That Was Fast: Rick Reilly Goes to ESPN, Starts in June 2008

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Reilly bolts SI for ESPN
Published 10/20/2007 by Howard Burns at SPORTS COUCH POTATO
... According to our friends at The Big Lead, longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly is leaving the magazine and going to ESPN. ...

Saturday reading
Published 10/20/2007 by Thermocaster at The Meaningful Collateral
... to agony in a very short period of time. I can’t tell you how enraged I am that we’re now going to be force-fed Rick Reilly’s smarmy, self-important bullshit on ESPN on a daily basis. ...

Rick Reilly: ESPN Fills Badly Needed Smart-Alecky Middle-Aged White Guy Quota
Published 10/20/2007 by Sussman at Deadspin
... That Was Fast: Rick Reilly Goes to ESPN, Starts in June 2008* [The Big Lead] ...

Changing Of The Guard At Sports Illustrated
Published 10/20/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Rick Riely Headed to ESPN, the world wide leader in personality acquisitions
Published 10/21/2007 by Travis at The Indy Sports Blog
... http://thebiglead.com/?p=3466 ...

Rick Reilly: The columnist to be named later in the Dan Patrick trade
Published 10/22/2007 by Beau Dure at Sports Scope
We didn't see it late Friday, but The Big Lead did (and added some details from a couple of sources): ...

The Big Cover
Published 10/24/2007 by Jack at The Shamrock Headband
... If Glenn Rivers wins Coach of the Year, he will have two more COY trophies than Jerry Sloan, and one more than Phil Jackson. Glenn Rivers will not win Coach of the Year. It is infinitely more likely that he will be fired by mid-December if the C's go on a five-game losing streak. Glenn Rivers will not win Coach of the Year. He is a very, very, very bad basketball coach. Glenn Rivers will not win Coach of the Year. I'm going to stop saying this now because I can't believe someone's even brought it up. Is this some sort of Karl Rove-ian way for SI to divert attention away from the high-profile Rick Reilly defection? Next they'll be mis-reporting Kobe Bryant trade rumors in order to alter the mid-term elections. SI also predicts Danny Ainge as Executive of the Year, but he pretty much wrapped that up on July 31. Barring some sort of catastrophic injury EOY is Ainge's to lose. ...

Top 20 Sports Blog Stories of The Year
Published 11/10/2007 by airraid81 at Juiced Sports Blog*: Writing Enhanced by Flaxseed Oil
... Originally reported by Neil Best of Newsday's Watchdog, The Big Lead had the most in depth coverage . TBL emailed Reilly to get the details on where he was going (ESPN), when he would start (June, 2008), and also found that ESPN was offering $2 million a year vs $1.5 million at SI. 2. The Big Lead: ...

Johnny Quest Thinks Rick Reilly Is A Sellout
Published 5/10/2008 by Losloseeboy at Tirico Suave
... 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 ...