Ebert v Mariotti

abomb · August 29th, 2008, 02:53 PM

Ebert Slams Former Sun-Times Sports Columnist
29 August 2008 10:31 AM, PDT

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has fired a broadside against the newspaper's most prominent sports columnist, Jay Mariotti, following Mariotti's resignation earlier this week. "What an ugly way to leave the Sun-Times," Ebert wrote in an open letter to Mariotti. "Your timing was exquisite. You signed a new contract, waited until days after the newspaper had paid for your trip to Beijing at great cost, and then resigned with a two-word e-mail: 'I quit.' ... The fact that you saved your attack for TV only completes our portrait of you as a rat." And Ebert, in a final shot, signed off with this advice to his former colleague: "On the way out, don't let the door bang you on the ass."

Oasis in the Desert · November 11th, 2008, 04:18 PM

Chalk up one for Ebert. I can't stand Mariotti. I cheer for Woody Paige to thrash his face on Around the Horn.

abomb · November 11th, 2008, 05:05 PM

I wish Mariotti was the one who lost his voice.

Oasis in the Desert · November 16th, 2008, 05:54 PM

Mariotti is such a homerish prima donna.