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The Life of Reilly: The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly

Sports Illustrated, 2008

Witty, irreverent, opinionated, honest, laugh-out-loud funny. These are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe the writing of Rick Reilly, the eleven-time National Sportswriter of the Year, who has entertained the readers of Sports Illustrated for 22 years with his unique perspective on the world of sports and life in general. Now, in The Life of Reilly, Rick has selected over 60 of his finest stories to create a ...

Life of Reilly

15 reviews
Rick Reilly

Total Sports Illustrated, 2000

This one's a keeper...
I had the privilege of being interviewed several times by Rick when I was a high school track athlete and he was a young flip-flop wearing sports writer for the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, Colorado earning his stripes covering high school sports. Even way back then it was obvious that he enjoyed sports writing and it came as little surprise to see him eventually end up as SI's ...

Sports Illustrated: Knockouts, Five Decades of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Photography

10 reviews
Steven Hoffman, Steve Hoffman

Sports Illustrated, 2001

Old School
There is a wonderful quote in this book from a journalist (and a female one at that) which says: "All the SI bathing suit models are muscular and lean and authentic. They don't mind working up a good sweat. They're proud of the bodies they've worked into shape. There is nothing powdery or gushy about them. In other words the women in the swimsuit issue are not the worse role models a young ...

Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Rick Reilly (Sports ...
Rick Reilly

Sports Illustrated, 2008

Soon after best-selling author Rick Reilly started writing a weekly back-page column for Sports Illustrated, he tackled the subject of cheerleading. Reilly wrote: "I don't hate cheerleading just because it's as safe as porcupine juggling. I hate it because it's dumb. Cheerleaders have no more impact on the game than the night janitorial staff. Exactly what does a girl get out of cheerleading, anyway, besides a circle skirt and a tight sweater?" ...

Missing Links

100 reviews
Rick Reilly

Broadway Books, 2000

Missing Links
Great book!!! For Men that golf (or are golf nuts - as it were). In addition to being a "salty" golf yarn about a bet amoung friends, the story includes real life problems and how to deal with them (uuhhh well maybe not). Fun and quick.

The Best American Sports Writing 2002 (The Best American Series)

3 reviews

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Last Year in Sports
As is always true with these annual "Best of ..." books, there are several notable omissions that deserved to be included, but there is enough good material to make it well worth its price. More than anything it is a nice reminder of all that went on in sports in 2001, with several well written profiles of athletes, events, and sports that may not have received much coverage but are still ...

Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf

64 reviews
Rick Reilly

Broadway, 2004

The Life of Reilly
For years, I've been hearing that Sports Illustrated magazine features the crispest writing on the newsstand. I don't spend a lot of time watching or tracking sports, so SI wasn't exactly a "must read" for me. Rick Reilly, it turns out, is one of SI's one of the reasons for the magazine's reputation. He's a terrific writer. Not only that, he's funny. Who's Your Caddy? serves as ...

Slo Mo!

14 reviews
Rick Reilly

Broadway, 2000

Fiction in the real world
Reilly did it again. He wrote another article, or book in this case, that is unresistable to every reader, not just sports fans. He creates this naive basketball player in the NBA. It all seems real and he shows what's really wrong with the league and the society. A must for everyone.

Shanks for Nothing: A Novel

28 reviews
Rick Reilly

Broadway, 2007

Shanks for Nothing
Rick Reilly is just too funny for words, he creates so many images that will last forever in my mind. The characters in this novel are wonderful and the mix of personalities is perfect. A must read for anyone that loves to laugh out loud and especially if you love the game of golf like I do, read it.

Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly

19 reviews
Rick Reilly

Sports Illustrated, 2007

I laughed, I cried, I got angry
I feel a sports columnist's job is to evoke emotion in the reader. Make him/her laugh, cry, get angry, just don't bore them. Riley does that better than anyone. He's an amazingly gifted writer and I loved nearly every bit of this book. I'd already read most of these columns being a subscriber to Sports Illustrated, but they were definitely worth a re-read. He's great at tugging the ...

Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties

Yale University Press, 2005

The aesthetics and spirit of popular culture have been increasingly relevant to British graphic designers over the past several decades. Communicate offers a fascinating selection of this innovative work, examining closely the influence of youth culture, pop music, and new wave aesthetics on graphic design during the 1960s and ever since. Illustrated in full color, Communicate features 350 images that range from classic designs of the ...

Voice Application Development with VoiceXML

2 reviews
Rick Beasley, Kenneth Michael Farley, ...

Sams, 2001

Top notch
This is an outstanding book with useful information and clear explanations. It doesn't just cover the VoiceXML spec but also shows you how to use it in IVR-replacement systems and other real applications. If you really need to build stuff with voicexml then you need this book. You can tell in reading the book that these authors have *actually done* voice application development and aren't just ...

Bluewater Down

4 reviews
Rick O'Reilly

Durban House, 2005

A must read!
If you are into thrilling reads then Bluewater Down is the book for you! This is a fast paced, smart novel that will keep you on the edge of your beach chair! Rick O'Reilly is a great new find for me and I hope he keeps the books coming. His writing style is very much in line with all the other great author's but O'Reilly adds some realistic twists to this adventuresome novel that will knock ...

Don't Make Me Cry, Roy
Roy Firestone with Scott Ostler

Magic Turtle Press, 2007

Roy Firestone has interviewed over 5000 famous athletes and entertainers on television. The book is 221 pages Measures 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 x Weighs 1 pound 4.3 ounces

The O'Reilly Factor for Kids CD: A Survival Guide for America's Families
Bill O'Reilly, Charles Flowers

HarperAudio, 2004

There's no one more blunt, more opinionated, or more outspoken than the average teen. Except, of course, Bill O'Reilly, veteran star journalist, anchor of the most watched cable news program on TV, New York Times bestselling author, husband, father of two and former teacher. In his latest book, O'Reilly talks straight to the readers most likely to appreciate his direct style -- teens. To be sure he's addressing their most pressing concerns, ...

Gretzky: An Autobiography

12 reviews
Wayne Gretzky, Rick Reilly

Harpercollins, 1990

a GREATzky book
i started to read this book for a school project. i chose to do it on wayne gretzkym since i love hockey, i mean it is like my life, but there were so many gretzky books to choose from, so i chose to read the autobiography, i'm glad i chose this book, it is just about the best book i have ever read, it has a lot of good information and by reading this book i learned a lot of new information that ...

Classic Golf: The Photographs of Walter Iooss Jr.
Walter Iooss Jr., Rick Reilly

Harry N. Abrams, 2004

Following on the success of his Classic Baseball , America's greatest sports photographer is back with a book that chronicles some of the most memorable moments in the history of golf. Through photographs taken over the last 40 years, Walter Iooss Jr. communicates the anticipation and tension, the focus and concentration, the heartbreak and victory of the world of golf. Augmenting Iooss's unforgettable images of players, tournaments, and ...

The Best of The Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom

3 reviews
Bill Scheft

Grand Central Publishing, 2006

The Best of the Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom
Bill Sheft is the best. This book is so great! I very much enjoyed reading this book and his weekly articles in SI.

Kids Are Americans Too CD: Your Rights to a Good, Safe, Fun Life

1 review
Bill O'reilly

HarperAudio, 2007

Sound advice but....
This book has good advice for kids but I feel it lost something in the translation. Bill should have read this book himself not hired an actor to do it. It was a little hard to follow for me, an adult. I doubt a youngster would hang around to figure it out. Maybe reading the book would be better......

How to Cheat in Sports: Professional Tricks Exposed!

2 reviews
Scott Ostler

Chronicle Books, 2008

Funny, insightful & surprising
I was surprised by how ubiquitous cheating is in pro sports, but Scott Ostler names names and gives step-by-step instructions on how it's done. Pretty useful for pick-up game players who can now identify the sneaky ways that opponents might try to get the best of them. He covers football, basketball, baseball [bat corking is real!], bowling, even golf and water polo. Where does it end? Not ...

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