Sports
- Bill Wright (catcher), American baseball catcher for the Washington Nationals in 1887
- Bill Wright (coach), Tennessee Volunteers baseball head coach 1963−1981
- Bill Wright (outfielder) (born 1914), American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
- Will Wright (cyclist) (born 1973), Welsh cyclist
- William Wright (cricketer) (1909–1988), English cricketer
- William Wright (footballer) (born 1900), footballer for Exeter City and Huddersfield Town
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“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)
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While we may the sports of love;
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He at length our good will sever.”
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