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Ricky Reilly, Billy Simmons, And The Follies Of Privileged Sportswriting

This is BALLS DEEP With Big Daddy Drew (Balls® is a registered trademark and has been used with the expressed written consent of AJ Daulerio). It's gonna be like an SI Point After column, only with dick jokes. Enjoy.

By now, you've noticed the motto of this fair website is "Sports news without access, favor, or discretion." And, if you've read Leitch's book (31 used and new from just $14!), you know why he chose that exact phrasing. The inherent catch-22 of a sportswriter's job lies in access. You can't brutally criticize athletes and expect them to give you any access. But, if you go the other way and soften your treatment of athletes in order to maintain access, then you end up looking like a jocksniffer (Hi, Stephen A.!).

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3:00 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Big Daddy Drew
27,818 views, 106 comments

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When Internet Browsers Devour Amazing Prose About Rick Reilly

Oh my sweet God. I had a really, really poignant article about Rick Reilly, the movie Leatherheads, and more thoughts on his comments about bloggers. Then of course, Firefox just had to crash at that very moment in history. More »

5:00 PM on Sun Apr 6 2008
By sussman
12,541 views, 385 comments

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Rick Reilly's Borscht Belt Hilarity Now Targeting Bloggers

We have a hard time getting fired up about this stuff anymore, but if you're looking for more enlightening commentary on new media from an "established" sportswriter — and a screenwriter (kind of) — let's take a listen to impending omnipresent ESPN commentator Rick Reilly. More »

3:15 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Leitch
11,973 views, 114 comments

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Media Approval Ratings: Rick Reilly

You might know this already, but in case you don't: Rick Reilly, late of Sports Illustrated and soon to be everywhere on ESPN to justify that enormous contract, is one of the co-writers of Leatherheads, that new George Clooney movie that's opening Friday. Supposedly Clooney had to dramatically rewrite the (old) script, but whatever: Let's see you write a George Clooney movie. More »

1:35 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Leitch
10,899 views, 76 comments

Rick Reilly's 50th birthday party, sung to the tune of Me And Bobby McGee. [Deuce Of Davenport]

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Rick Reilly Makes Eight Times As Much Money As Jonathan Papelbon

As Sussman put it, ESPN filled its "Badly Needed Smart-Alecky Middle-Aged White Guy Quota" by hiring Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly, who filed his last SI column a couple of weeks ago. He won't start until June 1 of next year, which should give him plenty of time to hone those "multimedia" skills. We knew he was making a lot of money over there, but it appears we had no idea. More »

4:40 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Leitch
17,262 views, 75 comments

"With Rick joining Bill Simmons, our readers will now enjoy the two best sports columnists anywhere." [ESPN]

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ESPN Fills Badly Needed Smart-Alecky Middle-Aged White Guy Quota

A couple days ago, Boss casually wondered how Rick Reilly would handle working alongside Dan Patrick at Sports Illustrated. I suppose taking his old job is the logical reaction. More »

2:10 PM on Sat Oct 20 2007
By sussman
11,553 views, 33 comments

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Rick Reilly Gets Shirtless And Sweaty For His Art

Who's that handsome shirtless man sweating like Aaron Altman? Why, that's Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly, who, in another of his wacky journalistic stunts, entered the World Sauna Championships in Finland this weekend.

The rules were simple: Stay in a sauna as long as you can. It must have been pretty hot in there, because the winner stayed in for ... 12 minutes.

Reilly was not the winner of the event, but you'll surely be reading about it in SI's pages sometime in the next month. (On second thought, you probably won't, unless you're desperate to hear that Robert Fick's summer reading is Playboy magazine and that he's "dying" to hang out with Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.)

In any case, expect many riffs!

Competitors Flock To Finland To See How Long They Can Stand Being In A Sauna With Rick Reilly [FanIQ]

5:35 PM on Tue Aug 7 2007
By Leitch
12,807 views, 969 comments

we totally own that same outfit!

Come See Rick Reilly Make Armpit Noises

We've encouraged you to come to the Varsity Letters Reading Series in New York before, but if you come to tonight's endeavor, you'll be in for a special treat. (Depending on how you define "special.") The headlining reader is Sports Illustrated columnist/stand-up comic Rick Reilly. (Donald Evans and Rus Bradburd are on the bill as well.) Reilly is as big a name in this little world of sports-dork writing as you'll find, particularly when he dresses up like a woman. In preparation for the reading, he talked to Gelf about how ESPN steals all his stories. More »

2:45 PM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Leitch
1,522 views, 51 comments

Latest by Blackaces: @SwankyMode: Ha I stand corrected. Booyah! more »

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Rick Reilly's Wide-Eyed Reaction Shots

