Tiger, Meet My Sister...: And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said - Hardcover

Reilly, Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399171258 ISBN 13: 9780399171253

Publisher: Blue Rider Press, 2014

Synopsis

Rick Reilly has been called “one of the funni­est humans on the planet—an indescribable amalgam of Dave Barry, Jim Murray, and Lewis Grizzard, with the timing of Jay Leno and the wit of Johnny Carson” (Publishers Weekly). In Tiger, Meet My Sister, Reilly com­piles the best of his columns from his last five years with ESPN, columns that will make you laugh, cry—and quite a few that may make you want to throw this book across the room. Rick Reilly tends to get under people’s skin like that.

He has no compunction telling readers, in his singular quick-witted style, how he really feels about some of the most popular sports figures of our time. Wondering about quarterback Jay Cutler? “Cutler is the kind of guy you just want to pick up and throw into a swimming pool, which is exactly what Peyton Manning and two linemen did one year at the Pro Bowl.” Or how about Tiger Woods? “Sometimes you wonder where Tiger Woods gets his public-relations advice. Gary Busey?” But for every brazen takedown, Reilly has written a heartwarming story of the power of sports to heal the wounded and lift the downtrodden: the young Ravens fan with cancer who called the plays for a few—victorious—games in 2012, or the onetime top NFL recruit who was finally exonerated after serving five years for a crime he didn’t commit.

With a new introduction and updates from Reilly on his most talked-about col­umns, as well as his expert opinion on athlete tattoos, NFL cheerleaders, and running with the bulls in Pamplona, Tiger, Meet My Sister showcases an unparalleled sportswriter at the top of his game.

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About the Author

Eleven-time National Sportswriter of the Year Rick Reilly is a front-page columnist for ESPN.com. He is the author of 10 books, including the New York Times bestsellers Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, Missing Links, and Who’s Your Caddy?

Reviews

Yes, this is just a sportswriter’s clip book, but when the sportswriter is Rick Reilly, the clips are not just clips. A longtime Sports Illustrated staffer and the author of one of the funniest golf novels ever published, Missing Links (1996), Reilly is now a columnist for ESPN.com, and this volume gathers the best of his work there over the last five years. Yes, there are quite a few columns about the nice guys Reilly has encountered on the sports beat (quarterback Tim Tebow, for one; Augusta National caddie Joe Collins, for another), but, let’s face it, we’re here mainly for the other kind of columns, the ones that give it where it hurts to the not-so-nice superstars of the sporting world: Lance Armstrong, whom Reilly defended for years until he didn’t; Michael Jordan (“Jordan’s Hall of Fame talk was the Exxon Valdez of speeches”); and, of course, Tiger Woods (“Sometimes you wonder where Tiger Woods gets his public-relations advice. Gary Busey?”). But, finally, it doesn’t matter if this guy is celebrating nice or lambasting not nice. He nails it every time, and he usually leaves us laughing. --Bill Ott

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Rider Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399171258
• ISBN 13: 9780399171253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368