Sports Columnist Jay Mariotti Arrested on Felony Charge
Written by playerpress.com, Saturday August 21 2010
ESPN “Around the Horn” personality, Fanhouse.com sports columnist, and longtime Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti has been arrested on a felony assault charge in
According to an ESPN.com report, Officer Norma Eisenman says the 51-year-old Mariotti was arrested early Saturday in the police department's Pacific Division following a "domestic incident."
The Big Lead reports that LAPD sources told them it started when he got into an argument with his girlfriend at a
Mariotti was booked on an unspecified felony charge at 5:45 a.m. and he was being held on $50,000 bail at the
ESPN spokesperson Josh Krulewitz said, "We've just learned of it and are looking into it," declining further comment.
Mariotti resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times in 2008 after writing for them for 17 years.
Mariotti’s writing style caused numerous confrontations and his opinions of local sports personalities made him the columnist that you love to hate.
In early 2004, Chicago White Sox broadcaster Ken "the Hawk" Harrelson called Marriotti "the biggest sports fraud", adding that he had never seen him in the White Sox club house.
After continued arguing through the media, the two personalities were eventually involved in a physical altercation in July 2004 at the Metrodome in
In June 2006, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén, apologized for calling Mariotti a "fag." However, he did not apologize to Mariotti, only for saying the slur.
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