No Days With Jay?

Last Wednesday, Jay Mariotti published a column going over the resolution of the Scott Skiles fiasco. Now, I know what you are saying. "Who is Scott Skiles?" As hard as it is to believe, there is a professional basketball league and Scott Skiles is the coach of the Chicago team. Rumor has it that the championship series for the league is going on right now, but there seems to be no evidence of this via the local TV or newspapers.

Anyway, back to Jay. In that column Jay said that Skiles, "(met) downtown with Reinsdorf, face to face, without his agent." That's a bold statement in stating for a fact something about a meeting at which Jay was certainly not present.

Turns out, everyone is now denying that such a meeting took place. Jerry Reinsdorf went so far as to call Jay a liar. Jay threatened to sue Jerry with the taunt of "(he'll) be hearing from my lawyer."

Jay usually pens a column just about every day. Even Saturday's, a day when most people don't get the paper. In fact, going back to May 16th, Jay's only missed filing on two days: Saturday, May 28th and Saturday, June 4th.

Funny thing. Since his piece on Skiles, Jay's been MIA.

It certainly looks like he's been suspended. Could we Chicagoans somehow be lucky enough to be rid of Jay? And do we need a new verb to describe what's happened to Jay? I'd suggest "Albomed."