[Dudd]

He has to have the best job in America. Write one page a week about whatever you want, use whatever stupid gimmick you want to fill up space, you don't have to actually put any thought into the story, just make sure it's about somebody who's sick or disabled and tailor the story around a few emotional quotes. An hour later, and bam, your week is wide open.

Simmons is a horrible comparison, at his peak he was probably writing more in a single week than Reilly wrote in a few months. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't remember reading anything by Rick Reilly other than the SI last page.