Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly
Richard Paul "Rick" Reillyis an American sportswriter. Long known for being the "back page" columnist for Sports Illustrated, Reilly moved to ESPN on June 1, 2008, where he was a featured columnist for ESPN.com and wrote the back page column for ESPN the Magazine. Reilly hosted ESPN’s Homecoming with Rick Reilly, an interview show, and he is a contributing essayist for ESPN SportsCenter and ABC Sports...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 February 1958
CountryUnited States of America
A man is more than his failings.
It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.
Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.
Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.
I mean, c'mon, ... Yeah, 'It's a sport. Let's kill a rabbit.' Let's not call that a sport. I actually heard a guy go, 'I never apologize to the kill. I thank him for the contest.'