To think Rick Reilly gets paid to write.
For his Penn State section the least he could have done is add citations to the blogs commentators he ripped off.
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It's funny because he's a hack.
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My original title was "Rick Reilly Is A Hack"
but I decided to tone it down a little. At least I’m not alone in that feeling. I never read his SI back page columns, and the only reason I read this was because it was on ESPN’s front page.
"Is that a shot at me? 'cause that makes me want to read it all the less."
I fell into the same trap.
And I regretted it instantaneously. Hey, hackface, BOWL RECORD UNDER PATERNO.
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by PSUinBOSSton on Jul 20, 2011 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Also, am I the only one who gets pissed off when he gives Simmons
the backhanded compliment of saying he writes columns that are too long, but does it so that his readers can skim for the content they want. Every fan of Simmons I know always jokes about when a column of his comes out they have to carve out an hour and a half of their work day to read it. And Reilly keeps justifying his laziness by saying no one can read too many words.
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by PSUinBOSSton on Jul 20, 2011 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Reilly is angry Simmons earns twice Reilly's salary, yet doesn't have the "pedigree" of Reilly.
I’m not a Simmons fan at all (well, the mailbag is entertaining, but not nearly as entertaining/jaw-dropping as KSK’s FF/S mailbag and Deadspin’s Funbag), but I would love to hear his off-the-record opinion of Reilly.
"Is that a shot at me? 'cause that makes me want to read it all the less."
I swear I'd read that Reilly gets about 3x or 4x what Simmons does.
I hope not.
by Chris Grovich on Jul 21, 2011 8:57 AM EDT up reply actions
Not that Simmons deserves to be so highly paid, but...
http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/10/rick-reillys-contract-with-espn-its-umm.html
Rick Reilly gets paid so much to be a useless hack, it really makes me weep.
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by Devon Edwards on Jul 21, 2011 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought Simmons made significantly more than Reilly,
or at least I got that sense from a combination of Deadspin and ESPN: TGHATF. I cannot pinpoint where exactly I came to that conclusion.
Oh well. If nothing else (and he’s really nothing else), Reilly’s salary is weep-worthy.
"Is that a shot at me? 'cause that makes me want to read it all the less."
And by trap, of course I mean musty old claptrap.
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by PSUinBOSSton on Jul 20, 2011 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions
That was my first thought too
Then remember when LSU and Tennessee thought the same thing?
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Did he hit every overused, played out, dumb stereotype of the Big Ten?
I think he did… that is some great writing!
WE'RE DANCIN!!!
I was thinking about fan-shotting this
I read a couple of his columns when he first started for ESPN, and quickly stopped. I saw the headline about Nebraska and the Big Ten, and figured I’d give him another chance. Dear lord. That’s literally the laziest piece of hack-work I’ve ever seen on ESPN.com by a pretty substantial margin.
I’m reminded of a kid in a high school class who hasn’t done the homework for two weeks and suddenly finds himself on call by a ticked-off professor. In his desperation, he rambles off a bunch of well-known facts, hoping that the ones he gets wrong will go unnoticed thanks to his “snark,” which he thinks is charming, but that only further aggravates everyone whose time he’s wasting.
by newenglandnittanylion on Jul 20, 2011 6:43 PM EDT reply actions
what a fuckin douchebag
there’s an afternoon sports talk show out here (I think its syndicated nationally actually), and one of the hosts (ex-usc back petros papadakis) tells this story the other day about when he and a few other sports talk journalist folk were at some concert and Rick Reilly was bumming cigarettes off Petros to make himself look cool/hip.
story was much funnier when Petros told it, go download the podcast or some shit.
petros and moeny show
by hbeach08 on Jul 20, 2011 6:51 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Heh, Petros is great.
I enjoy just about everything that guy does, when I happen to see it.
by Chris Grovich on Jul 21, 2011 8:58 AM EDT up reply actions
especially Pros vs. Joes.
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by Devon Edwards on Jul 21, 2011 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
I think Rick Reilly is the only ESPN columnist that disables comments on his articles
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There's nothing new under the sun....
and everything original has already been written. That being said, I could have written that bit of crap without ever knowing that the B1G exsisted. Ever siknce he left SI, he has mailed his columns in and is certainly not with it when he appears on ESPN sponsored shows. Wit, he has none. He has degraded from half-wit to dim-wit.
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Sad
Reilly used to be a great writer once, not really sure how he became such a farce. Remember, he wrote the 1986 SI article for Joe’s Sportsman of the Year:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1065673/index.htm
"He's a beast. But so am I. So let the beasting begin."
He's probably still a great writer
But he has to generate more content for ESPN now then he did when he was at SI. Plus, he’s pretty much accomplished everything a sports-writer can realistically hope to accomplish, so he’s probably close to mailing it in and collecting checks at this point. Finally, remember that the article was supposed to be funny, not informative. At best the article was lame, however, at worst it was lame.
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In a way I kind of feel bad for him
I tend to agree with you – he’s probably still a great writer. But now he’s dealing with having to publish things non-stop, and with a new medium and style of writing. His last book was something about finding the quirkiest sporting events around the globe. I mean…really? I remember reading something on Grantland that Tony Kornheiser wrote back in the 70’s or 80’s about Nolan Ryan (with his present-day comments) and it mentioned how he’s terrified of writing now, and that essentially, the game has changed and he’d be terrible at it. Thought that was really interesting.
"He's a beast. But so am I. So let the beasting begin."
Twenty years ago there were articles in SI about games.
Like, what happened in them, who scored and when, etc. Can you imagine out of date that information would be even three days after the game? Now everything has to come from an angle, and offer an insight or opinion. It’s easy to be insightful on your schedule, it’s quite a bit different to have to do it on a deadline.
The same thing applies to announcers for football games. Sure you have to might be awesome at it, once, for a quarter, while watching your favorite team. But try doing it for the Eastern Illinois, Western Michigan game when you have to offer an opinion after every play. Eventually you are going to start to sound like an idiot.
I've decided that it is a legitimate possibility that the Pirates might be decent.
I Still Subscribe to SI
Because I feel like every week there a 1-2 excellent articles about something random. But you are right, a lot of times opinions and spins are forced, and it comes out contrived and hacky.
I love the completely random stories, like the one about the bull fighter a couple months ago was great, the story on Stan the Man was very interesting (albeit a little hokey), and the Ty Cobb batting controversy versus Lajoie was an excellent read.
It’s a shame, really, that the constant flow of information has really affected sports articles. I know it’s not an important topic, I just remember as little as 10 years ago magazines being much better.
I quit my subscription after that "expose" on criminality in college football, after almost 10 years of getting it.
The second to last straw was the complete lack of mention of our 4th consecutive women’s volleyball national championship. In years 2 and 3, we merited at least a blurb—but nothing for four. I wrote a long letter to them about this, and got no response.
Fire Dan Snyder
If you cancelled your subscription for that joke of an article
I hope you don’t watch the Nightly News, 60 Minutes, or heck, even Frontline.
As I said above, I was close to cancelling anyway
I was getting nothing out of it anymore that I couldn’t get online, and the fact that abomination was on the front page pissed me off. And I don’t tend to watch any of those news programs, typically I get my news online or over the radio.
Fire Dan Snyder
Reilly
Take the article for what it was. A series of jokes that got less and less funny as the article went on. Lame, lame, lame. Bad jokes make anyone look douchey.
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