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ESPN's Jay Mariotti pleads no contest in LA to misdemeanor in incident with female companion

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's office says ESPN personality Jay Mariotti has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery count stemming from an August incident involving a female companion.

City attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan says Mariotti was sentenced Thursday to 36 months of probation, community service and a domestic violence course.

Mariotti was originally charged with seven counts, but Mateljan says all other counts were dismissed.

A statement issued by Mariotti's attorney says they were confident of prevailing at trial but it would have been long and expensive. The statement claims Mariotti was the victim of false and exaggerated allegations stemming from a public argument.


The last thing I've heard from ESPN was "we have no plans to use him at this time"

 

I wonder if race is a factor in Charles Barkley's round-the-clock criticism of LeBron's summer conduct

 

I mentioned this in the college basketball thread already, but it fits very well here, too. Before the Duke-Kansas State game, ESPN had a caption on about Coach K having 699 career wins... he was actually at 872 in that category. It should have been 799, not 699, and should have specified "at Duke", not career.

Also, @ the ESPN commentator the other day who was talking about the "4 loss South Carolina team" (in football)... yeah, last time I checked South Carolina had only 3 losses, not 4. They might be a 4 loss team if they lose to Clemson or Auburn in the next couple weeks, because both will be tough games, but not yet. And when that is a significant part of your argument, please at least try to get your facts straight.

 

That's pretty bad considering their own site has them listed with only three losses.

 

For the Coach K thing, they might have verbally slipped up a couple times, but the graphic showed the number of wins at one school.


But the South Carolina thing is pretty bad.

 

I think they had another graphic on Coach K that was correct. But the one I saw up while they were discussing the game when it was about to tip was just plain wrong.

 

I guess we just caught it at different parts of the game.

 

Maybe they corrected it after realizing how badly wrong it was

 

I suppose that's possible. The Elias Sports Bureau probably called them up. Either that, or Seth Davis called 'em out on Twitter.

 

ESPN just referred to SportsCenter as "NewtonCenter." I don't think I need to say any more.

 

On the other hand, at least it's not Favre or the Heat 24/7.

 

Seriously, how is "did not practice today, may or may not practice tomorrow" something worth talking about for 15+ minutes?

 

I have no idea.

 

Ok, ESPN has declared 2011 to be the "Year of the Quarterback."

What the heck? Don't you have to, say, wait and see how QBs perform in 2011? Or something like that?

 

You would think, R...J. Good old ESPN...

 

On ESPN, retired players have great years

 

Swing and a miss.

 

Inty, you beat me to it.


lol @ ESPN


ATH and PTI did talk about MLS (specifically the Timber's home opener) today, so that makes them a bit better, but not much.

 

lol

ESPN World Club Soccer Power Rankings

Yup. They ranked RSL in the top ten.

 

lol. At least they were ranked number 10, if they had to be on that list. Still, they're certainly not the 10th best club team in the world. Are they really better than all of the CONMEBOL clubs? I really don't think so.

 

I'll take that, or anything really, over "FavreCenter"

 

I wonder if MLS paid them for that. Brutal.

 

The sad thing is that ESPN is one of the biggest things helping to hold MLS down. They treat it like a low 5th tier minor league. They never give it the respect it deserves, and now they do this mockery of a ranking.

 

Seriously. The MLS ALL-Stars can't beat European club teams, and a MLS club team is in a top ten on the planet?

 

I guess it depends on whether its better to be a good team in a bad league, or an average team in a good league.