But have you ever read W.C. Heinz?

Rick Reilly may have the coin, but he will never have the kwan.

lol @ “the kwan”

But does Rick feel really passionately about this?

That’s the only way I know how to judge the true feelings of the old guard.

As usual…

Well played sir!!

I didn’t know Nothing But Nets had such a strong interest in eradicating malaria…certainly something to be proud of…

Orson,

What is your 6-subject “dream board”?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=botdmsQilnU

Tiger Stadium’s press box needs an upgrade.

You realize that if he contacts you, the terrorists have won.

Who is this “Rick Riley” assclown and why is he clogging up my access to college football commentary?

I find that assholes only get upset when you say things about them that are true. I mean, they’re always upset, because they’re assholes, but they get upset with you, specifically, when you tell the truth about them.

I’m not saying they won’t…. but I have some doubts as to whether some of the greater mainstream writers will step up to this.

just in case this story every makes it onto hbo or some such, i want my name to get mentioned…so here goes:

Good riddance, f*ckface", “So long ya fetus-faced windbag”, "Good luck managing a Denny’s douchebag

Re 1: Yes I have read The Professional.

/cue anger since blogger is smarter than you are

Ironic that a journalist doesn’t have enough sense to just let a little blurb like that drift into obscurity. I liked him more after reading it the first time. He and his girlfriend should be happy that she looks like a stripper.

Wow imagine how pissed Reills would be if you printed a rumor that he was had a 9 handicap.

The only solution is to print more bullshit.

Reilly just wrote an article for ESPN about how his Dad was an alcoholic who spent more time playing golf than with his kids and that it made him want to be around his kids and a better father to them. Hmmm.

Did she look like a stripper in the Gold Club sense or the Mike Price sense? That’s the important question.

@ Masked- “Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?” is my drunken go-to Trivial Pursuit answer.

All of these MSM v Bloggers beefs aren’t exactly East Coast v West Coast rappers, but they’re still good. I hope it will raise the level of writing on both sides. Can’t wait for the EDSBS version of “Big Poppa”.

Throw ya hands in the aya if youse a true playa!

O, so which polymath’s will be chosen for Team Blog?

Our team remains a secret of sorts, though if you did enough diligent searching you could find out who’s going to be on it. (Trying to save some ammo for Clay’s column later this week/next week.)

Tell Rick to get over it. After seeing the cover of ESPN with Chad naked tell him to put some fucking clothes on and get to the first down marker on 3rd and long. Not too hard to do asshole. Maybe the fans in Cincinnati will welcome you back if you go back to making plays, which you did not do last year.

Scapegoat? FUCK YOU. People in Cincinnati know football, just like the rest of the USA, we hate you because you dropped mad balls last year and didn’t get to to marker on key downs in key games.

Ever since he got jacked up against Cleveland last year he has been nothing but a bitch.

Put that in your article Chad.

#19

http://tinyurl.com/6pbkv7

http://tinyurl.com/664xaa

and so, in losing the Blogger/MSM quiz bowl, Rick learned that the greater lesson was to not lose ones self…

Actually, the journalistic integerity is fine, “she LOOKED like a stripper” does not equate to “she IS a stripper”. What are you going to do, check with Reilly to see if the girl he was with looked like a stripper or not?

Reilly is a dumbass, he must support a playoff.

in college football that is….

I’m going to refrain from insulting Reilly now.
Spencer issued a polite and formal challange and calling him a douche isn’t the quickest way to earn a positive response.

@ 18

Almost half of his SI back page columns referenced, or was the subject of his entire article, his family, specifically his children.

They never had anything to do with sports, just perspective pieces written to “make us think and cherish what is important.”

I bet the kids adore Pops for trading in Mom to lease a newer model.

Orson just put the laughter in manslaughter.

1. - I think Will Leitch and Brian are two of the members of said team.

They better hold up their end of the quiz bowl for the Big 10, I don’t want Orson to be Tebowesque in his performance and tout the ESS EEE CEE’S BRAIN SPEED in the Curious Index the day after.

Not going to happen. When Hanna Barbera issued a challenge to Mickey, Daffy, and the gang for the Laugh Olympics, the Mouse declined. I don’t see the Mouse letting their prized journalists, or Reilly, taking you up on your challenge.

