- Red Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20 1917 - October 28 2006) was a highly successful and influential basketball coach of the BAA Washington Nationals, the NBA Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the NBA Boston Celtics. In the closing stages of his career, he worked as a front office executive and president of the Celtics until his death. As a coach, the son of an Russian Jewish immigrant won 938 games, a record at his retirement, and won nine titles with the Celtics, …
- David Eckstein
David Eckstein, (born January 20, 1975 in Sanford, Florida), is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is noted for his size, as he is a diminutive (for professional sports) 5' 7" (170 cm). Eckstein's name is prononuced (ECK-styne) and means "cornerstone" in German. His "entrance music" is Ludacris's "Number One Spot" (appropriate since Eckstein usually bats as the leadoff hitter) and Crystal Method's "Busy Child".
- Vin Scully
Vincent Edward "Vin" Scully (born November 29, 1927, in The Bronx, New York) is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball teams. In 50 seasons in Los Angeles (1958-2007), Vin Scully has become a beloved figure. His 57-year tenure with the Dodgers (1950-2007) is the longest of any broadcaster with a single club in professional sports history.
- Willie Anderson
Willie Lloyd Anderson Jr. (born January 8 1967 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. After attending the University of Georgia, he was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 10th pick of the 1988 NBA Draft. He played for the Spurs until the 1994-95 season when he was selected in the 1995 expansion draft by the Toronto Raptors.
- Terry Sawchuk
Terrance Gordon Sawchuk (December 28, 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-May 31, 1970 in New York City, New York, United States) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, and New York Rangers.
- Mateen Cleaves
Mateen Cleaves (born September 7 1977 in Flint, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics. Cleaves is most remembered for his brilliant career at Michigan State. Cleaves' No. 12 jersey was officially retired at Michigan State University on February 3, 2007 before the Michigan State-Ohio State game.
- Ndudi Ebi
Ndudi Ebi (born June 18, 1984 in London, England) is an English professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA. He committed to the University of Arizona, in the U.S., but reneged by making himself eligible for the NBA Draft. Ebi was selected out of Westbury Christian School by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round (26th pick overall) of the 2003 NBA Draft.
- Shandon Anderson
Shandon Rodriguez Anderson (born December 31, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA, currently a free agent who most recently played with the Miami Heat. He was drafted in the second round of the 1996 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz out of the University of Georgia, and has since played for the Jazz, the Houston Rockets, the New York Knicks and the Heat.
- Tiger Williams
David James "Tiger" Williams (born 3 February, 1954 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a former professional ice hockey who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1974-75 to 1987-88.
- Trev Alberts
Trev Alberts is entering his third season as a game and studio analyst for CBS College Sports Network. Alberts, a former NFL first-round draft choice, serves as a studio and game analyst for the network. He was previously at ESPN from 2002-2005, and CNN from 1997-2001. Born and raised in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Alberts went on to become a star linebacker at the University of Nebraska.
- Patty Berg
Patricia Jane Berg was a founding member and then leading player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended the University of Minnesota where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She took up golf in 1931 and began her amateur career in 1934, winning her first title that year - the Minneapolis City Championship.
- Joe Durant
Joe Durant (born April 7, 1964) is an American professional golfer. Durant was born in Pensacola, Florida. He has won four times on the PGA Tour. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
- Cliff Harris
Clifford Allen Harris (born November 12, 1948 in Fayetteville, Arkansas) is a former professional American football safety who played for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League for ten seasons.
- Angela Batinovich
Angela Batinovich is an American businesswoman. She is the majority shareholder and managing partner of the Portland LumberJax of the National Lacrosse League; the creator of "Bat's Daughter", a successful line of women's clothing; and the founder of AMBLA, INC., a company that invests in small start-up fashion lines. Her father, Robert Batinovich, is a successful real estate investor and manager.
- Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player, most recently of Milan. She has won three career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005. Her maiden title came in 2004, when she won the title in Sopot, beating Czech Klára Koukalová in the final in three sets. She also beat former world number one Swiss Martina Hingis in Australia at the beginning of the 2006 season.
- Casey Wasserman
Casey Wasserman (b. 1974) is an entertainment executive and owner of the Los Angeles Avengers Arena League football team. Born Casey Meyer, he is the son of the Los Angeles socialite and philanthropist Lynne Wasserman. Casey's parents were divorced and he took his mother's maiden name. His sister's name is Carol Ann Leif.
- Joy Fawcett
Joy Lynn Fawcett (born February 8, 1968) is an American professional soccer player. She joined the United States women's national soccer team (WNT) in 1987. A founding member of the WUSA, Fawcett retired from the WNT in 2004. She was the only WNT member to play all minutes of the 1995, 1999 and 2003 Women's World Cups, as well as the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. She was a highest scoring defender for the U.S. WNT.
