Love Twitter, do you? Think it's all the rage? Well, let me tell you a story about Twitter that will SHOCK AND ALARM YOU. For the past month or so, your editor at large took it upon himself (with the help of trusted companion Gourmet Spud) to create the "Rick Rielly" Twitter feed. Our goal: to test ...

Rick Reilly has an excellent article in ESPN about taking a grieving nephew to meet John Elway As locals, Cynthia and I took them to lunch at one of Elway’s restaurants so Jake could see all the jerseys and photos. The kid was so excited he hardly ate. And that was before a certain Hall of Fam...

Rick Reilly detests blogs, but loves Facebook apparently. Oh, and posting on his own blog (not a blog!) "Go Fish" where he publishes "occasional and random mind dumps from the brain of Rick Reilly." Last week Reilly finally succumbed to the whole "25 Random Things About Me" activity that's been popu...

Dr. Will Brinson wants to know if bloggers really hate Jesus, as one Rick Reilly seems to think. Head on over to Brahsome and take his pole. I mean poll. It's for science. SCIENCE! [Brahsome]...

Newsday's Neil Best caught up with Rick Reilly to talk about ESPN's "Mt. Rushmore Of Sports" thing and, of course, the conversation turned toward Reilly's favorite topics again: Bill Simmons and blogs. In the interview, Reilly attempted to put to rest all of these notions that he and the Sports Fell...

Site note: A UMHoops/MGoBlog joint CIL is tentatively on for tonight's Illinois game. Tip is at 8:30, game is on BTN, CIL gets going about 15-30 minutes before. Correction: Dennis Franklin wore #9, not #6 as claimed yesterday, in case you were looking for him in the afro-tastic team picture. Survey ...

Awful Announcing reveals that Rick Reilly will finally get the consistent face-time to justify his $17 million ESPN contract. America, lock up your Ed Hardy T-shirts and your dental metaphors because "Homecoming" is here. The ESPN press release says the new Friday night show will have the Rickster i...

Yesterday revealed the enormous amounts of Bill Simmons-related email sent to Deadspin and, true to form, more Bill Simmons conspiracy theories started rolling in immediately after it was published. The first one sent in was this: On the heels of your latest roundup of Simmons rumors, I thought this...

When I initially took over this site there was a lot of discussion amongst former and current editors about doing a weekly feature devoted entirely to Rick Reilly's ESPN column. It would be too easy to just pick apart its contents FJM-style (R.I.P), but given his hubris, his enormous contract, and t...

Yes, he's smug and overpaid. His commentary in the Home Run Derby was rather cringeworthy, and he just doesn't seem to fit on camera. Having said all that, Rick Reilly's slam poetry session on the British Open had moments of brilliance, and other times moments of anguish. "Bangers, pasties, and good...