Rick Reilly Honors the Hoyts

If you enjoy great sportswriting, you've read Rick Reilly. If you follow endurance sports even casually, you probably know of the Hoyts and have seen 65-year-old Dick push his 43-year-old disabled son, Rick, in marathons--sometimes after towing him through a 2.4-mile swim and peadaling him 112 miles on the handlebars. This week's Sports Illustrated includes a Reilly Father's Day column on the Hoyts.

"This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992 -- only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time. 'No question about it,' Rick types. 'My dad is the Father of the Century.'"