related topics.[8] 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.[9]

On February 10, 2013, Jay Mariotti announced that he was returning to ESPN to work on "a freelance storytelling” assignment.[10]

Chicago Sun-Times

Mariotti joined the Chicago Sun-Times as a sports columnist in 1991 and spent 17 years there.[1] He feuded with everyone from colleagues to Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén, 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 Guillén. 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."[11] 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.[12]

'Mariotti Madness'

In April 2015, The San Francisco Examiner hired Mariotti to be its lead sports columnist as part of an expanded sports package. In March 2016, Mariotti and the Examiner parted ways.[13]

Unmuted

In January 2017, Mariotti and fellow Around the Horn panelist Woody Paige launched a daily sports podcast titled "Unmuted".[14]

Domestic disturbance arrest

On the morning of August 21, 2010, Mariotti was arrested in Los Angeles, and released on $50,000 bond. On September 13, Los Angeles city prosecutors charged Mariotti with seven misdemeanors in connection with the domestic disturbance.[15] On September 30, Mariotti pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery count and was sentenced to 3 years probation and 40 days of community service.[16] The charge was later expunged.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 7, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Johnson, Dirk (October 2006). "Press Boxing". Chicago. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  3. ↑ Longo, Chris (14 August 2014). "Q&A: Jay Mariotti". Backdrop Magazine. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Watson-Rouslin, Virginia (December 1986). "The Post's Feisty Mariotti". Cincinnati. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  5. ↑ The Archives (August 28, 2008). "Infamous Sports Writer Jay Mariotti's Exit". WBEZ. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Ware, Kevin (November 11, 2007). "Newhouse : Columnist Mariotti sounds off on Chicago, Guillen, Costas - The Daily Orange - The Independent Student Newspaper of Syracuse, New York". The Daily Orange. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ "The National, Sports Daily, To Fold". Apnewsarchive.com. 1991. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  8. ↑ Jay Mariotti Lead Columnist (January 15, 2009). "Sunnier Times in New Mainstream Media - FanHouse". Jay-mariotti.fanhouse.com. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  9. ↑ "ESPN has 'no plans' to use Jay Mariotti on network amid domestic violence charges". Los Angeles Times. September 13, 2010. Retrieved November 18, 2010.
  10. ↑ Sherman, Ed (February 11, 2013). "Mariotti receives ESPN assignment: Working on 'storytelling' project". The Sherman Report. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Tower Ticker: Jay Mariotti joins AOL Sports as national columnist, no longer 'scrutinizing the same five teams over and over'". newsblogs.chicagotribune.com.
  12. ↑ "Jay the Rat". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
  13. ↑ Yoder, Matt. "Jay Mariotti's time at the San Francisco Examiner has come to an end", Awful Announcing, March 24, 2016. Retrieved on October 29, 2016.
  14. ↑ "'Unmuted: The Daily Sports Podcast' Debuts Jan. 3, Featuring Woody Paige and Jay Mariotti". Prnewswire.com. December 16, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Sports commentator Jay Mariotti charged with seven misdemeanors - ESPN Los Angeles". Sports.espn.go.com. September 14, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  16. ↑ "Jay Mariotti Sentenced After Domestic Violence Arrest". The Huffington Post. October 1, 2010. Archived from the original on October 4, 2010. Retrieved November 18, 2010.
  17. ↑ Garofoli, Joe. "Controversial sports pundit Jay Mariotti hired by S.F. Examiner", San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2015. Retrieved on April 27, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.