Sports
- Irving Baxter, winner of two gold medals and three silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics
- Anita DeFrantz, 1976 women's eight-oared shell bronze medalist, the first woman and the first African-American to represent the United States on the International Olympic Committee, IOC's first female vice president, and chair of the Commission on Women and Sports.
- Marvin Goldklang, Minority owner of the New York Yankees
- John Heisman, American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
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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)
“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)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)