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Inside the mind of Ozzie Guillen

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Thursday, June 22, 2006

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen usually is entertainingly frank, but he got himself in trouble this week when he called Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti a "----ing fag." Ozzie defended his comment by saying that he has nothing against gays -- he said he goes to WNBA games -- and that the term doesn't mean the same thing in his native country as it does in the United States. Wednesday night, he apologized for using the word "fag" but didn't back off Mariotti, calling him a "piece of ----. ...

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