Reilly's debut for ESPN the MAG.....

No, not looking for anything. He's been dead for 16 years. Just adding a personal thought on this column which, since it's Reilly, is bound to produce plenty of comments both pro and con.

Broadway Joe nailed it: it was probably a bitch to write.

 

Great read, but makes me wonder why this wasn't written as a Father's Day piece in a few weeks. Perhaps he'll be at the U.S. Open instead.

 

If he wrote that in 10 minutes then let me just say I'm damn jealous. I don't see how anyone could read that and think it was something he threw together.

I thought it was great. And when you compare it to the crap that has taken his place on the back page it's pretty clear that this ESPN's gain and SI's loss.

 

The Magazine is biweekly, yes? Father's Day is a week from Sunday. This is the Father's Day issue.

 

I enjoyed the debut and I'm glad we'll get to read Reilly again. He's had some great columns -- and I know this is unoriginal -- but I always like his profiles better.

It seems like his regular column in The Mag will be called "The Life of Reilly." That kind of surprised me. I thought the ESPN folks would do something to separate themselves from SI.

But, considering how popular Reilly is, maybe ESPN brass wanted to bring that sense of familiarity.

 

Not the greatest Riley column ever but compared to the horseshit Dan Patrick writes in SI, this deserves a Pulitzer.

 

Which tells you that I have no use for ESPN the Magazine since they can't even come out once a week. I will, however, check out Reilly's column online.

 

Not sure what the headline on espn.com means when it says that golf touches more families than any other sport. That's a pretty elitist assumption considering the socioeconomic demographic of the sport.

 

Has anyone ever seen Reilly and Saget in the same room?

 

Well, you're comparing apples to horseshit (Patrick's column)...

 

What Patrick does is much different. It's mostly Q&A, which suits him fine. I always thought he conducted good interviews.

 

Unless they updated it, I thought it was fine. All it says is, "Perhaps more than any sport, golf wields power over families."

That was the sub-head on ESPN.com. Did you mean something different.