Before his downward spiral, Jay Mariotti was most well known for his role as a panelist on ESPN’s Around The Horn. Following his arrest, ESPN and Mariotti parted ways, and it was hard to fathom future involving Mariotti and ESPN in tandem. But Father Time heals all, according to Jay Mariotti, because, according to Jay Mariotti, he’s been afforded and opportunity to dabble in freelance storytelling for ESPN.

Bill Plaschke, sports columnist for the LA Times who is somehow popular enough to deserve a check mark on Twitter and a frequent guest on ESPN’s Around The Horn, was at it again on yesterday’s show making sensational predictions about the Yankees-Tigers Game 3 ALCS showdown.

A few weeks ago, Bill Plaschke was caught with his hand in the cookie jar, trying to sweet talk Jack MacMullan on “Behind the Horn.” For those who don’t know, “Behind the Horn” is a series of YouTube-only clips capturing funny, off-air Around the Horn moments.

Well, unfortunately for Bomani Jones (but fortunately for us), the veteran LA Times scribe was back to being the MVP of this little segment today.

Today in, Bill Plaschke acting incredibly awkward and trying to get Jackie MacMullan to sleep with him…

Packers receiver Donald Driver won Dancing with the Stars last night. It’s true. And upon learning he’d won, well, Driver went pretty nuts. How nuts? Nuts enough that a couple Around the Horn panelists looked genuinely alarmed.

Every day, Around the Horn posts some web extras of some of the more interesting interactions that took place among Tony Reali and the panelists while they weren’t actually taping the show. Today, one of those centered around Kobe Bryant and being an asshole, and it was outstanding.

A while back, we had a post here highlighting some of the most injury-mangled fingers from around the sports world – appendages that bend in all sorts of unnatural ways sometimes unfit for the squeamish to see. Well, earlier today, we got something to consider for future lists of the same sort… only this one didn’t happen to an athlete.

In behind-the-scenes footage from Wednesday’s “Around The Horn,” Denver Post columnist Woody Paige is caught talking to and befriending a robot parrot.

The former Around The Horn contributor is accused of felony assault and stalking.

A monologue about a German NBA Finals MVP and an Irish U.S. Open winner led to Woody Paige freaking out a little bit today.