Sports
- Sparky Anderson (1934-2010), baseball player and manager; born in Bridgewater
- Dallas Clark (born 1979), tight end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; born in Sioux Falls
- Dave Collins
- Justin Duchscherer (born 1977) starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles; born in Aberdeen
- Mark Ellis (born 1977) second baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers; born in Rapid City
- Terry Francona (born 1959) former baseball player and former manager of the Boston Red Sox, born in Aberdeen
- Chad Greenway, (1983) born in Mount Vernon; linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings
- Jared Reiner Tripp, South Dakota
- Becky Hammon
- Jason Kubel (born 1982) outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks; born in Belle Fourche
- Ward Lambert (1888–1958), college basketball coach; born in Deadwood
- Brock Lesnar (1977) born in Webster
- Mike Martz (born 1951) former NFL head coach and offensive coordinator; born in Sioux Falls
- Mike Miller (born 1980), basketball player for the Miami Heat; born in Mitchell
- Billy Mills
- Eric Piatkowski
- Norm Van Brocklin (1926–1983), football player; born in Eagle Butte
- Ben Leber
- Adam Vinatieri (born 1972), National Football League placekicker, born in Yankton
- Dale Moss born in Brandon, South Dakota
- Tim Miles (born 1966), Big Ten college basketball coach; born in Huron
Randy Lewis (born 1959) 1984 Olympic Gold Medal, Freestyle Wrestling (Rapid City, South Dakota)
- Riley Reiff Football player, Detroit Lions Parkston, South Dakota
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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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)