Back in April, we told you about "The Beer Belly," a contraption that allowed you to sneak beer into stadiums through a fake beer gut. You would then drink there beer through a tube, or something like that. More »

12:45 PM on Thu Jun 29 2006
By Leitch
369 views, 26 comments

sports illustrated

Rick Reilly And His Rimshot

Honestly, we have nothing against Sports Illustrated superstar Rick Reilly. Sure, he mails it in seemingly twice a month, his sudden conversation to an anti-steroid advocate seems to only go for people not named Bill Romanowski and we have no idea what that "Riffs Of Reilly" thing is supposed to be about. But when Reilly is on his game, as rare as he is these days, he still can wipe the floor with most other columnists. We still read him every week, just in case he decided to turn it on. We're usually left wanting. More »

1:45 PM on Mon Jun 5 2006
By Leitch
1,097 views, 19 comments

Latest by Unsilent Majority: "Pictures like that are why I stopped dressing in drag." quitters never win more »

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Sports Ilustrated's Yearly Flirtation With DANGER!

Well, the Super Bowl is over, which means it's that time of year again: Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Edition is out. Like any plugged-in American, we have plenty of other avenues for our occasional need for women lacking clothing, so we always approach the SI swimsuit edition with bemusement; it's the side-boob shots you can claim to your wife you were sent by accident! This '50s snigger-snigger attitude wears on us, though, to be fair, when we were 13, we looked forward to the swimsuit edition with something resembling rabid mania. More »

4:30 PM on Tue Feb 14 2006
By Leitch
2,048 views, 18 comments

Latest by BostonKelli: I don't know Damit...I'd still be BostonKelli in my heart. Christ, most of my User IDs still have Nomar in the name - now that's what you call loyalty. Seriously though, for now I think I'm leaning toward staying...because I more »

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Rick Reilly IS Big. It's The Screens That Got Small

As an apparent response to ESPN Mobile's aggressive, we-will-destroy-you-resistance-is-futile push for ESPN Mobile, Sports Illustrated — whose swimsuit issue comes out this week, by the way — has signed up head alpha dog columnist Rick Reilly to do a weekly three-minute video exlusively for Verizon VCAST subscribers. Well, that's exclusively for VCAST subscribers for a 24-hour window, after which the video is unleashed upon an unsuspecting populace. More »

12:00 PM on Mon Feb 13 2006
By Leitch
529 views, 12 comments

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Bill Romanowski, Workout FREAK

After uncovering the groundbreaking scoop that Ricky Williams likes to smoke pot, "60 Minutes" this weekend talks to former Bronco Bill Romanowski about his steroid abuse. Yep: Romanowski used to take steroids. This, by our count, is about the fourth time Romanowski has "confessed" to steroid use; last time he did it to promote a movie, an act we actually found somewhat resourceful. More »

12:14 PM on Fri Oct 14 2005
By Leitch
1,017 views

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How Much For That Bayless Column In The Window?

So we hadn't visited our old friends at The New York Times on the Web in a while, so we thought we'd log in. We're kind fond of George Vecsey, and we find Selena Roberts quite hot.

But on our way inside, we were stopped at the door by a large, sweaty, metaphorical security guard. "May I see your invitation?" he asked politely. We tried to talk our way in, but got the bum's rush, ending up in a heap on the sidewalk. Yes, the Times now has subscription-based content. Called Times Select, they offer features and columns by Vecsey, Roberts, Harvey Araton and a few others for $49.95 per year, or $7.95 month-to-month. It's not the money — just all the typing involved.

But it's only the beginning. The online trend, say most analysts (and by "analysts" we mean "a guy we know who fixes our computer"), is going to soon lead to micropayments. So instead of paying a flat fee for Times Select, or ESPN Insider, you will pay a fee per article — say, 29 cents for William C. Rhoden's latest column. This will be done through micropayment companies such as Peppercoin or PayPal.

This of course will end the debate, once and for all, as to what writers are worth. We'd pay 99 cents for Tom Boswell, sure. Scott Ostler's column, a bargain at 49 cents. SI.com has a special today on Rick Reilly, three columns for $1. The Around the Horn guys are a steal; we've got a large backlog of Woody Paige columns and they're priced to go at 5 cents each, like those giant cardboard pallets of Arrowhead water you see at the supermarket. More »

11:46 AM on Wed Sep 28 2005
By Leitch
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Kiper Currently Ranking Him No. 8 Halfback In His Class


That's Bobby Martin, a special teams player for a Toledo high school and focus of a column by SI's Rick Reilly this week. We haven't seen the story yet, but we really hope it's not another of Rick's "participatory journalism" pieces. Just saying. More »

10:42 AM on Wed Sep 28 2005
By Leitch
229 views

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Stuart Scott Could Be Yours For $25 Grand (Plus Shipping!)

$25,000. More »