Rick Reilly makes his ESPN debut

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3422420

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/57039/

 

I totally suck.

 

Don't feel bad, Bullwinkle.

Reilly did make a broadcast sportscasting debut (I think) on the Belmont Stakes pre-race show a little while ago, giving 10 reasons he likes Big Brown to win the Triple Crown.

 

Oh, I posted the column?

I meant to link to the broadcast. ;D

 

The SI jinx lives on, despite the change of address!

 

I know this is the internet, and that therefore none of the historic standards of copyright or fair usage apply - because, hey, information wants to be free - but can you not post the whole column? Since all of us sort of still depend on, you know, people actually visiting the sites we work for to read the things we write?

Thanks.

 

I certainly don't cry every time I read a Reilly column that attempts to tug at the heart, as he sometimes tries to force it.

This column was an exception. It had me reaching for the Kleenix.

 

God, he was terrible at the Belmont.

Keep him in front of his laptop and away from the television cameras.

 

I suppose the public's perceived appetite for father-son B.S. never gets sated, but I, for one, am tired of the concept. If we're not writing about some athlete who had a a) great or b) lousy relationship with his dad, we're writing about ourselves and a) how much we love the old guy, or b) how wretched the old guy made life for us, our siblings and our mothers. Or some combination of the above.

Everybody had a dad, lousy or great. Nothing to see here. Let's move on. (Lest you think I'm touchy on the subject, me and my old man were somewhere in the middle. He's gone now. I try to be like him in some ways and not in others. Zzzzzzzz.)

 

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