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5 unusual facts about Jay Mariotti


J. T. the Brick

J.T. made a guest appearance on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on June 26, 2006, to discuss the feud between Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti, and Chicago White Sox skipper Ozzie Guillén.

Jay Mariotti

In August 2013, Mariotti launched an internet television broadcast called "The Mariotti Show" on www.mariottishow.com in a distribution deal with Genesis Communications.

He moved to The Denver Post in the late 1980s, where he met Woody Paige, a fellow regular panelist on Around the Horn. Mariotti and Paige were said to have been in a long-running feud during their time together in Denver, which eventually resulted in Mariotti leaving the Post for the paper's then rival, the Rocky Mountain News; the rivalry was something that was mentioned at times in the early episodes of Around the Horn.

Ozzie Guillén

In June 2006 he was quoted as calling Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti a fag.

Ray Clay

Jordan was then playing for the Washington Wizards, and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti asked Clay how he was going to introduce the ex-Bull.



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