After leaving Ohio University, Mariotti earned a job as a feature writer for
The Detroit News. He stayed at that newspaper for 4 years before taking a job as a sports columnist for
The Cincinnati Post in 1985. He later moved to
Denver where he was a columnist for both the
Rocky Mountain News and
The Denver Post. While in Denver, he also hosted a
sports talk radio show on KBX. In 1990, he joined
The National Sports Daily as a columnist based in
Detroit and, later,
New York City. The publication folded in 1991, and Mariotti became a columnist for the
Chicago Sun-Times later that year. During his tenure there, he also hosted several radio shows including one in the late 1990s that was syndicated through the
One on One Sports network and another in 2004 on Chicago's
WMVP. He 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. Starting in 2002, he became a regular panelist on the
ESPN sports talk show,
Around the Horn. He also made occasional appearances on another ESPN program,
Pardon the Interruption. In August 2008, Mariotti left the
Chicago Sun-Times, citing his belief that newspapers would soon become obsolete with news coverage primarily coming from websites. On September 30, 2010, 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. In August 2010, Mariotti was suspended from AOL's FanHouse and stopped appearing on
Around the Horn or any other ESPN properties. Mariotti has since maintained his innocence, stating that he pleaded no contest only to avoid the costs of a trial. Some charges against him were expunged in 2013. In March 2015, he was hired as the sports director for
The San Francisco Examiner. In that position, he wrote 4 to 5 columns per week for the paper. In December 2016, Mariotti started a podcast called
Unmuted with his former
Around the Horn panelist,
Woody Paige. Mariotti continues to host the show, although Paige is no longer a co-host. == References ==