Early this morning Jay Mariotti was arrested by the L.A.P.D. and charged with felony domestic assault in Venice, Calif., after a dispute with his girlfriend. Mariotti was released on $50,000 bail at noon today and is scheduled to make a court appearance on Sept. 17 in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Here’s the key part of the L.A. TIMES account of the incident:
The argument continued at the couple’s apartment near Venice where Mariotti allegedly pushed and shoved the woman. During the altercation, Mariotti grabbed her arm, leaving marks, the sources said.
Police were called to the apartment and found his girlfriend, who has not been identified, with cuts and bruises.
After the L.A. TIMES’ revelation that police found “cuts and bruises” on Mariotti’s girlfriend in the aftermath of the alleged assault, I spoke to several ESPN sources about Mariotti’s prospect for future employment at the company.
One Bristol-based ESPN source said, “if the (L.A. TIMES) report is true, he’s done. It’s a death sentence to his career at ESPN.”
A Los Angeles-based ESPN source said of Mariotti’s chances of keeping his job at ESPN, “I don’t think he’ll survive.”
As for Mariotti’s immediate status at the network, with ESPN’s Around The Horn television show on hiatus next week due to Little League World Series broadcasts, Bristol may allow for more details of the case to surface before issuing a statement on Mariotti’s standing with the company. For now, ESPN isn’t commenting.
Mariotti moved to Los Angeles two months ago in an attempt to relaunch his radio career. ESPN sources in L.A. and Bristol tell me that Mariotti was due to launch a morning show from 6-8am PT with Jalen Rose in the near future on ESPN-owned KSPN-AM in Los Angeles.
If the show did well during the Lakers season, I was told that ESPN execs were considering moving the duo to another more prominent daypart on the station.
But from what I’ve been told today by ESPN sources inside the Disney-owned company, those plans may soon be moot.
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5:39 pm on August 21st, 2010
Fire his ass
6:24 pm on August 21st, 2010
He’s a pr— and deserves to be thrown under the bus like he throws everybody else!!
Steve
6:45 pm on August 21st, 2010
yeah he’s a jerk really a jerk
7:02 pm on August 21st, 2010
see ya asshole
7:03 pm on August 21st, 2010
ESPN has a lot of shady people on the payroll. No morals there. All the real journalists look bad. ESPN has a bunch of biased nobodies there who will talk bad about you but have many things anyone can say about them.
7:10 pm on August 21st, 2010
so what, does that mean cowherd’s show is going to get it’s hours cut? either by this or some other radio show?
7:13 pm on August 21st, 2010
I am shocked at this story. I am not shocked about the domestic violence. I am shocked Marriotti had a girlfriend. No way does Marriotti have a girlfriend unless she’s the kind you pay.
7:28 pm on August 21st, 2010
they should fire craig james’ lying ass. that guy’s a dick.
7:30 pm on August 21st, 2010
Sounds like he’ll be hosting a show on msnbc before we know it.
7:35 pm on August 21st, 2010
HE’S A JACKASS @ AN IGNORANT, COCKY PUNK WHO THINKS HE KNOWS IT ALL.
7:42 pm on August 21st, 2010
Why can’t something good like that happen to Woody Paige?
8:00 pm on August 21st, 2010
Well well well….ain’t this something. LOL
Here is a guy who makes a living judging and criticizing others and now he is on the carpet being judged. Funny how life works.
As for ESPN, I find it comical that they would even take the high road when you consider some of the scum they have working for them. I for one be glad when another sports network emerges, that way I can watch sports news with the volume turned up instead of down.
Personally, I say let Marriotti keep his job at ESPN, he will be in perfect company - a pond with more scum floating on top of it.
8:00 pm on August 21st, 2010
Everytime I heard his name mentioned it reminded me of “Marriott” and the Mormon/Cornell/Newport Beach Road Island mob that run that joint.
8:20 pm on August 21st, 2010
Good riddance!! A**hole. He is always judgemental. You might check to see if his “girlfriend” is a real man. You know what I mean.
8:50 pm on August 21st, 2010
Yo g Mariotti is DA bomb, gotta try and keep dem hoes in line. F$$k you hatas. Fa real!
9:18 pm on August 21st, 2010
always knew tony reali was a chick.
9:35 pm on August 21st, 2010
I honestly thought this guy was gay. Are you sure it was a female or was it a guy dressed in drag?
9:46 pm on August 21st, 2010
I love it when the self righteous and opinionated fall into their own traps. Just like Limbaugh with the oxycontin, this loser has made his living on criticizing, evaluating, and crushing athletes who do things like beat their girlfriends.
