Rick Reilly has been described as a combination of sports analyst, stand-up comic, and satirist whose journalism and book-length works have led a writer for Publishers Weekly to declare that Reilly "may well be the funniest sportswriter in America." A...

Byline: Penny Parker, Rocky Mountain News Sports Illustrated columnist and Denver dweller Rick Reilly appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman Monday night to talk about his new book Hate Mail From Cheerleaders, but Letterman leapt at the chance to talk...

Byline: Penny Parker, Rocky Mountain News AAward-winning sports columnist and Denver dweller Rick Reilly will make the move from Sports Illustrated to ESPN on June 1. The Rocky first reported the move on Saturday, but Reilly wasn't talking till the deal...

Two medical students are fighting malaria in west Africa by raising money through their organization to buy and distribute mosquito nets there.Death inspired them to act. Andy Sherman, who once worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, lost three of his friends there to...

During Andy Sherman's two-year Peace Corps service in Thioke Thian, Senegal, 9-year-old Salimatou helped him navigate village life and learn the language, telling him words in Pulaar as he'd point at objects. But after returning from a stint working in another village, Sherman learned the...