Rick Reilly, ESPN
Description: Rick Reilly has won the national Sportswriter of the Year award 11 times. He spent two years as a football writer on the sports staff of the Los Angeles Times before joining Sports Illustrated in 1985. Reilly has become a recognized name in the sportswriting industry because of his human interest pieces in SI. His column on Sports Illustrated's back page was called "The Life of Reilly." Reilly left Sports Illustrated and currently is a writer for ESPN.











