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:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“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)
“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)