Johnny Quest Thinks Rick Reilly Is A Sellout

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 Johnny Quest Thinks Rick Reilly Is A Sellout
Fucking sue me, I listened to Less Than Jake back in ‘01. But the song really says it all. As we all know, Ricky took a deal from ESPN that offers a “ridonkulous” salary, which is roughly $2 million a year. Well, we knew that Ricky bashed ESPN in an interview with GELF magazine. But check out the [...] [link]

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What Rick Reilly Used to Think About ESPN
Published 5/12/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... As we near the much-anticipated June debut of Rick Reilly’s work at ESPN, Tirico Suave brings us this video from 2004 in which Reilly, then a globe-trotting columnist at Sports Illustrated, said the following about the WWL: “[ESPN] is in a lot of ways conducting journalism-by-rolodex … they’re in bed with all these leagues … ESPN really can’t give you the hard-nosed story about MLB … ESPN can’t break a negative NFL story because they want the [TV] contract for the next year … same with the NBA - they’re in bed with the ...

It's Amazing How Quickly Money Will Make You Change Your Mind
Published 5/12/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
Tirico Suave has a great video today of one of ESPN's newest employees Rick Reilly explaining what he thought about the network back in 2004 and it couldn't be more telling about Reilly's motives these days..... ...

Does Rick Reilly Have Integrity? You Be The Judge
Published 5/12/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
TIRICO SUAVE is the source of this video of Rick Reilly in 2004: Apparently Mr. Reilly had two million reasons (per 12 mos.) to change his mind about ESPN.

Rick Reilly Bashes ESPN
Published 5/12/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... This is quite a video put together by the boys at Tirico Sauve. It's Rick Reilly in 2004 giving us his opinion on ESPN at Point Loma Nazarene University. Reilly's anything but kind to The Leader. ...

Before He Worked There, Rick Reilly Thought ESPN Was in Bed With Sports Leagues
Published 5/12/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... is about to start working for ESPN. But Reilly hasn't always thought highly of the Worldwide Leader, as he expressed in this 2004 interview: ...

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