CHICAGO - EBERT SLAMS FORMER SUN-TIMES SPORTS COLUMNIST

EBERT SLAMS FORMER SUN-TIMES SPORTS COLUMNIST

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has fired a broadside against the newspaper's most prominent sports columnist, Jay Mariotti, following Mariotti's resignation earlier this week. "What an ugly way to leave the Sun-Times, " Ebert wrote in an open letter to Mariotti. "Your timing was exquisite. You signed a new contract, waited until days after the newspaper had paid for your trip to Beijing at great cost, and then resigned with a two-word e-mail 'I quit.' ... The fact that you saved your attack for TV only completes our portrait of you as a rat." And Ebert, in a final shot, signed off with this advice to his former colleague "On the way out, don't let the door bang you on the ass."

29/08/2008