Rick Reilly leaving SI for ESPN

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 20, 2007 4:00 PM CDT in News

Long-time SI writer Rick Reilly is leaving at the end of November, and will join ESPN in June, 2008, after his non-compete runs out.

Be interesting to see what Reilly does. I really enjoyed his articles and features in the late-80s and early-90s, when he focused on football and golf (the only two sports he really seemed to like). He was my favorite sportswriter for a while.

But once he went into the "Life of Reilly," back-page columnist role for SI, he seemed to get too treacly and preachy, and I've quit reading him, for the most part.

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he's a hell of a writer

but i consistently an example of a writer that too often becomes part of the story or is the story. a lot of times in his column you'd also see him being real lazy. i guess he can't always write amazing pieces though. sports illustrated losing him will be a big loss. i know of the 6 years i was a subscriber, the last 3 was only for the Life of Reily column. a ton of us readers would read the back page first.

Al Gore 2008 http://www.myspace.com/igotsculture

by gossamer on Oct 20, 2007 3:56 PM CDT 0 recs