Hey schmuck how would you critique your actions beating on a woman?
This is so perfect
Mariotti you are done and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving ahole. Now I don’t have to look at your ugly face ever again(unless its a police mug shot)
9:53 pm on August 21st, 2010
ESPN. They’ve sucked for more than 10 years now. Who really cares. You want outstanding sports (NFL) coverage, go to the NFL Network.
10:05 pm on August 21st, 2010
want to see if and when ESPN will bring this up on sports center or better yet on “around the horn”.how many points will reali give for “inside information”…ESPN sucks balls…bunch of hypoc…
10:06 pm on August 21st, 2010
I dont know how many people are employed directly by ESPN but when you consider the number of their employees in the last few years that have run afoul of the law, I cant but help to wonder when they’re going to start recruiting at jails and prisons, if they havent already.
10:58 pm on August 21st, 2010
i wanna know what ozzie guillen thinks on this topic!
11:03 pm on August 21st, 2010
Way to go JAY!! You are the biggest JA on radio and or TV. You made a life out of being a jerk for no reason. Most people have a point when they are being angry. Coudlnt stand you on TV, RADIO, and or Newspaper. Maybe you can enjoy time in Jail. YOU DONT HIT WOMEN JAY! You would ask for any athelete that did this, to lose their job, livelyhood…..Can you learn to say this JAY? Would you like Fries with that?!
11:09 pm on August 21st, 2010
ESPN sucks!!!!!!! No wonder Dan Patrick Left the mother ship. I love his radio show and I watch it on directv 101. As for this douche-bag, don’t let the door hit your ass on your way out.
11:10 pm on August 21st, 2010
That what he gets for being a know it all, judgemental a-hole. Hey Mariotti , how does it feel to be looked down at?
11:21 pm on August 21st, 2010
I just hope they find a different cohost for Jalen Rose and that show. It would be a shame if Rose got the short end of the stick because of Jay being an @$$ as always.
11:26 pm on August 21st, 2010
Hey Assclam, where can I find more info on this Marriott hotel stuff you’re talking about?
11:26 pm on August 21st, 2010
And these are the *ss-clowns that vote for the Hall of Fame. Sorry as**s that couldn’t make the team. Does he get voted into the journalism hall of shame?
11:34 pm on August 21st, 2010
Why did he hit her? He should just have separated from her!!!
11:41 pm on August 21st, 2010
come on we know if he had been fighting a girl she would have kicked his A$$. she must have hurt herself some other way.
11:44 pm on August 21st, 2010
Sydney:
Inside info from Ryck & Goldie
11:58 pm on August 21st, 2010
He has always been as POS
11:58 pm on August 21st, 2010
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12:23 am on August 22nd, 2010
Can’t wait to hear Ozzie Guillen weigh in on it.
12:50 am on August 22nd, 2010
Couldn’t of happen to a better wind bag.
Good Riddance
1:23 am on August 22nd, 2010
the witch Deserve it.
2:24 am on August 22nd, 2010
Finally he gets what he deserves
4:14 am on August 22nd, 2010
How do you guys hear about this stuff? I wished I was in the “in-crowd!”
4:58 am on August 22nd, 2010
Let see if ESPN runs this story on their loop like they do Black athletes. Lets see if they run this jerk in the ground.
5:14 am on August 22nd, 2010
speaking of ESPN getting rid of people. what is that d-bag Craig James still doing covering college football? How do they justify that?
5:43 am on August 22nd, 2010
espn is a collection of loud-mouthed wannabes and dopey has-beens…its programming and it’s employees are really quite pathetic
7:21 am on August 22nd, 2010
Whats all the chatter about Craig James? Something I didn’t hear about?
8:36 am on August 22nd, 2010
What does Mariotti’s girlfriend look like….? Picture Woody Paige with a mustache…. LOL
So long Jay! I think the lower bunk in Jeremy Green’s cell is available.
8:47 am on August 22nd, 2010
Never liked this guy he is a scumbag.Cancel his 15 minute of fame.
8:50 am on August 22nd, 2010
Are we really sitting here talking about some one who only gets 30 minutes a day on tv? He is an ass and gets old very quick, but he is not the first or last person that will abuse a b1tch. Also its the same thing that happens all the time these days, famous person+b1tch= abuse lawsuits and just trying to make a quick buck. Whatever he did, who cares thats his personal life and if the b1tch got hit, she should get a job rather than try to get a lawsuit and try to make a quick buck
9:24 am on August 22nd, 2010
Come on, guys and gals! He has had ‘ONE’ domestic violence incident! Let’s not crucify him. Jay seems to be a fine person to me. A little grating at times, but all in all I forgive him, and think you should consider forgiveness, too.
