Sports
Windsor's sports fans tend to support the major professional sports league teams in either Detroit or Toronto, but the city itself is home to the following youth, minor league, post-secondary and professional teams. Many Windsor sports teams at the amateur level are sponsored by the AKO Fraternity.
- Windsor Spitfires (Ontario Hockey League Major Junior "A" 2009 & 2010 Memorial Cup Champions)
- Windsor Express (National Basketball League of Canada)
- Windsor Clippers (Ontario Lacrosse Association Junior "B")
- Windsor AKO Fratmen (Canadian Junior Football League)
- Windsor Lancers (Canadian Interuniversity Sport)
- St. Clair Saints (Canadian Colleges Athletic Association)
- Windsor Rogues Rugby (Ontario Rugby Union (ORU))
- Windsor FC Nationals (Ontario Youth Soccer League)(Western Ontario Youth Soccer League)
- Central Combat Sports (Mixed Martial Arts)
- Windsor Ultimate (non-profit Ultimate Frisbee league)
- Windsor Stars (Canadian Soccer League)
- Border City Brawlers (Women's Flat Track Derby Association)
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)