RICK REILLY, 42, is in his 15th year as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He is the current National SportsWill Rhame offers one of the most unique educational experiences ever. As the Co-author of Business Golf, and a nationally recognized speaker and trainer, Will can show you how to play the perfect round of business golf no matter what your handicap is.writer of the Year, an honor he has previously won five times. He is the author of the weekly "Life of Reilly" column which runs on the last page of SI. It's the first such signed weekly opinion column in the magazine's history. Publishers Weekly called him, "an indescribable amalgam of Dave Barry, Jim Murray, and Lewis Grizzard, with the timing of Jay Leno and the wit of Johnny Carson."
His current novel, Slo-Mo: My Untrue Story, (Doubleday) a farce on the NBA, is a "romp that could have been written only by someone who has seen the game from the inside," according to the Denver Post. His first novel, Missing Links, (Doubleday) a comic golf romance, was hailed by the New York Times as "three laughs per page." It has been printed seven times in hardcover, eight in paperback, and was sold to TNT for an upcoming feature-length movie. His next three screenplays will be for Warner Bros.
Reilly has won numerous awards in his 20-year writing career, including the prestigious New York Newspaper Guild's Page One Award for Best Magazine Story. He is the co-author of The Boz, the best-selling autobiography of bad-boy Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth; Gretzky, with hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings; I'd Love to but I Have a Game with NBC announcer Marv Albert, and the The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley. He is co-author of the screenplay Leatherheads, a comic romance centered on the 1927 Duluth Eskimos of the fledgling NFL.
Reilly began his career in 1979 taking phoned-in high-school volleyball scores for his hometown Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera while a sophomore at the University of Colorado, from which he was graduated in 1981. He wrote for two years at the Camera, two more at the Denver Post and two more at the Los Angeles Times, before moving to Sports Illustrated in 1985.
He has written about everything from ice skater Katarina Witt behind the Iron Curtain to actor Jack Nicholson in the front row, from wrestling priests in Mexico City to women caddies in Japan, from playing golf with President Clinton to playing golf with O.J. Simpson and back again. He has three times had the disagreeable task of accompanying the models on the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. He is currently in a Miller Lite ad with swimsuit cover girl Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
Winner of the National Sports Writer of the Year Award
