Sports
- Nate "Tiny" Archibald, former NBA player (master's degree from Fordham)
- Steve Bellán, first Latin American to play Major League Baseball
- Peter A. Carlesimo, former Executive Director, National Invitation Tournament
- P.J. Carlesimo, college and professional basketball coach
- Tom Courtney, two-time Olympic Games gold medalist, held world record in 880-yard run
- Ed Danowski, NFL player for the New York Giants
- Frankie Frisch, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Pete Harnisch, former Major League All-Star pitcher
- Bob Hassmiller, Consensus Second Team All-American basketball player in 1939
- Harry Jacunski, NFL player, college football coach
- Vince Lombardi, football coaching legend, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- John Mara, President and COO, New York Giants (law degree from Fordham)
- Wellington Mara, former owner of the New York Giants, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Joe McCluskey, Olympic Games bronze medalist, USATF Hall of Famer
- John Mulcahy, Olympic Games gold and silver medalist
- Dan O'Sullivan, former NBA journeyman
- Smush Parker, NBA player for the Miami Heat (attended, no degree)
- John Skelton, current professional American football player for the Arizona Cardinals.
- Sara Whalen, former professional soccer player for the New York Power and US Women's National team. (master's degree from Fordham)
- Alex Wojciechowicz, Pro Football Hall of Famer, College Football Hall of Famer
- John Wolyniec, Major League Soccer player for the Red Bull New York
- Ken Charles, former NBA player, Buffalo Braves and Atlanta Hawks
- Kurt Sohn, former NFL player, New York Jets
- Kevin Eakin, first with the NY Jets, played in NFL Europe, then CFL and now QB with Georgia Force of Arena Football League.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)