Reading the Fights

The Best Writing About the Most Controversial of Sports
Edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Daniel Halpern - 1990 Prentice Hall Trade

 Review Upcoming!

Hate Mail from Cheerleaders

And Other Adventures from the Life of Reilley
Rick Reilley - 2007 Time Warner, Inc

One good turn deserves another!

The pieces in this book cover the early 2000s.  The biggest irony I'm wrapping my head around is that Lance Armstrong wrote the foreword for this book.  I'm curious who would have been chosen had this been published just a few years later.

The Life of Reilley

The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilley
2008 - Sports Illustrated

A number of years ago, my cousin forced a Sports Illustrated magazine into my hands and told me to read Rick Reilley's column on the back page.  Needless to say, the column was great but I never followed up. 

By the time I became a regular subscriber to the magazine, Reilley had already moved on from the back pages of SI.  Which is why I was so excited to read this book, to finally get the chance to catch up on some of those columns that I missed.

Pieces in this book span the late 80s to early 2000 and it's incredible to see how some things have hardly changed at all, whereas others have progressed tremendously.   In addition to Reilley's excellent writing, this book is worth reading for its wide scope and perspective on sports.