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"LOS ANGELES -- ESPN personality and AOL sports columnist Jay Mariotti has been arrested on a felony charge in Los Angeles. Officer Norma Eisenman says the 51-year-old Mariotti was arrested early Saturday in the police department's Pacific Division following a "domestic incident." Eisenman declined to provide further details. The Sheriff's Department website confirms Mariotti was booked on an undisclosed felony charge at 5:45 a.m. He was released on $50,000 bail just after noon Saturday. ESPN spokesperson Josh Krulewitz said, "We've just learned of it and are looking into it," declining further comment. Mariotti lives in Los Angeles. He is a panelist on the ESPN show "Around the Horn" and writes a regular column for the sports website Fanhouse.com, which is owned by AOL. He was a longtime columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. FanHouse editor-in-chief Scott Ridge said, "We are in the process of gathering the facts, and we have no further comment at this time.""

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5481872

Didn't even know about this until ATH just took him to the woodshed for it. I'm surprised they talked about it, but no one (Blackistone, Ryan, and obviously Paige) had a kind word to say about him. Hopefully this will keep him off ESPN and out of the media for good. What a tool.

[Edited on August 30, 2010 at 5:34 PM. Reason : link]

8/30/2010 5:34:29 PM

Førte arrested for posting a story nine days old

8/30/2010 5:35:32 PM

^

[Edited on August 30, 2010 at 5:36 PM. Reason : x]

8/30/2010 5:36:17 PM

ebert ripped him apart over it

even more than when he ripped him apart for quitting the sun-times

8/30/2010 5:44:21 PM

i hated that overconfident assclown anyhow

good riddance

8/30/2010 5:49:29 PM

fuck him

keep his ass locked up

8/30/2010 5:53:47 PM

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy bigger asshat.

8/30/2010 5:56:00 PM

damn. would've liked to catch ATH today to hear what was said

8/30/2010 6:32:42 PM

I just listened to today's ATH podcast and I don't think they ripped him that bad. They each said they were sad/sorry it happened but they also each said they weren't surprised at all the negative reaction from people.

8/30/2010 6:32:50 PM

how the fuck is AOL still a company

8/30/2010 9:31:35 PM

old people

8/31/2010 2:58:40 PM

I keep hearing about this story but I haven't heard any facts on the "domestic indecent." Where are the juicy details TWW?

8/31/2010 3:10:11 PM

Here's to Greg Doyel being next. Real life trolls are even less funny than internet ones.

8/31/2010 3:12:44 PM

^^
http://deadspin.com/5619582/jay-mariotti-domestic-dispute-witness-he-grabbed-her-by-the-hair

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"The woman, seen in this photo taken last May at a bar in Santa Monica, is Jay Mariotti's girlfriend, the one involved in the alleged domestic disturbance early Saturday morning. The eyewitness who called the cops on Mariotti gives us his report. This individual, who wishes not to be identified, was parked in his car, picking up his girlfriend outside the Air apartment complex on the corner of Rose Avenue and Ocean Front Walk. He made the call to the cops at 3:13 a.m. Saturday. This is a summary of the details he told them, which he shared with us. "I was down there, outside across the street in my car picking up a girl at the end of the night. While i waited i saw a couple having an argument. I first thought it was a bad blind date that was having a kiss goodbye stalemate...but as i watched it unfold I could tell something bad was going to go down. It got heated fast. He was boxing her out every time she tried to get around him. He was d-ing her up like Gary Payton. He mirrored every side step she made. When my girl got in the car i told her we had to wait to make sure he didn't do anything to the woman. I honked my horn at one point as to say "Hey someone is here watching you" as an escalation deterrent and once that didn't work i was pretty sure the cops were going to be needed. "She punched her code to get into the lobby of her building...and when she did that he fired the door open and followed her in..and that's when it began. Lucky for me her lobby was a giant glass one so i could continue to see everything that was going on when they went inside." This is the lobby: "She sat on a couch and he grabbed her by the hair and whipped her around a bit — ripped something out of her ear and shoved her around. With those actions I told my girl to call the cops and i went to the trunk of my cart to get my black wiffle ball bat to try and put the fear of god in him...but before i could do so he fired her into the elevator and they disappeared. Being the resourceful guy I am, I went up to the door and found out what floor they stopped at so i could relay that info to the cops. I'll tell you this much. the guy has a serious rage problem...[H]e was ripping stuff off the walls and firing it in the lobby too. some papers or something. i guess to show how macho he was." Oh and there's this: Around The Horn is not filming this week, but ESPN is currently reviewing the situation before they make a formal announcement. But, as both Sports By Brooks and SI have already told you, word out of Bristol is that he's gone. Chances are probably good that he's written his last Fanhouse column as well — but maybe they'll let him do a farewell one to condemn his own actions as stridently as he's written about others in similar situations."

8/31/2010 7:13:45 PM

-2 pts

8/31/2010 8:34:56 PM

^winner

8/31/2010 8:40:43 PM

sure, this oughta scare em...

8/31/2010 11:31:15 PM

Mariotti is 51? That is news!

8/31/2010 11:41:09 PM

And just like that, my TV commentator career was over.

9/2/2010 5:51:11 PM

3 years probation according to the bottom line for the prissy little bitch

9/30/2010 11:11:50 PM

Quote :

"He was d-ing her up like Gary Payton"

LOL

10/1/2010 10:02:42 PM

BTTT
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/espn-personality-jay-mariotti-charged-with-felony-stalking-and-assault-after-allegedly-confronting-ex-girlfriend.html

ahaha

5/11/2011 7:46:29 PM

dont drop the soap!

5/11/2011 7:54:35 PM

That's an insanely old picture on that article.

5/11/2011 8:00:00 PM

what's kellerman up to these days

5/11/2011 8:02:36 PM

I never actually saw ATH with Kellerman. Just seen it on Youtube a few times.

Reali is way better.

5/12/2011 1:19:43 AM

^^ HBO Boxing

5/12/2011 1:32:48 AM

i dont make it home in time to watch ATH anymore. Did Mariotti ever return after the first arrest?

5/12/2011 8:39:29 AM

the few times I've watched it this year, I haven't seen him on there- which I thought was weird...

then again, this is the first I'm hearing of this arrest too

5/12/2011 8:55:43 AM

^^ ESPN announced he would not be on anymore after he was arrested.

5/12/2011 9:39:14 AM

The other hosts killed him too when news of the arrest was announced. It would be pretty awkward.

5/12/2011 11:24:32 AM

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"Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy bigger asshat."

[Edited on May 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM. Reason : .]

5/17/2011 10:22:36 AM