Sports
- Gunner (American football), an American football player tasked with sprinting to tackle a kick returner
- Gunner (wrestler), professional wrestler also known as Phill Shatter
- Gunner Scott, professional wrestler also known as Brent Albright
- Gunners F.C., Zimbabwean football club
- "The Gunner", nickname given to former Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Bob Prince
- The Gunners, nickname for Arsenal F.C., a London football club
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athleticsa complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and powerthe womens programs are just as doomed as the mens are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if thats the kind of success for womens sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)