Sports
- Mike Adamle - American football player - Northwestern Wildcats and NFL - also a television and radio sports reporter and WWE wrestling announcer
- Tony Adamle - American football star - Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns(member of 1950 and 1954 NFL Championship teams)
- Frank Brimsek - ice hockey player
- Bob Golic - American football star (Notre Dame Fighting Irish and NFL - Cleveland Browns, among other teams) - also an actor Saved by the Bell: The College Years
- Mike Golic - American football star (Notre Dame Fighting Irish and NFL - Philadelphia Eagles, among other teams) - also ESPN radio personality and host on Mike and Mike in the Morning
- Randy Gradishar - American football star (Ohio State Buckeyes and Denver Broncos)
- John Gruden - ice hockey player
- Eric Heiden - Olympic speed skater, winner of five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Luke Hochevar - athlete, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wally Judnich - Baseball player
- Joe Kuhel - Baseball player and manager
- Les Kuntar - Ice hockey player
- Ken Novak - American football player
- Anton Peterlin - soccer player
- Peter Vidmar - gymnast, U.S. team captain and winner of two gold medals and a silver medal in the 1984 Olympics, was the highest scoring gymnast in U.S. history (with a 9.89 average)
- Fritzie Zivic - boxer
- Mark Zupan - athlete, wheelchair rugby team captain
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“...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 end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)