Rick Reilly
by Adam J. Morris on Aug 17, 2008 2:16 PM CDT
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PrintOnce upon a time, Rick Reilly was a really good sportswriter.
Then he got that gig on the back page of SI, and stopped writing stories, and started getting all human-interesty.
And has now gone to ESPN and is doing the same. Here's what I just saw on ESPN's front page:
National Voice: Rick Reilly
Did a guy with no arms and legs recently pass you in a triathlon? Don't worry. Craig Dietz lives to compete.
I have to assume that, sometime in the late-90s, Rick Reilly got some career advice from Kent Brockman, because his column has turned into a print version of "Bart's People."
Sigh.
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Zork? What's Zork?
I didn’t say Zork.
Oh, and that’s also the Mojo episode.
Pray. For. Mojo.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
That
was my initial thought when I remembered the episode. There’s something hysterical about an overweight monkey typing that sentence into a computer.
Plaschke: Scioscia, the former Dodgers catcher, is the model manager who has created an atmosphere of winning.
Junior:It's that simple. Mike Scioscia brings a Glade Plug-In labeled "Winning™" into the clubhouse and everyone who breathes it in gains 15 points in average.
i used to love reilly
i think about the time he was harassing sammy sosa for a drug test is when i started disliking him for trying to hard to become the story.
or maybe it was when he got the exclusive of jordan coming back to the nba for a 2nd time.
http://www.buchanan4pres2008.org/
NIXON: NOW MORE THAN EVER
Fluff, fluff and more fluff
that’s what he is now.
"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005
Reilly
I think Reilly’s columns are pretty astute actually. He does delve into the sentimental on occasion but he also is a very good prophetic voice regarding the hypocrisy of sport. While the rest of the journalists were licking Sosa and McGwire’s balls, Reilly was asking Sosa about steroids. He also had a great column up on the hypocrisy of some athlete’s Christian faiths without haranguing Christianity itself. I miss him on the back page of SI and his nothin’ but nets campaign was brilliant and far more valuable to civilization than anything any other sports journalist has done lately.
Fire Ron Washington
Quite honestly...
…Rick Reilly was a huge influence on me getting into sportswriting. His writing ability is pretty much second to none.
But now, he’s a shell of his former self. He’s resorted to the “human interest” stories as his crutch, and it’s like he can’t find his former self. It’s really sad. Now, he’s everything I am trying to avoid being: one-dimensional, over-dramatic, under-achieving.
"One man, five scoops." -- shroomer
Sports writing
I was a sports writer in one of my other lives, and one of two things happens to most good writers. You get tired of it, because all the silliness and hyperbole does wear on you after a while, and go on to do something else. Or you do what Reilly and so many locals do — turn into cheerleaders, tell everyone how you hang with the athletes, and sound very serious pontificating about backup left tackles on sports radio.
Where is Mick Kelleher when we need him?
"And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords"
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
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