Rick Reilly

ESPN

Career Highlights:  Award-winning sportswriter and media personality Rick Reilly is best-known for being the “back page” columnist for Sports Illustrated … After 23 years with the magazine, Reilly moved to ESPN in June where he is working on ESPN’s magazine, website and SportsCenter…One of the most recognized, popular and respected journalists, Reilly has won the national Sportswriter of the Year award 11 times…His style is usually light-hearted and humorous, poking fun at the absurdities of athletes, coaches and sports, but he also has a serious side and has written on many subjects including small town heroes…Reilly has written several New York Times bestseller books including “Who’s Your Caddy?” where he caddies for everyone from Jack Nicklaus to Donald Trump to a $50,000-a-hole gambler…”The Life of Reilly:  the Best of Sports Illustrated’s Rick Reilly” also was a New York Times bestseller…Other books include:  “Slo Mo!,” “Missing Links,” “Shanks for Nothing,” and “Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly”…Reilly is co-author of the screenplay of the recently-released movie “Leatherheads,” a comic romance starring George Clooney and Renee Zellweger centered on the 1924 Duluth Eskimos of the fledgling NFL…He has won numerous awards in his career including the prestigious New York Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award for Best Magazine Story…He is co-author of “The Boz,” the best-selling autobiography of bad-boy Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth; “Gretzky,” with hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky; “I’d Love to but I Have a Game,” with announcer Marv Albert; and “The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley”…Reilly began his career in 1979 taking in high-school scores for his hometown Boulder (Colorado) Daily Camera while a sophomore at the University of Colorado…He wrote for two more years at the Camera, two years for the Denver Post and then two at the Los Angeles Times, before joining Sports Illustrated in 1985…Reilly is the founder of the anti-malaria effort “Nothing But Nets,” which has raised millions to hang mosquito nets over kids in Africa, where 3,000 children die every day of the disease.

Updated: May, 2008
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