13 Facts About Jay Mariotti

Jay Mariotti is an American sports journalist and commentator who currently hosts the sports-related podcast Unmuted.

Jay Mariotti previously spent 17 years as a Chicago Sun-Times columnist and eight years as a regular panelist on the ESPN sports-talk program Around the Horn.

Jay Mariotti stayed at that newspaper for 4 years before taking a job as a sports columnist for The Cincinnati Post in 1985.

Jay Mariotti later moved to Denver where he was a columnist for both the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.

The publication folded in 1991, and Jay Mariotti became a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times later that year.

Jay Mariotti would go on to spend 17 years as a columnist at the Sun-Times.

Jay Mariotti left the latter position after 10 months after refusing to comply with the station's request that he minimize his criticism of the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls.

Jay Mariotti made occasional appearances on another ESPN program, Pardon the Interruption.

On September 30,2010, Jay Mariotti pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery count connected to an August 21 arrest in Los Angeles for alleged domestic violence involving his girlfriend.

Jay Mariotti has since maintained his innocence, stating that he pleaded no contest only to avoid the costs of a trial.

Jay Mariotti left the Examiner after a year in March 2016.

In December 2016, Jay Mariotti started a podcast called Unmuted with his former Around the Horn panelist, Woody Paige.

Jay Mariotti continues to host the show, although Paige is no longer a co-host.