Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, Rick Reilly
Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, Rick Reilly
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Hate Mail from Cheerleaders
And Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly

Author: Rick Reilly

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/13/2007

Synopsis

Each week, when Sports Illustrated's 21 million readers open up their magazine, many turn right to the last page because that's where to find SI's most popular feature: the Life of Reilly column written by bestselling author Rick Reilly. A twenty-one-year veteran of the magazine and ten-time Sportswriter of the Year, Reilly took over SI's back page in 1998, and his column immediately attracted a devoted audience who helped make his 1990 book, The Life of Reilly, a New York Times bestseller.

This new collection includes 100 of Reilly's favorite columns from the last six years, along with an introduction by Lance Armstrong. The title of the book signifies the strong reader response his columns typically generate (he wrote a column saying that cheerleading isn't a sport, and there was a light-hearted backlash). Alternately side-splitting and heart-warming, but always opinionated and provocative, this book brings together the best work by the best columnist in the business.

About Rick Reilly

Currently a screenwriter and author, Rick Reilly for years wrote for Sports Illustrated and appeared on and wrote for ESPN. In addition to being voted the NSMA National Sportswriter of the Year eleven times, he has been recognized with the Damon Runyon Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism. USA Today called him, "the closest thing sportswriting ever had to a rock star."

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Hollie on 2008-10-29 17:45:12

This is pretty good. The constant Postscript at the end of each story is a little annoying at first, but then you kind of forget about it because the stories are so good. I am not a sports fan, but I enjoyed this book. I am considering subscribing to SI just to read his column.

Goodreads review by Chelsea on October 07, 2007

I love Rick Reilly, and his columns fit neatly into the Sports Night category: for the most part, they're about sports the way Charlie's Angels was about law enforcement. Really, they're about the people who play sports, the people who love sports, and the people who live sports. Now, my only issue......more

Goodreads review by Mattias on May 23, 2018

"Surgeon, after patient dies: “I don’t know. I just came out a little flat. You can’t get hyped up every single day.” (Reilly, 56) This quote refers to what would happen if everyday people could use athlete's excuses. I like this quote because it just shows how ridiculous athletes can be. I've heard......more

Goodreads review by Byron on July 09, 2012

I fished this bad boy out of a dollar bin and decided to copp after consulting the Wiki. Come to find out this guy Rick Reilly is one of the all-time most popular sports writers. Who knew? At the time, he was the only opinion writer in the history of SI - the source of this anthology of columns from......more

Goodreads review by Mayda on May 09, 2012

Rick Reilly doesn’t really write about sports. He writes about people who are involved in sports. In this audio book, he selected 100 of his favorite columns written for Sports Illustrated during the last seven years. You don’t have to be a sports addict to enjoy these columns. Indeed, he writes abo......more

Goodreads review by David on June 06, 2012

I know the title sounds odd; what in the world in this book about? The author, Rick Reilly, is a not your typical sportswriter: he's a writer that focuses on life-altering and inspirational stories that just so happen to have sports in the background. I picked up this book because I love Reilly's wr......more

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