Archive for August, 2008

It’s Like Christmas in August for Chicago Sports Fans: Jay Mariotti Resigns from the Sun-Times

Posted August 27, 2008, 9:00 am by Jason McIntyre (46 Comments)

Jay Mariotti, the bitter Chicago sports columnist who has a bizarre allergy to locker rooms, went to Beijing to cover the Olympics and had an epiphany: Newspapers are in trouble! So he decided to jump ship before things got really bad! So one of the highest-paid newspaper columnists faxed in his resignation letter this week. [...]

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Barry Zito and Actress Lauren German? Supposedly.

Posted August 20, 2008, 9:00 am by Jason McIntyre (14 Comments)

This is actress Lauren German. You may have seen her in Hostel Part II. (Her 2002 Maxim spread is here; after the jump, an artsy photo of her.) Apparently, she is dating San Francisco Giants $126 million pitcher Barry Zito. A reader with an affinity for wine found this little nugget on page three of [...]

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An Interview with SI’s Jon Heyman

Posted August 14, 2008, 12:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

Here’s a treat for baseball fans and aspiring journalists: an interview with Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jon Heyman. He talks about landing last month’s Manny Ramirez-to-the-Dodgers scoop, what it’s like going against ESPN’s team of reporters, how bloggers and message boards have affected his job, and of course, baseball.

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Most Important Person in Ohio: OSU QB?

Posted August 13, 2008, 10:30 am by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

Nice piece this week in ESPN the Mag on the most popular Mexican-American football player ever (?), USC QB Mark Sanchez. (He recently busted a kneecap, but it doesn’t appear too serious.) In the ESPN piece, Sanchez revealed Ohio State coach Jim Tressel’s hard sell on the Buckeyes: Sanchez remembers Jim Tressel sitting behind his [...]

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