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)
“...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)
“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)