In Sports
- Alex Higgins (1949–2010, nicknamed "Hurricane Higgins"), Northern Irish snooker player
- Christopher Higgins, American hockey player
- David Higgins, Irish golfer
- John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
- Johnnie Lee Higgins, free agent wide receiver in the NFL
- Mark Higgins, British rally car driver
- Pinky Higgins, baseball player, manager, and scout
- Shaun Higgins, Australian rules footballer
- Roy Higgins, Australian jockey
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)