Reilly is assured to be the top button on a two-button Polo. He’s no Steve Rushin (who has integrity) Journalism, my ass. Reilly spins dinner plates and juggles hammers for a living. I didn’t think he could be more of a prick than when he was at SI. Since his “ascension” to the Worldwide Leader, he has become a class-A knob jockey. Inconceiveable! I would put Orson’s “Slippery Man” post up against anything Reilly ever thought about committing to print. May the god of your choosing bless you, Spencer.

out of conference,

And I’ll never forgive them for it. Bastards!

The Elroy Jetson, Bobo, Manialla Gorilla, and Snagglepuss team was a force to be reckoned with.

All kidding aside though, Rick Reilly wrote a very good piece on an acquaintance of mine’s son that ran cross-country in high school and finished every single race even though he has cerebral palsy- often times an hour or more behind the next to last finisher. So besides his parents, Rick Reilly is probably this kid’s biggest hero.

Coop @ 29 – I’m going to circle today’s date on the calendar, because I agree with you, and not in some snarky way either.

Ryno – They canceled the Laugh Olympics after Grape Ape showed up on the set effed up on Purple Drank wanting to show everyone his f*ck lion.

As a fellow blogger, I really appreciate your counter-attack on a so-called “journalist”. In the land of too many journalists (aka Columbia, MO), there is a lot hub-bub over citizen journalism taking over. I believe that if professional journalists were better at their job, there would be no need for the blogosphere. Well done, Orson!

It is better for college football when getting stoned/drunk is relevant.

Post 40 yet the first with “TTIWWOP”

So, intarweb folkens, find the pic of Reily’s dame and search the background for a stripper pole, a dj booth, or PAC-MAN Jones making it rain.

We need proof, and if we can’t find proof, we’ll have LSUFreek manufacture it!

And going on Cowherd! Way to make a reasonable case, sir.

Orson – this isn’t a smartass question: is Spencer Hall a journalist due to the SN column? Just wondering if you do things differently over there.

Pfft, like Reilly’s never seen Page Six. You don’t get to go on TV and write bestsellers while still claiming to be a private citizen. If he had any sense, he’d have let the issue die.

I always thought the point of getting paid beaucoup dollas was so that one didn’t have to pay attention to people (comparatively) poorer than oneself?

Just in case some of you are out of practice, you should get some advice from those more in form beforehand.

If you want pure academics, go with PACE. Go with NAQT if you want questions more accessible for the average sports journalist. NAQT sprinkles a couple of sports, pop culture, and math computation questions in each match, while PACE is pretty much limited to straight book lernin.

Whooooo! Esss-eee-seee buzzer speed!

Brian cook

is a fucking douche. reilly, cook, and bissinger should form their own three man tag team in the interest of “unity”. they could call themselves “Douche; nossle, hose, applicator” or possibly “triumvirate of ill-informed a holes who spout off about subjects of which they have no clue” if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

I was there in the pressbox and saw Reilly. I can’t speak to whether he was high or whatever, but there certainly wasn’t any journalism going on. He barely watched the game.

“I didn’t contact you for comment because I’m guessing you would have just denied it anyway” is the weakest excuse going.

It has nothing to do with whether you define yourself as a blogger or a journalist or a dickwad. It’s about being an adult, having some balls, and taking some responsibility. Until you man up and show you can do that nobody will ever take you seriously.

What bugs me about Reiley isn’t his talent/success ratio, it is that the ratio is mediocre AND he’s so smug.

“Until you man up and show you can do that nobody will ever take you seriously.”

That’s certainly the hope, as being taken seriously is the last thing we want to happen around here.

He probably found Orson’s post during his daily googling of his own name.

Not saying I don’t do it on occasion, but it’s still a little narcissistic.

Reilly wrote an article about my alma mater, The Citadel, back in ‘92 that was the sorriest excuse for journalism I have ever seen. Just getting one or two facts correctly would have improved the story. There was a long time SI boycott by many Citadel alumni: I haven’t paid for a copy of the magazine since then and I know one guy who won’t even read it in the doctor’s office.

