Guillen Utters Defamatory Slur About Reporter
21st June, 2006 - 8:03 pm
ESPN.com - White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen referred to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti as a derogatory name for a homosexual in a media scrum on Tuesday.

Guillen was upset with a recent Mariotti column critical of his treatment of relief pitcher Sean Tracey.

Guillen said to reporters when referring to Mariotti before Tuesday's game with the Cardinals, "What a piece of [expletive] he is, [expletive] f*g."

Guillen was defensive when asked about the statement and said that in his native Venezuela, that word is not a reference to a person's sexuality. [READ]

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