Yesterday, we discovered former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti landed a job as a columnist for AOL Sports. No small achievement for a pundit Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan describes as “easily the most despised columnist in Chicago, if not in America, for his ill-informed opinions, delusions of grandeur, and the undeservedly cocky cut of his jib.”
With Monday’s introductory column in the books, Mariotti hit the ground running this morning with a scathing criticism of Hall of Fame hoopster Charles Barkley, who was arrested on suspiscion of drunk driving early on New Year’s Eve morning in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mariotti claims Barkley is “stuck in permanent adolescence and has become a perpetual circus onto himself,” and says David Stern should step in and advise TNT to suspend Barkley — perhaps until the playoffs in April.
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