Shoutouts: Robbie Keane profile, greatest athletes, baseball movies

Robbie Keane

Catching up on some Shoutouts from the last few days, I want to start with this long, detailed bio of Robbie Keane, which one of our resident soccer experts tells me is the best piece he’s read in a good long time.

The commenters agree. Willie Gannon’s take on the Tottenham Hotspur striker’s “14 years of a legend being taken for granted” thorough, entertaining and informative.

“You reminded me of some things I had long forgotten and taught me some things I never knew before,” commenter BD Condell wrote.

Who’s the greatest athlete in sports history? Any sport. David Daniels tried to answer that question in a well-researched slideshow that reminds — or teaches — us that Tom Glavine was taken ahead of Brett Hull in the NHL draft, Bob Gibson was a Harlem Globetrotter and Jim Thorpe was great at everything.

Jeffrey Beckmann, in Moneyball and the 25 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, shows how to jump on a current event and turn it into a relevant slideshow.