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Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - now confirmed by NYT

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by thebiglead, Oct 19, 2007.

  1. Jones

    Jones Active Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - HYPOTHETICAL

    I can't speak for Jason, but I just followed the inexplicable boner I so suddenly popped.
     
  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - HYPOTHETICAL

    Let's start the Whitlock to SI rumor... ;D
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - HYPOTHETICAL

    Can we take the hypothetical off there... It's pretty clear it's true...
     
  4. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - HYPOTHETICAL

    Will his title be senior cast member?

    I guess we know now what space Patrick column will occupy at SI
     
  5. Dangerous_K

    Dangerous_K Active Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - HYPOTHETICAL

    Being presumptuous here, but Patrick being on the back page seems like a good thing, as it likely means an actual column as opposed to interview transcripts from his radio show.
     
  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - HYPOTHETICAL

    I won't miss Reilly. A couple of weeks ago they ran the "pick up Butch" column" and I thought, hasn't he already done this (but then I get that feeling a lot reading Reilly's column). It turned out he was on vacation and I guess couldn't whip something together. I don't know what his contract was, but being courted by ESPN was the best thing that happened to him in terms of money and the back page column. There are dozens of writers that can put that page to better use, but I'm afraid Dan Patrick isn't one of them.
     
  7. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - apparently

    Wondering which came first, Reilly's exit or Patrick's hiring, but if it's the latter, this is why you don't call him a Senior Writer.
     
  8. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - apparently

    The timing?

    From the original press release:

    Patrick will pen a weekly column for Sports Illustrated beginning in January.
    SI Digital will re-launch DANPATRICK.com in early 2008 with audio simulcast from the nationally syndicated radio program, “The Dan Patrick Show”.
    FanNation technology will power a daily Patrick blog and social-networking community.
    SI writers will make regularly scheduled appearances on “The Dan Patrick Show,” with Peter King, Tom Verducci and Rick Reilly all joining the week of October 22nd.
    Patrick will serve as an emcee on December 4th for SI’s Sportsman of the Year Award celebration, an honor awarded by SI to the sports figure or team which best symbolizes the ideals of sportsmanship.


    From today's NYT:

    He does his radio show, which is broadcast from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern, in a new home studio with a red light that warns his children not to come in, but they do anyway.

    The Sports Illustrated deal guarantees that writers like Rick Reilly, Peter King and Tom Verducci will appear on the program regularly.
    Patrick’s column will be in the front of the magazine, sort of a bookend to Reilly’s, which serves as its weekly coda.
    “I told him it should be dangerous,” McDonell said.



    It would seem to have come as something of a surprise.

    Unless keeping Mr. Reilly's name in the press releases was simply window dressing.

    Or Mr. Reilly's not leaving.
     
  9. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - apparently

    And when you're on vacation you have enough things "whipped together" so the readers didn't even know you were gone?
     
  10. Some Guy

    Some Guy Active Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - apparently

    Yeah, that's a silly complaint. That was actually a pretty good column, even if it was a re-run. I'm gonna miss Reilly in SI. Guess I'm one of the few.
     
  11. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - HYPOTHETICAL

    Does SI give that spot to an unproven columnist? I'd think SI would try to find a heavy hitter who'll see that column as his/her No. 1 gig, not something to do during commercial breaks of their radio show.
     
  12. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Re: Rick Reilly leaves Sports Illustrated - apparently

    It was a good column. My comment was more on some of Reilly's less involved columns, like things to do when Barry Bonds hits 756 or athletes' Christmas lists.
    He gets a week off in December for the double issue, a week off for the "Where Are They Now" issue. My point is this "THIS IS SPORTS ILLUSTRATED!" THIS IS TIME INC! "IT'S Not USA TODAY SPORTS WEEKLY! He gets more time off than you guys get! Go write for ESPN brother and debate Skip and Woody. Go write for ESPN and appear on Rounding the Horn.
     
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