Every week, when Sports Illustrated’s 21 million readers open up their magazine, many turn to the last page because that is where to find SI’s most well-known feature: the Life of Reilly column written by bestselling author Rick Reilly. A twenty-one-year veteran of the magazine and ten-time Sportswriter of the Year, Reilly got over SI’s back again page in 1998, and his column instantly attracted a committed market who helped make his 1990 book, THE LIFE SPAN of Reilly, a New York Moments bestseller.

This new collection includes 100 of Reilly’s favorite columns through the last six years, along with an introduction by Lance Armstrong. The title of the reserve signifies the solid audience response his columns typically generate (he composed a column saying that cheerleading is not a sport, and there was a light-hearted backlash). Alternately side-splitting and heart-warming, but always opinionated and provocative, this reserve brings together the best function by the very best columnist available.