Tung's review
Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly
by Editors of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly
Tung's review
Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly by Editors of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly
Tung's review
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Rick Reilly is one of Sports Illustrated’s – and one of the country’s – most popular columnists. He and Mitch Albom are of the same breed – they are not sports columnists; rather, they’re walking Hallmark cards, human interest storytellers whose subjects have some connection to sports. They’re popular because their writing is schmaltzy and saccharine. This book is a collection of 100 of Reilly’s “best” columns (as chosen by him) from the years 2001-2006. Prediction: you could sit down before you open this book and guess at the subjects of the columns Reilly has written, and you’d probably be able to name 85% of his material: there’s the requisite three or four columns expressing disgust at the use of steroids in sports; there’s a column or two on Lance Armstrong; there’s a column on the death of Pat Tillman; there’s a column on 9/11, there’s several columns on Tiger Woods; there’s a column on a Lousiana high school sports team post-Katrina; there are ...more
