Sports columnist Rick Reilly will receive the 15th annual Damon Runyon Award, the Denver Press Club said Thursday.
Reilly will accept the award at a banquet in his honor April 17 at the Marriott Denver City Center. The club gives the award to a journalist whose work best exemplifies the vivid writing style of Damon Runyon, an early member of the Denver Press Club in 1906-07.
“This is a special choice,” club president Bruce Goldberg said in a news release. “Not only is Rick our first-ever Colorado winner, he is one of the nation’s best sportswriters, just as Runyon was in his era.”
Reilly joined ESPN in 2008 to write for ESPN The Magazine. Previously he wrote for 22 years for Sports Illustrated. Prior to that, Reilly worked for The Denver Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Boulder Daily Camera, where he started his career.
Tickets for the banquet are $100 and can be purchased online at blacktie-colorado.com.
