Rick Reilly

Rick Reilly

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Rick Reilly, an award-winning columnist and author who is best known for his popular Sports Illustrated column, Life of Reilly, joined ESPN as the back-page columnist for ESPN The Magazine and as a regular columnist for ESPN.com in June 2008.

Check out Homecoming, Rick Reilly's new hour-long series on ESPN in which he travels back with athletes to their hometowns for a visit and conversation.

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The choice is clear

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly explains why choosing between the Saints and the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV isn't as easy a decision as it should be for the Manning family.

Story | February 1, 2010

The misbehavior of athletes

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly explains how athletes misbehaving is just a matter of perspective.

Story | January 26, 2010

The end is near

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly spends some time with Kurt Warner and discusses the possiblity of retirement.

Story | January 19, 2010

The Ravens' (very) secret weapon

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

You're 14 years old. You've got cancer. And your team asks for your help. Rick Reilly tells of an amazing Ravens fan.

Story | January 14, 2010

One death can mean two losses

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly examines the life and death of dear friends Mike Penner and Christine Daniels, two Los Angeles sportswriters who were actually the same person.

Story | January 11, 2010

Leading the charge

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

In his Jan. 6, 2010 online column, Rick Reilly wonders -- seriously, what does Norv Turner need to do to get some respect around here? Three AFC West titles, people! Hottest team entering the AFC playoffs, friends! C'mon. Respect the Norv.

Story | January 6, 2010

Holiday jeer

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly writes a poem commemorating all of the subpar QBs who played for the New Orleans Saints over the years.

Story | December 23, 2009

Tiger Slam II continues to sizzle

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly's last online column of 2009 looks at one of the year's biggest stories: the Tiger Woods scandal. Reilly addresses 10 new questions on the topic and shows us some of his reader mail about it (a bit of it is, well, heated).

Story | December 22, 2009

The bottom line

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

As Rick Reilly notes in his latest column for ESPN The Magazine, if you want the real game story you should check the closed captioning.

Story | December 14, 2009

An image-rehab plan for Tiger Woods

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly, a longtime surveyor of the golf world, proposes how Tiger Woods can best repair his image in light of the past few weeks' events.

Story | December 9, 2009

Why I love my job

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

In his latest column, Rick Reilly explores the reasons that he became a sportswriter.

Story | November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving comes early

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

In Rick Reilly's pre-Thanksgiving 2009 column, he writes of Perry Hogsten -- a 52-year-old trucker down on his luck -- who discovered he had a son, Nick Jones (a DE at Abilene Christian), and came to know him 20 years into the young man's life.

Story | November 25, 2009

It isn't easy being green

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly chronicles his journey to write an entirely green column for ESPN The Magazine's November 30, 2009 issue.

Story | November 16, 2009

The confounding world of athlete tattoos

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

Rick Reilly's column for Nov. 11 looks at the confusing nature of the athlete tattoo, from DeShawn Stevenson's backward P to Kenyon Martin's lips and incorrect Bible verse.

Story | November 11, 2009

Away they go

Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine

The award for the most daunting 75 seconds in sports goes to ... calling a horse race.

Story | November 3, 2009