The Life of Reilly: The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly

by Rick Reilly

Book Overview

Witty, irreverent, opinionated, honest, laugh-out-loud funny -- these are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe the writing of Rick Reilly, the six-time National Sportswriter of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892129884
• ISBN13: 9781892129888
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Total Sports
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

What a gifted writer

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you will be entertained. Rick Reilly truly has a gift. His stories are short, but poignant, and always funny.

Rick is a Riot!!!!!!!!

Just started this book - GREAT thus far! For all you golfaholics, you must read his golf books "Who's Your Caddy?", "Missing Links", & "Shanks For Nothing" - They're hilarious!!!!!

Reilly is the King

Nobody writes about sport like Reilly. This is a great collection of his Sports Illustrated pieces. If you are a fan of sports journalism, this is a must read for you.

First thing I read every week in S.I.

I always find that the back of each issue of Sports Illustrated is always the page I read first. Especially good ones are the "Perfect Day", the one where Reilly describes a golf outing with President Clinton, and my favorite - the one about the meaning of life, from a sports perspective, of course.

Rolling on the floor

Who wouldn't like Reilly? He is the best in sportswriting. I can't remember reading anyone getting close to his pieces. I read his columns in SI every week, many were reprinted in this book, but I was still rolling on the floor when I read them. A lot of them are funny, some are touching, but they all provoke emotions. Keep it up, Reilly.