By: E&P Staff Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Jay Mariotti returned to the pages of the paper Tuesday after a month-long vacation that followed the furor over remarks Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen made about him.
Also Tuesday, the Sun-Times announced Mariotti had agreed to a three-year contract extension. The paper said his column would continue to run four days a week.
"We're delighted that we've got Jay locked in," Sun-times Editor in Chief John Barron said in the newspaper.
"I look forward to helping the Sun-Times remain Chicago's best sports section and a cutting-edge must read in a thriving sports town," Mariotti told the paper.
In his first column back, Mariotti was his usual combative self, ripping White Sox General Manager Ken Williams for letting the Major League Baseball trading deadline pass without making a deal for any players. He mentioned only in passing Ozzie Guillen, who was ordered by the baseball commissioner to take "sensitivity" classes for calling Mariotti a "f------ fag" in a locker room harangue.
While his column did not appear in the Sun-Times during the announced vacation, Mariotti himself appeared regularly on the ESPN sports-talk show "Around the Horn."
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