Jay Mariotti
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| Jay Mariotti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 49–50) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Sportswriter and Broadcaster |
| Nationality | American |
Jay Mariotti (born 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a national columnist for Fanhouse.com and a regular panelist on the ESPN talk show Around the Horn. He attended Ohio University.
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[edit] Radio and television career
Mariotti is a regular panelist on Around the Horn and has guest hosted Pardon the Interruption.[1] Prior to his work with ESPN, he co-hosted a daily sports talk radio program on One on One Sports/Sporting News Radio.
[edit] AOL Sports
Mariotti made his writing debut for AOL Sports on January 5, 2009 where he shares his views about sports and sports personalities.
[edit] Sun-Times Resignation
On August 26, 2008, Mariotti announced that he was resigning from the Chicago Sun-Times after writing for them for 17 years. He stated his choice was heavily weighted on the fact that while covering the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing that 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."[2]
[edit] Controversy
In June 2006, Ozzie Guillén, then manager of the Chicago White Sox, publicly apologized for his use of a homosexual slur directed at Mariotti.[3] In addition, Mariotti has frequently apologized for having outbreaks of, what he terms, the "Farty, Fart Farts," or, in other words, conspicuous flatulence, while filming segments on Pardon The Interruption[citation needed],
[edit] References
- ^ "Jay Mariotti". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/jay-mariotti/person/235877/biography.html. Retrieved on 2006-11-04.
- ^ http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/01/jay-mariotti-jo.html Jay Mariotti joins AOL Sports as national columnist, no longer 'scrutinizing the same five teams over and over' January 4, 2009.
- ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2494491
