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The Digital Footprints of Ten of the Greatest Living Legends in Sports

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

Hello there PeekScore faithful. The premise of this entry could not be simpler. The staff here at the PeekScore blog compiled a list of ten living, international superstar athletes; 7 retired, 3 still active. Each considered at least great by most, and by many considered to be the very greatest of all time at his chosen sport. With the list compiled – after some amount of debate here at the office – we set about sorting these esteemed gentlemen not according to our relatively subjective assessments of their athletic prowess or records, but according to their PeekScores.

To varying degrees each of these gentlemen is a national, and in many cases an international, brand. As such, nearly all has at a minimum an official website, and often a website connected to a more corporate, charitable, and/or commercial venture. All are, to varying degrees, headline worthy and well documented throughout the web, and their mostly healthy PeekScores surely reflect this. Some have official Twitter and/or Facebook accounts, and the international superstar topping our list has both, with followers on each numbering in the millions. In the relatively social media shy company of the remainder of this list, his victory was assured.

I know this is a matter where many have strong opinions. What are yours? Who doesn’t belong on our list? Who would you have included instead? Who might you have expected to see have a higher PeekScore? Or lower? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Sport PeekScore
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Sachin Tendulkar Cricket 10.00 / 10
2

Tiger Woods Golf 9.56 / 10
3

Wayne Gretzky Hockey 9.09 / 10
4

Michael Jordan Basketball 9.07 / 10
5

Roger Federer Tennis 8.95 / 10
6

Muhammad Ali Boxing 8.62 / 10
7

Pelé
 Football/Soccer 8.05 / 10
8

Diego Maradona Football/Soccer 8.05 / 10
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Jim Brown NFL Football 8.04 / 10
10

Willie Mays Baseball 6.01 / 10

2011 NBA Playoffs Second Round Matchup: Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat

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Recently, we paid a sort of tribute to the Boston Celtics for their quite decisive victory over PeekYou’s hometown team, the New York Knickerbockers Basketball Club. While we sure as heck are through with the colloquially named “Knicks,” as we are not the sorts to truck with losers, we are not, as it turns out, through with the Celtics. Boston’s beloved basketball club (beloved by Bostonians, and presumably their mothers, in any event) find themselves facing a contest – conveniently, given their backgrounds, a contest of basketball ability – against the Miami Heat. The Heat are, as countless hack sportwriters have pointed out, “on fire,” and “red hot,” and “blazing,” and “spicier than a very spicy pepper, like say, for example, one of those ghost peppers, which I think I saw mentioned on the Food Network, which are supposed to be, like, really, really, crazy hot.” The gist of all these poetics being that, generally speaking, the Heat are delivering on the promise brazenly emblazoned across their jerseys.

This series of games is eagerly anticipated by those who anticipate such things, and the speculation runs rampant among these sorts. Now, we could join these anxious ranks and prattle on endlessly over what may come to pass. We could sit around and debate the relative merits of the Heat’s celebrated, youthful “Big 3″ (Dwayne Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh) vs. the Celtics own aging “Big 3,” of likely future Hall of Famers (Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen). We could toss around the basketball stats, and we could holler ourselves hoarse, bickering into the wee hours over who is “better at basketball.” We could do all sorts of things. Where, though, would any of that get us?

So far as we’re concerned, the games are an afterthought. No speculation necessary, as PeekYou has already determined – within a statistically insignificant margin of error – the series’ certain victor. So confident are we in our results here, we view the games themselves as little more than a needless exhibition of hoopla, and one decidedly redundant. Stay home, fellas, PeekYou’s got this one. We have hard science on our side. There’s no guesswork needed, no amateur soothsayers, nor armchair sports analysts need speak up.

Here we present the Heat’s and the Celtic’s stars, ranked according to their PeekScores. While from these lists we can determine the merits of each player individually, for our purposes here we suggest you observe each team as a whole. We’d never encourage our readership to partake of games of chance, as we are not a company of vice but one of virtue. If you were to, however, acting entirely on your own agency, place a gentleman’s (or lady’s) wager based upon the outcome of the below showdown – meaning, a simple handshake venture, entered into between yourself and a trusted colleague, where not one red cent and only a modicum of pride is at stake – you might be finding yourself feeling pretty darned gentlemanly indeed, when all is said and done.

Fine then. Enough dilly-dallying. On to the basketball.

To start, the Miami Heat…

Picture Name Bio PeekScore


LeBron James With too many accolades to pick just one, James has – not without some well publicized controversy – been with the Heat since 2010.


Dwayne Wade Sports Illustrated‘s Sportsman of the Year in 2006, Wade has been with the Heat since 2003.


Mario Chalmers Voted Most Outstanding Player of the 2008 NCAA Championship, Chalmers has been with the Heat since 2008.


Chris Bosh A five-time NBA All-Star, Bosh has been with the Heat since 2010.


Eddie House A former ASU star, House has been with the Heat, for his second tenure with them (having played for them from 2000-2003) since 2010.


Zydrunas Ilgauskas A two-time NBA All-Star, Ilgauskas has been with the Heat since 2010.

All in all a very respectable showing from the Heat. The Big 3 have brought with them big scores, as expected, and have handily carried the Heat through to an overall strong demonstration of digital might.

Will champagne corks be heard popping throughout South Beach tonight? Well, very possibly. But not necessarily because of this. Let’s see how the Celtics fare…

Picture Name Bio PeekScore


Shaquille O’Neal 39 year old star of Kazaam, O’Neal’s been with the Celtics since 2010.


Paul Pierce Pierce is a nine time All-Star, and has been with the Celtics for the entirety of his 13 year career.


Rajon Rondo Voted to the NBA All-Defensive Team the past two years, Rondo has been with the Celtics since 2006.


Kevin Garnett NBA Defensive Player of the Year in the 2007-2008 season, Garnett has been with the Celtics since 2007.


Ray Allen Ten time All-Star, and He Got Game co-star, Allen has been with the Celtics since 2007.


Glen Davis A former LSU star, Davis has been with the Celtics since 2007.

As is plainly clear, the Celtics have emerged victorious. From this you can extrapolate points spreads, how many games the series will run, and whatever other, more granular, results you desire. I’m afraid we can’t hold your hand through all of the math, and besides, where would be the fun in that?

In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that PeekYou’s CEO is a Boston Celtics fan. This fact in no way influenced this honest and fair battle, nor the conclusions drawn from its outcome. Additionally, this entry was not written under duress nor threat of termination. We just report them as we find them.