Sports
- Michael Buczkowski, Current General Manager / Vice President of the Buffalo Bisons
- Tommy Colella, Football player
- Leroy Chollet, Basketball player
- Corey Herring '08 - Basketball player
- Robert A. MacKinnon ’50 – Former General Manager, Assistant Coach, New Jersey Nets
- Johnny McCarthy, NBA player and coach, also coached Golden Griffins Men's Basketball.
- Gerry Meehan, former NHL player and General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres;
- Michael Meeks, Basketball player
- Beth Phoenix -WWE Professional Wrestler
- Dick Poillon - Early National Football League player
- Michael F. Smrek ’85 – Former Professional basketball player, NBA Los Angeles Lakers
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s 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)