Our long civic nightmare is over
desipio.com —
As if manna from heaven, news spread tonight that the biggest boil on the ass of Chicago sports has had himself lanced.
For more than a decade I’ve longed to write these words.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut, to resign.
It should come as no shock, given that the paper he works for is about two months away from a toe tag. At the time he signed his new three year contract extension (believed to be worth an absurd $6 million) in June, we joked that it was like Steve Young’s $40 million deal with the LA Express. Jay had ...
Mariotti Fires Self; Blog Continues Existence Anyways
Fire Jay Mariotti —
It's official, people. We finally got it done. Sort of. Not really. He's probably just taking some time off to write a shitty book and moving to Sports Illustrated or something. ...
Top ten replacements for Jay Mariotti
Top Ten Chicago Sports —
... The resignation of the city’s most engaging sports columnist leaves Chicago searching for answers. Mainly: who’s to take his place? We here at TTCS have some ideas. ...
The Newspaper Business Will Just Have To Die Without Jay Mariotti
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
The Chicago Sun-Times reported this morning that longtime columnist Jay Maritotti was leaving the paper “to pursue other opportunities.” Though there wouldn’t seem to be an unlimited number of opportunities to make Rex Grossman cry or to goad Ozzie Guillen into calling Jay a fag (professionally, anyway), wherever it happens next will probably be online Mariotti tells the Chicago Tribune’s Jim Kirk (links courtesy Jason Cohen).
Just back from Beijing where he wrote about the Summer Olympics, ...
Jay Mariotti Quits Sun-Times: 'I'm Talking With a Lot of Web Sites'; Will Stay on ESPN
FanHouse —
... Jay Mariotti, the Sun-Times columnist who for years has been Chicago's best-known sports writer, has resigned from the paper after 17 years. He indicated that he plans to take his writing to the Internet. ...
Jay Mariotti: Quits Chicago Sun-Times Before Struggling Newspaper Business "Takes Him Down With It" [Media Meltdowns]
Deadspin —
... Wow. Based on the enormous amount of emails flooding Deadspin's inbox, you would've thought that there was an assassination of a beloved sports figure or a towering inferno at Yankee Stadium. Nope. The reason for the deluge was because Jay Mariotti, after 17 years of vituperative hackdom, has decided to turn in his leaky pen and Remington portable and is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times. ...
Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: Replay, A-Rod, Tebow
The Sporting Blog —
... The Last Word: Jay Mariotti has left the Chicago Sun-Times, presumably to devote himself more fully to his TV work. ...
It’s Like Christmas in August for Chicago Sports Fans: Jay Mariotti Resigns from the Sun-Times
The Big Lead —
Jay Mariotti, the bitter Chicago sports columnist who has a bizarre allergy to locker rooms, went to Beijing to cover the Olympics and had an epiphany: Newspapers are in trouble! So he decided to jump ship before things got really bad! So one of the highest-paid newspaper columnists faxed in his resignation letter this week.
Mariotti said in a phone interview that he decided to quit after it became clear while in China that sports journalism had become “entirely a Web site business. There were not ...
This Resignation Is Not the End of the Story
The 35th Street Review —
... of responsible journalism while cutting down his peers for lesser infractions, they would say. I hate having my name in the same publication as that man, they would say.
Last night, that exception stepped down. Readers, writers and subjects rejoiced in harmony.
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In Which It Finally Happened [Jay the Joke]
Sun-Times Columnist Jay Mariotti Resigns [Chicago Tribune]
Jay Mariotti Leaves the Sun-Times (with user comments!) [Chicago Sun-Times]
But Who Will Tell Me How Bad Our Teams Suck?
Foul Balls —
... In case you haven't heard the news, tis a dark day in Chicago my friends. This morning we are forced to enter a new frontier in Chicago sports, a dark and scary frontier. It's not going to be easy, but I think if we all work together, we're going to get through this. Though it just won't be the same. It will be better . Sports columnist Jay Mariotti has left the Chicago Sun-Times to pursue other opportunities. Mariotti, also a regular panelist on ESPN's "Around the Horn," joined the Sun-Times in 1991. Is today the greatest day in the history of the world? Why yes, yes it is. ...
Today's Warnings : 27 August, 2008
A Stern Warning - NBA, NBL and FIBA News & Views —
... Some great videos there comparing Baron Davis with Ricky Rubio, though I think some may have issue with that nickname... is Rudy Fernandez known as the Spanish Fly? A great roundup of Aussie basketball news and some Spanish Fly-swatting (or grabbing) imagery from JR. The greatest athlete Phil Jackson has ever coached? MJ? Kobe? No, Dennis Rodman. I really can't argue with that. The guy was amazing. Well-known Chicago reporter Jay Mariotti has left the Sun-Times. Where he goes, nobody knows. Jeff Foster, Indiana Pacers' ...
Jose Guillen Restrained From Attacking Fan
Foul Balls —
... is stepping down as the paper's lead sports columnist (and Chicagoans everywhere wonder who will tell them their teams suck). Then there are those headlines I read that don't surprise me at all, and I saw one of those this morning as well. It read: ...
Jose Guillen Restrained From Attacking Fan
FanHouse —
Filed under: Royals, AL Central, MLB Fans, MLB GossipThere are some headlines I never expect to see when I'm flipping through the newspaper in the morning, or just surfing around the internet. It happened to me this morning in fact when I was reading the Chicago Sun-Times and found out that Jay Mariotti is stepping down as the paper's lead sports columnist (and Chicagoans everywhere wonder who will tell them their teams suck). Then there are those headlines I read that don't surprise me at all, and I saw one of ...
Farewell, Dearest Jay
Rumors and Rants —
The Chicago sports journalism world was rocked late last night with confirmation that Jay Mariotti is no longer with us. Ironically, the most information on the move was not found in the Sun-Times, but the Chicago Tribune, with whom Jay gladly squawked without so much as an au revoir in the paper that was set to pay him millions of dollars in the next three years. You can also find a tribute to Jay's departure at the blog Jay The Joke, although I can't imagine this can be very good for business on a the site built on deconstructing ...