I would not walk across the street to piss on Rick Reilly if he was on fire. Hard to believe that this guy is “celebrated” as the a darling of the modern media. By all accounts, he’s s smug a-hole.

sub “correct” for “correctly” in previous post. I is not illiterate.

why the fuck are you writing about journalism? we come here and bought your book for the hilarious and fresh view on college football

Not this seemingly ever-escalating pissing contest between sports bloggers and [any group or individual]

get back to the goods man

and yeah, she does look like a stripper

Lang,

Was that the article about the kicker who missed a field goal and was purportedly hung in the closet over a sabre? That article was a mindscrew for someone who briefly considering going there…

#29, I prefer the term “getting younger at that position.”

Who is Rick Reilly?

55 – You are thinking of the feature article written about the Citadel prior to the Shannon Faulkner debacle, I believe. The Reilly column was about Faulkner, or letting females into the Citadel.

Anyway, the above referenced feature article did not portray El Cid in the most favorable light.

Charlie Taffee (sic) had a heck of a team back in the early 90s. Jack Douglas could run that flexbone amazingly. Douglas is the 2nd best option QB in the history of I-AA, behind only Georgia Southern’s Tracy Ham.

Ham was out of this world.

Coop, may I be the second to circle this date on my calender.

You know your shit.

Tracy Ham and Adrian Peterson (Georgia Southern not OU) were some of the most amazing CFB players I have ever seen.

Granted, the venue in Statesboro is not Athens, but I have witnessed incredible hip-sliding, jukeing….. “who is your daddy”…“see ya”….runs from these individuals.

I know Tech is afraid to play the Eagles, as are Auburn and FSU (again). Correct me if I am wrong….aged synapses.

Would Clemson play them? GSU will go anywhere, anywho and anytime.

Fuck Rick Reilly!!!

#60, I agree. Who gives a rats ass about Rick Reilly? Now if it had been Pat Riley, the ultimate in cool, in an Armani suit with a hooker on each arm, You would have had a story!

Clemson was never scared of scheduling powerful I-AA teams, as we opened with Furman in their national championship year in ’’89, and then opened up with them, again, the following season.

South Carolina, on the other hand, stopped scheduling Furman after the Paladins beat the Gamecocks in ’81 or ’82. South Carolina stopped scheduling The Citadel after the Bulldogs beat South Carolina in ’89 or ’90, I forget.

I loved when Furman would play Ga Southern in the national championship games, played twice in the 80s, because it really was good vs. evil, or Duke vs. UNLV circa ’90 and ’91.

Clean cut, intelligent young men versus Erk Russell’s thugs, outlaws, and kids who could not read and write at a 5th grade level, which I believe is how Russell secured Tracy Ham’s services.

Russell’s strategy of picking up kids with SEC talent, or a little below, who could not make the grades to get into SEC schools worked very well.

After reading this, I checked the picture on the website link. Riley’s girlfriend can be confused with a stripper. Not a high end Cheetah III stripper, but one of those older broads that worked in Daytona in the mid-80’s when I was on Spring Break.

It was back in the mid-80’s that I enjoyed reading Riley on the backpage of SI and oogling strippers, then I grew up. Kind of like when in college I figured out that Jim Bouten was a douchebag, and I was only reading Ball Four for the cool cuss word combinations and stories of Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford.

The bleached blond hair and the highly visible tan lines with the revealing dress do it for me. While one would not turn down playing tonsil hockey with her, I wouldn’t miss a good football game over her, and would have to have a few shots or beers to get things going.

Too bad about Riley, now he’s just another douchebag. Now that he is on the WWL, when is he going to show up on Around The Horn? He would fit in well with that group.

What kind of fuckety fuck, fuck ass blog is this, you fucking fucker? Fuck YOU!! Fuck! Fucking lame ass fucking fuck……

I’m ready for my interview now, Mr. Costas. I’d be happy to debate Mr. Riley and his skank ho. I’d bring my skank, but we’re divorced now.

Stripper? You make the call. (scroll down)
http://youbeenblinded.com/espn-the-magazine-chad-johnson-rick-reilly-party/

Look, You Know You Shouldn’t even talk about brett favre cause you you jelous prick. it just pisses me off. so why don’t you just shuv it. just because you don’t have a carrer like favre doesn’t me you can open your huge damn mouth.