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| Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Reilly
Creator: Lance Armstrong
Publisher: Sports Illustrated
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 87009
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 318
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1933821124
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.449796
EAN: 9781933821122
ASIN: 1933821124
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent book. Rick Reilly is extremely gifted. July 30, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My husband gets sports illustrated every week, and every week I flip to the back and read the life of Reilly. What a great writer he is. I enjoyed this book very much.
100 Best of Rick Reilly July 18, 2007
I have both of Rick Reilly's books, and loved this one as much as the first. Very touching. mia rose
 4.5 Stars.... Not just for sports fans: far more profound than you'd think July 16, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the second book by Rick Reilly that collects the best of his weekly Spors Illustraded back-page column. "Hate Mail From Cheerleaders" (320 pages) brings exactly 100 of those columns, from the last 7 years, in no particular order or chronology.
Some of these columns are simply funny and quick-for-a-laugh (such as "White Like Me" on why it's ok to mock white guys but not blacks or Asians, or "He Loves Himself Barry Much", which needs no explaning). Others, though, are meant to make bigger points ("Blind Justice" on the Nets' Jason Williams "accidetnally" shooting his limo driver). Yet other columns are inspirational, and that's putting it mildly: young kids living with certain handicaps yet overachieving with help of others ("Trumpeting the Father of the Year", "Strongest Dad in the World", etc.), assisting a good cause such as collecting money for mosquito nets in Nigeria ("Nothing But Nets"), etc.
The great thing is that for most of the columns, Reily gives an updated Postscript. In the postscript of his controversial 2004 column on the death of NFL player Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, Reilly writes "I don't write about sports. I write about people who happen to be in sports. I write about human joy, sorrow, religion and politics as it weaves itseld through sports." This book is HIGHLY recommended for anyone looking for a good summer book to read on the beach or wherever.
Husband loved this book!! July 12, 2007
This was a gift to my husband and he laughed all the way through it! Kept telling me bits and pieces. I will read it soon. DEFINITELY a book to read and reread!
One word: Awesome July 11, 2007
100 of Reilly's best articles ranging from the heart wrenching sentimental stories to his comical sense of usage in sarcasm and his own aura of enthralling the reader. You will not be disappointed in picking up this book.
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