List of People From New Orleans - Sports

Sports

  • Bo McCalebb, Macedonian basketball player who plays for Montepaschi Siena
  • Blair Barbier, former baseball player for the Chicago Cubs organization
  • Tom Benson, current owner of the New Orleans Saints
  • Will Clark, former Major League Baseball star, Infielder
  • Ernie Danjean, former Green Bay Packers linebacker
  • David Dixon, professional sports advocate for the New Orleans Saints, the Louisiana Superdome, USFL, World Championship Tennis
  • Scott Dohmann, pitcher currently a free agent
  • Corey Dowden, former National Football League defensive back
  • Clyde Drexler, former NBA star, Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
  • Bobby Duhon, former National Football League running back and Tulane University quarterback
  • John Fourcade, former National Football League quarterback
  • Marshall Faulk, football star (St. Louis Rams)
  • Steve Foley, former defensive back for the Denver Broncos
  • Matt Forté, featured running back for the Chicago Bears professional football team
  • Nolan Franz, former Green Bay Packers wide receiver
  • Eddie Garcia, former Green Bay Packers placekicker
  • Danny Granger, forward for the Indiana Pacers
  • Chris Henry, former National Football League wide receiver
  • Chris Horton, Safety, Washington Redskins
  • Tory James, cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals
  • Avery Johnson, former National Basketball Association player, former coach of the Dallas Mavericks
  • Shaun King, former NFL quarterback
  • Kerry Kittles, former National Basketball Association player for the New Jersey Nets
  • Michael Lewis, former New Orleans Saints Wide receiver, Kick Returner
  • Rydell Malancon, former National Football League linebacker
  • Archie Manning, former New Orleans Saints quarterback, father of Peyton and Eli
  • Eli Manning, New York Giants quarterback
  • Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts quarterback
  • Pete Maravich, long-time player for the New Orleans Jazz professional basketball team
  • Sammy Martin, former New England Patriots running back
  • Sylvester McGrew, former Green Bay Packers defensive end
  • Greg Monroe, college basketball player for Georgetown University
  • Paul Morphy, world chess champion
  • Eddie Murray, prolific NFL placekicker
  • Mel Ott, Major League Baseball hall of famer
  • Micah Owings, MLB pitcher
  • Audrey Patterson, first African-American woman to win an Olympicmedal
  • Nate Singleton, former wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers
  • Neil Smith, former Defensive End Kansas City Chiefs
  • Kordell Stewart, quarterback
  • Ron Swoboda, former New York Mets outfielder
  • Ike Taylor, Cornerback, Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Taryn Terrell, WWE Diva, known as Tiffany on WWE's Smackdown! brand
  • Mike Wallace- wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Ron Washington, manager of the Texas Rangers
  • Reggie Wayne, wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts
  • Aeneas Williams, former corner back for the St. Louis Rams
  • John "Hot Rod" Williams, long-time professional basketball player

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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

    “The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
    —Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

    “...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
    —Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (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)