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  • moe_42
    Rookie
    • Mar 2008
    • 196

    #1

    Rick Reilly

    I got into Rick Reilly's <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/archives/rick_reilly/">archives</a href> for the zillionth time, and my mind started boggling at the concept of anyone, let alone a sports fan, disliking the guy.

    So I'm curious to know if any of you on OS don't care for him or his writing, and any reasoning you may have.
  • LiquidCrash
    All Star
    • Jul 2002
    • 6066

    #2
    Re: Rick Reilly

    SI hasn't been the same without him. I always looked forward to his column every week and now I rarely even look at that page.

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    • sportznut02
      The buzz is palpable now!
      • Dec 2004
      • 8064

      #3
      Re: Rick Reilly

      loved Riley`s columns. you should give a couple of his books a try i enjoyed Who`s Your Caddy, Shanks For Nothing, Hate Mail For Cheerleaders was good to
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      • CPMax
        Rookie
        • Mar 2005
        • 69

        #4
        Re: Rick Reilly

        Reilly is the the prime reason I kept subscribing to Sports Illustrated. As a sports journalist I look up to his writing tremendously.

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        • moe_42
          Rookie
          • Mar 2008
          • 196

          #5
          Re: Rick Reilly

          Yeah, he was the reason I went into journalism, too.

          C'mon, there has to be <b>somebody</b> out there that doesn't like him.

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          • Chaos81
            Hall Of Fame
            • Mar 2004
            • 17150

            #6
            Re: Rick Reilly

            Originally posted by CPMax
            Reilly is the the prime reason I kept subscribing to Sports Illustrated.
            Same here, and he's also the reason I no longer have a subscription to SI.

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            • jerseyboi2284
              Pro
              • Apr 2005
              • 910

              #7
              Re: Rick Reilly

              I also looked up to him as a journalist.....Also let my SI run its course without the renewal.

              So uh....pretty influential guy eh?

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              • moe_42
                Rookie
                • Mar 2008
                • 196

                #8
                Re: Rick Reilly

                This is like looking for virgins in a sorority.

                <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/magazine/life_of_reilly/news/1999/12/21/life_of_reilly/">Here's</a href> a good column I just read by him.

                Not gonna lie, I got a little misty.

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                • sva91
                  MVP
                  • Feb 2005
                  • 2019

                  #9
                  Re: Rick Reilly

                  I havent read much of his stuff for a couple of years now, but for me he was hit or miss. His stuff was usually good, but he sometimes came across as a bit condescending. I think it was him bashing soccer that made me dislike him, and also him telling Sosa to pee in a cup was ridiculously insulting. It still blows my mind how Americans can bash soccer, but still love nascar.

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                  • ndeezlo
                    Fum police
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 3272

                    #10
                    Re: Rick Reilly

                    I hate him.

                    He writes the same story 4 or 5 times a year.
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                    • CMH
                      Making you famous
                      • Oct 2002
                      • 26203

                      #11
                      Re: Rick Reilly

                      Originally posted by sva91
                      It still blows my mind how Americans can bash soccer, but still love nascar.
                      Yew don't lik watching da cars turn left. `n` left. `n` left.
                      "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

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                      • mjb2124
                        Hall Of Fame
                        • Aug 2002
                        • 13649

                        #12
                        Re: Rick Reilly

                        I really enjoyed Reilly as well. SI hasn't been the same and it's always disappointing turning to the last page and reading some other random crap instead of a nice article by Reilly.

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