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
One time after one of these long trips, my wife and I had been separated for a long time and I called her and said, 'Baby, you better meet me at the gate with a mattress, ... And she goes, 'You better be the first guy off that plane.'
I'm happy because I'm not in Detroit. I never have to live in Detroit.
Joe Kay isn't half as quick of feet or brain as the old one,
And you know who lets them get away with lying? ... Baseball writers. Hardly any Hall of Fame voters have the (guts) to stand up and say, 'These guys cheated. I'm not voting them into the Hall of Fame.'
They look like they had a wonderful time at Circuit City. They spent $700 there.
And here he was, a junior walk-on place-kicker whose sore leg had kept him out of practice for three weeks, standing 29 yards from never having to buy another beer in the state of Iowa.
College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.
The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.
Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.
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.
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.