Reilly hosted ESPN's Homecoming with Rick Reilly, an interview show, and he is a contributing essayist for ESPN SportsCenter and ABC Sports.
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16 Facts About Rick Reilly
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Rick Reilly began his career in 1979 as an undergraduate assistant with the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado.
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Rick Reilly left the Camera in 1981 to be a football writer on the sports staff of the Denver Post, then on to the Los Angeles Times in 1983 before joining Sports Illustrated in 1985.
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Rick Reilly has become a recognized name in the sportswriting industry because of his human interest pieces; his column, “Life of Rick Reilly” was featured on the back page of SI from 1997 until 2007.
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Rick Reilly hosted “Homecoming”, an interview program, on ESPN, which was taped in the hometowns of featured guests.
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Rick Reilly has been voted NSSA National Sportswriter of the Year eleven times.
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Rick Reilly is second only to the late Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times in number of times winning that award.
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Rick Reilly's work has been recognized by the prestigious New York Newspaper Guild's Page One Award for Best Magazine Story.
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Rick Reilly co-wrote the screenplay for Leatherheads, a film directed by George Clooney, starring Clooney, Renee Zellweger and John Krasinski and released in April 2008.
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Slate's Josh Levin noted that Rick Reilly had an affinity for discussing pro athletes and their accomplishments via tooth jokes.
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In 2002, after Sammy Sosa's public assertion that if baseball initiated testing for performance-enhancing drugs, he "wanted to be first in line", Rick Reilly suggested that he submit to preemptive, voluntary testing.
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Rick Reilly described the incident in his column the following week.
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Rick Reilly has been a frequent critic of former San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds for his treatment of his teammates, his off-field behavior and his alleged steroid use.
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Rick Reilly had long defended cyclist Lance Armstrong against accusations of using illegal performance enhancements, in part because his own reporting turned up no evidence corroborating the allegations that had been made against Armstrong over the years.
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In 2006, Rick Reilly wrote a column in Sports Illustrated about a program dedicated to providing anti-malaria nets to African children at a cost of $10 per net.
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Rick Reilly appeared in a Miller Lite commercial with Rebecca Romijn in 1999.
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