Hate Mail from Cheerleaders: Further Adventures in the Life of Reilly

Long-time Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly has collected 100 of his favorite articles from the last seven years. Frequently, Reilly's stories are not so much about sports as about the people who love sports or who live around sports, and they are by turns both touching and riotously funny.

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Open - Andre Agassi +w When Andre Agassi burst onto the tennis scene in the late 1980s, with his brash...  read more

2.  My Life Outside the Ring - Hulk Hogan +w 3.  Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer +w 4.  Moneyball - Michael Lewis +w 5.  The Yankee Years - Joe Torre +w 6.  When the Game Was Ours - Larry Bird +w 7.  Quiet Strength - Tony Dungy +w 8.  Iceman - Chuck Liddell +w 9.  Sandy Koufax - Jane Leavy +w 10.  Driven from Within - Michael Jordan +w

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Going Rogue - Sarah Palin +w Some might recall that Barack Obama rose to prominence on the strength of two...  read more

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