[68skylark]

Can't argue with anything you've written. And I share your distaste with the writing of Rick Reilly, also. Reilly is not nearly as bad as Rall (Rall is in a class by himself, thank goodness). But I really don't care for Reilly's writing, and it makes all of SI look tainted to me.

[driftless]

I was a subscriber to SI for many years, but I quit more than a decade ago. Two reasons: (1) I simply didn't care as much about sports as I got older and (2) I noticed quite a bit of agenda-driven "journalism" creeping into the pages of a number of sports mags I subscribe including SI. So it was no surprise to me to see the out and out leftist slant of the likes of Reilly take over many sports mags.

From what I've observed many or most of the todays sportswriters are as leftist oriented as their counterparts in the regular media. It stands to reason...leftists hire leftists. Reilly is just another self-absorbed leftist dolt who still thinks it's 1955, McCarthy is persecuting poor, struggling lefties, and the KKK is still lynching blacks and other minorities. The mostly downtrodden underclass of decent Americans can't get a break from the evil white minority who are composed of about five rich guys and a bunch of ignorant, gun-toting goobers for the rest. But Rall is in a class by himself as an enemy of the country with the other members of the far left. Nothing less than. These insects are as dangerous as the Islamo-fascists.