backporch.fanhouse.com - 8/27/2008
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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. Mariotti told the Chicago Tribune that he will remain on ESPN's Around the Horn , but that the future of sports writing "sadly is not in newspapers." He said he is "talking with a lot of ...
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Filed under: Blogs, ESPNJay Mariotti, who resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times late last night, said in a local radio interview that the primary reason for his departure is that he thinks the future of sports writing is on the Internet, and that the Sun-Times web site is "a rickety one." "I think newspapers that aren't competing on the Internet are dead in the water," Mariotti said, making clear that he thinks the Sun-Times is well behind the curve on the web. "If we can't compete on the net we're dead." Mariotti said he will ...
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Bleacher Report - NFL 8/28/2008
It was reported yesterday that Jay Mariotti, formerly of the Chicago Sun-Times and "Around the Horn" of ESPN has left the paper and ESPN to pursue other opportunities.
He joined the Sun-Times in 1991.
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