Take Rick Reilly ... please, as the old joke goes. Seriously, Reilly is a great sportswriter and I will probably never reach his level of success, but can he please chill out about himself?
Reilly, the ex-SI superstar who left for supposed greener pastures at ESPN, where he has become a much smaller fish in a much bigger fish tank, is hurting over the whole Lance Armstrong matter.
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From reading a recent column, Reilly seems more upset about being duped by Armstrong himself than the entire matter overall.
"...14 years of defending a man? And in the end, being made to look like a chump?," Reilly wrote, after indicating he received an apology from the former star cyclist who issued a 2 1/2 hour mea culpa on Oprah's TV network.
Should the issue be over YOU being lied to ... the great Rick Reilly, or EVERYONE being fooled?
At the end of the day, however, this will all go away and you will continue to have enjoy a remarkable career Rick.
Lance and his "real" victims, his sponsors and close associates, have real pieces to pick up from this mess though. Et tu Rick? ... not so much.
Sorry if I seem cold-hearted over this, but it just seems like you have gotten tons of good copy over Lance Armstrong over the years, even if you were on the wrong side of things in retrospect.
Move on ... back to your cushy gig at ESPN, or better still, return to SI, where you should never have left to begin with.
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