10:20 am on August 22nd, 2010
ESPN is garbage - this guy fits in perfectly
10:22 am on August 22nd, 2010
I wonder if ESPN will ‘report’ on this clown? hmmm…He could call Harold Reynolds and ask for a recommendation? Dan Patrick was a smart dude - he saw the ship sinking and bounced…I wish there was another sports network that actually only cared about SPORTS…maybe we could have an hour long expose on this clown hosted by Lebron…gotta get those ratings…a$$holes
10:25 am on August 22nd, 2010
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
10:27 am on August 22nd, 2010
After listening to this clown berate, belittle people, because they have made a mistake, I really wonder what he’s thinking now. What an A–hole
10:52 am on August 22nd, 2010
Guess Jay Maricrotchitti won’t be appearing in the JA Adande lounge anymore.
11:16 am on August 22nd, 2010
Hey Kayne, I agree with your comment 100% but the SEC already has a lock on jail and prison “talent”.
11:25 am on August 22nd, 2010
Wow, he loses a tv show, a radio show, gets a felony, all because is chick probably was not following simple directions.
Talk about punishment not fitting the crime. Give him a break, you know she deserved it.
11:28 am on August 22nd, 2010
They put Damon Huard on College Football Live…I mean, c-mon, I am insulted they think I care about that talentless NFL failure has to say, It’s bad enough we have to listen to The Bachelor on that show as well….
12:00 pm on August 22nd, 2010
Glad to see Mariotti is gone, now get rid of that other know it all blowhard Colin Cowherd.
12:36 pm on August 22nd, 2010
i thought he was Gay
1:28 pm on August 22nd, 2010
That fact that ESPN is ACTUALLY thinking about promoting Jalen Rose to a radio gig and a possible more visible slot tells you all you have to know about the talent level at ESPN these days.
4:23 pm on August 22nd, 2010
What the first 58 guys said.
Even that coach handbag guy.
10:37 am on August 23rd, 2010
Hope he doesn’t “BEAT” the rap!!!
10:20 am on August 24th, 2010
i was hoping this was a story of Beadle punching Cowherd.
8:56 am on August 26th, 2010
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12:00 pm on August 26th, 2010
Hopefully that ignorant, arrogant blatant black racist Michael J. Smith follows in his footsteps. If anyone has ever heard Smith say something positive about a white person or athlete, please post it. A black person could kill 20 people and this asshole Smith would find some reason to exonerate the black and blame it on the white race. W ah. Wah. Whine Hater! Racist! No. Truth.
12:40 pm on August 26th, 2010
Wasn’t Marv Albert’s career over, too?
6:47 am on August 30th, 2010
Hey.. Flint need what it can get. If Andre has his stuff together than who better to teach the kids with his talent and also to tell them what not to do? And attorney fees?? Randall Kessler isn’t missing dinner okay. He’s a superlawyer here in Atlanta.. I’m sure he can sue a trucking company, or some other big company and make his blood money.
6:14 pm on October 6th, 2010
“Wasn’t Marv Albert’s career over, too?”
Marv actually has talent.
10:36 am on October 18th, 2010
Its typical of the racist a@@ network ESPN. They will trash any black athlete, let allow their own go get away without hardly a mention. This loud-mouth Marioti always trashes blacks and now he gets a free-pass. Will some other network start covering sports, so I can eliminate ESPN from my list.
2:56 am on January 28th, 2011
thanks for the share
1:55 am on April 11th, 2011
I’m sure he can sue a trucking company, or some other big company and make his blood money.
1:50 am on June 16th, 2011
Sounds like he’ll be hosting a show on msnbc before we know it.
3:39 am on June 22nd, 2011
Never liked this guy he is a scumbag.Cancel his 15 minute of fame.
8:30 pm on August 9th, 2011
He’s a pr— and deserves to be thrown under the bus like he throws everybody else!!
3:42 am on August 15th, 2011
good points.
9:19 pm on September 3rd, 2011
They will trash any black athlete, let allow their own go get away without hardly a mention. This loud-mouth Marioti always trashes blacks and now he gets a free-pass. Will some other network start covering sports, so I can eliminate ESPN from my list.
4:40 am on September 7th, 2011
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7:30 pm on January 3rd, 2012
Hey.. Flint need what it can get. If Andre has his stuff together than who better to teach the kids with his talent and also to tell them what not to do? And attorney fees?? Randall Kessler isn’t missing dinner okay.