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FanHouse's Jay Mariotti Pleads No Contest to Misdemeanor

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles city attorney's office says FanHouse and ESPN personality Jay Mariotti has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery count stemming from an August incident involving a female companion. City attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan says Mariotti was sentenced Thursday to 36 months of...

From The Windup: Just Who Is a Chicago White Sox Fan to Vote For?

From The Windup is FanHouse's daily, extended look at a particular portion of America's pastime.I don't know if you've been paying attention, but there are some things going on in this country right now that are far more important than whether or not the Cubs will win the World Series, or whether New York will collapse on...

Roger Ebert to Jay Mariotti: 'On Your Way Out, Don't Let the Door Bang You on the Ass'

Until he resigned this week, Jay Mariotti had been the second most famous columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. The paper's most famous columnist, Roger Ebert, is the latest to tell Mariotti, "Good riddance."An open letter from Ebert to Mariotti includes the following:What an ugly way to leave the Sun-Times. It does not...

Hatred of Jay Mariotti Gets PeteJayhawk on Front Page of Chicago Sun-Times

If you read the comments here at FanHouse or at a lot of other sports blogs, you probably know a guy who posts under the name PeteJayhawk. Now hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans know him as well.That's him, at the top of the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times, being welcomed back to the paper after sending an e-mail...

The White Sox Aren't Sad to See Mariotti Go

While most of the blogging world has been celebrating the resignation/firing of Jay Mariotti at the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday, it's not just those of us who read him that are happy to see him go. The Chicago White Sox have long been one of Jay's favorite targets. Whether he's ripping on team owner Jerry Reinsdorf,...

Background on Jay Mariotti

Jay Mariotti (; born June 22, 1959) is a former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times who has done work as a panelist on the ESPN show Around the Horn.

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