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Josh Levin's Fascination With Rick Reilly's Tooth Jokes Is Oddly Captivating

When I initially took over this site there was a lot of discussion amongst former and current editors about doing a weekly feature devoted entirely to Rick Reilly's ESPN column. It would be too easy to just pick apart it's contents FJM-style (R.I.P), but given his hubris, his enormous contract, and the thinly-veiled penis-showing contest he had with "blogger" Bill Simmons, he seemed entirely deserving of some sort of weekly takedown. One reader actually submitted a pretty clever idea early in the summer, which was just to keep a running list of Reilly's out-of-date references in each of his columns. His initial list went as follows: Johnny Unitas, The Taco Bell Chihuahua (!), Mike Tyson, Scottie Pippen, Jack Clark. Leitch's idea to add up the words at the end of the year to see how much his per-word rate was pretty good as well. But then there's this Slate story by Josh Levin about Reilly's overuse of tooth-oriented jokes that is just so insanely inspired, it makes all other past and future ideas seem incredibly bland. More »

5:15 PM on Tue Dec 2 2008
By DAULERIO
3,904 views, 50 comments

Most discussed The KB: And THAT'S the tooth! /lisa needs braces more »

Media Meltdowns

Everybody Talks to Barack Obama Except Bill Simmons

Remember last spring when America's Sports Fella, Bill Simmons, staged a passive-aggressive mutiny on his employer over "promises not kept" stemming from when Sen. Barack Obama was dropped from his podcast? Maybe you do. So, those of you who do remember that were probably thinking to yourselves, "Hey, Rick Reilly's got a mag article this month featuring Barack Obama — Simmmons MUST BE PISSSSSSED." More »

1:15 PM on Fri Oct 24 2008
By DAULERIO
16,101 views, 63 comments

Most discussed I Heart Poop: I'd kinda like to see McCain on a hunting show where they give him a gun and watch him flashback more »

Media Meltdowns

Reilly's Column Not Edited For Creepy Sleaziness, But For Out Of Touch Lameness

Yesterday, we received an email about Rick Reilly's latest column on America's chances in the upcoming Ryder Cup, where he gives a list of reasons as to how Paul Azinger's Tiger-less squad could actually win this year's event. It's the usual Reilly-on-golf effort (probably his strongest subject) and it's mildly entertaining if you're into that sort of thing. However, the tipster pointed out an interesting edit to the piece that occurred during the day:

I don't know if this is relevant or not to you guys but ... I'm pretty sure the last line in Reilly's column this morning was "or I'll tongue bathe the Queen Mother". It has since been edited to "or I'll tongue bathe Windsor castle". Seems an oblique reference to cunnilingus was removed sometime throughout the day. More »

11:30 AM on Thu Sep 18 2008
By DAULERIO
14,886 views, 72 comments

Most discussed Laser Guided: "-greatest shocker since Lyle Lovett married Julia Roberts-like Velveeta recipes-too easy and too cheesy-This is a mistake the size of more »

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You Know You Should Probably Stop Writing When You Plagiarize Rick Reilly

That's exactly what Everett Daily Herald writer John Sleeper did with his June 3rd column, "Trust Me, Coaching Girls Is A Whole New Ballgame", which has since been removed and replaced with this apology letter from the paper's executive editor. More »

1:45 PM on Fri Aug 1 2008
By DAULERIO
8,639 views, 35 comments

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The True Life Of Reilly

Rick Reilly is a very successful man who's made a career out of being a co-mingling hanger-on well before it was a standard media practice. As a columnist, he's always come off as the zany features reporter over at your local television newscast. Even when he puts on his serious face, like when he writes about a handicapped polo-playing teenager and his relationship with his cancer-riddled father (his real coach in life!) or whatever, you get the sense he wrote it just so he could have a few teary-eyed readers hug him on the street. One of the best descriptions I've ever heard about him was when a friend of mine ran into him at some golf tournament a few years ago and said he was genuinely nice, but "he comes off like a guy who really, really wishes he wrote the screenplay for Fletch." That works. More »

3:30 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By DAULERIO
16,338 views, 96 comments

Latest by shawnkempskids: @Crookednose: I am a big hoops fan and he delivers every time with those NBA columns...even the ones that don't focus more »

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There's Something Salvageable In Rick Reilly's Craft

Yes, he's smug and overpaid. His commentary in the Home Run Derby was rather cringeworthy, and he just doesn't seem to fit on camera. Having said all that, Rick Reilly's slam poetry session on the British Open had moments of brilliance, and other times moments of anguish. More »

12:45 PM on Sun Jul 20 2008
By Matt Sussman
3,600 views, 18 comments

Latest by The Stephen A. Smith Heckling Society of Gentlemen: @1980 David Bowie From The Music Video Ashes To Ashes: He does some stuff here, apparently: [www.steverushin.com] more »

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Rick Reilly Is Stealing My Material

Rick Reilly uses the celebrity washroom.

It's conveniently located down a short flight of stairs just off of the main dining room at Edgewood Tahoe, which was the host course of last weekend's American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. If a spectator or a lowly journalist attempts to use the washroom, he is shooed away by two muscular security guards. Only the likes of Tony Romo, Ray Romano and, yes, Rick Reilly, are allowed to use it. More »

12:30 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Rick Chandler
14,796 views, 83 comments

Dumb Media Feuds

Rick Reilly Continues To Not Think Too Highly Of That Billy Simmons Kid

The roiling tensions between Bill Simmons and newly-acquired superstar Rick Reilly had seemed to be more media created than anything else, but more and more it appears the two just absolutely despise each other. More »

5:45 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By DAULERIO
36,118 views, 71 comments

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Bill Simmons Still Comfortable With Rick Reilly Hanging Around

All the sports news came from Boston last night, so hey: Why not keep piling on and play with some sports media news from Boston too? How could one ever get tired of Boston, right? Right? Who's with us? More »

11:10 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Will Leitch
24,775 views, 100 comments

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Welcome To Internet Land, Mr. Reilly

Well, everybody's favorite paid-more-than-a-middle-infielder columnist made his debut today, and it's a nice little column ... about Rick Reilly. As far as Look, ESPN Readers, I'm Here! columns go, it's a step above Jemele Hill's — whom we still like — and a few steps behind Simmons' epic "Is Roger Clemens the Antichrist?" piece from 2001. (Which was not technically his debut, but still kinda counts.) But Reilly brought out the big guns in the first piece, which will make the inevitable mailing-it-in Reilly Specials over the next few weeks a little more tolerable. More »

4:15 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Will Leitch
8,875 views, 76 comments

Latest by muggsybogues: here, here. more »

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