Romenesko

Chicago Magazine
"Take your shots at me," Sun-Times sports columnist Jay Mariotti encourages his colleagues. "All you're doing is making me more famous." Dirk Johnson says Mariotti has rankled colleagues from the beginning of his career. "They'll tell you that I didn't pay my dues," says the columnist. "They'll say, Who the hell are you?" The Tribune's Rick Morrissey tells Johnson: "I can't imagine how it is to be him. Having so many people angry at you. Being so angry yourself."