- Cyril Dessel
Cyril Dessel is a French professional cyclist. He made his professional debut in 2000 with the Jelly Belly Cycling Team and later raced for the Jean Delatour and Phonak teams.<sup></sup> He is currently a member of the AG2R Prévoyance team.<sup>;</sup> In 2006, he won the Tour Méditerranéen on the UCI Europe Tour.<sup>;</sup> Then in the 2006 Tour de France, he finished second in the tenth stage of the race, …
- Aly Wagner
Aly Wagner (born August 10, 1980 in San Jose, California) is a midfielder for the United States Womens National Soccer Team. She began playing with the U.S. Women's National Team in 1998, while still a freshman at Santa Clara University. In 2001, she lead Santa Clara to the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, scoring the only goal in Santa Clara's 1-0 victory over perennial powerhouse North Carolina. She was awarded the Today's Top VIII Award as a member of the Class of 2003.
- Max Falkenstien
Max Falkenstien (April 9, 1924-) is one of the most recognizable voices in all of collegiate sports history. In his sixty year career at the University of Kansas (1946-2006), Falkenstien has covered over 1,750 men's basketball games and 650 men's football games - a span that included every game played in historic Allen Fieldhouse until his retirement and was one of the longest announcing tenures in sports.
- Ramiro Corrales
Ramiro Corrales (born March 12, 1977,in Salinas, California) is an American soccer player of Mexican heritage, who currently plays for Brann in the Norwegian Premier League.
- Arthur Ting
Dr. Arthur Ting is an orthopaedic surgeon and the team physician for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League and San Jose Sabercats of the Arena Football League. Dr. Ting is also the team orthopaedist for Menlo College, a small liberal arts school which competes on the NCAA Division III circuit (Northwest Conference) and NAIA circuit (California Pacific Conference). He currently lives in Palo Alto.
- Latoya Thomas
LaToya Monique Thomas (born July 6, 1981 in Greenville, Mississippi) is a professional basketball player. She currently plays for the Los Angeles Sparks in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
- Maros Kolpak
Maros Kolpak a Slovak handball player. His legal actions in Germany set a precedent for professional sports in Europe, known as Kolpak ruling, which have had a wide-ranging effect, especially in regards to English county cricket and British professional rugby. Kolpak was playing in Germany, but was discharged from his club because of a quota for non-European Union players set in the league.
- Cindy Parlow
Cindy Parlow (born May 8, 1978) is an American professional soccer player. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she played college soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a four-time All-American and member of three teams that won the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. She won the Hermann Trophy as outstanding female collegiate soccer player twice, in 1997 and 1998, and the ACC Female Athlete of the Year in 1999.
- Johnny Neumann
Carl John Neumann (born September 11, 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. At 6'6" and 200 pounds, he played the guard and forward positions.
- Mark Caguioa
Mark Anthony Caguioa (born on November 19, 1979 in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He plays for the Barangay Ginebra Kings, although he is currently on leave from the team due to his playing commitments to the Philippine national team. Known by many as The Spark, he is also known, along with backcourt tandem Jayjay Helterbrand, as one-half of the so-called, …
- Tim Murnane
Timothy Hayes Murnane (June 4 1852 - February 7 1917) was an American sportswriter specializing in baseball, regarded as the leading baseball writer at "The Boston Globe" for about thirty years until his death. At the same time, he organized and led professional sports leagues and helped govern the baseball industry. He had been a professional baseball player, and played several seasons in the major leagues, where he played as a first baseman and center fielder.
- Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson (Born January 9,1936, in Evanston, Illinois) is a former head coach of professional basketball in Europe. He is currently employed as an analyst of NBA basketball for Sportitalia. Nicknamed "The Coach" for his legendary legacy in Italian basketball environment.
- Joaquim Gomes
Joaquim Gomes (born December 23 1980, in Luanda, Angola) is an Angolan professional basketball player. He played in professionally in Germany before his current stint with Eiffel Towers Den Bosch in the Netherlands, making him the only Angolan national currently playing outside of Angola. A 203 cm (6'8") center-power forward, Gomes was a stand out at Valparaiso University in Indiana, [[United States], where he played collegiately from 2000 to 2004.
- Dondon Hontiveros
Donaldo (Dondon) Hontiveros (born June 1, 1977 in Cebu City, Cebu) is a Filipino professional basketball player actively playing for the San Miguel Beermen in the Philippine Basketball Association, although he is currently on leave from the team due to his duty as an active player for the Philippine national team. He has a son named Isiah with singer and fellow Cebu native Gail Blanco.
- Silas Simmons
Silas Joseph "Si" Simmons (October 14 1895? - October 29 2006) was an American semi-professional and professional baseball player for African-American teams in the pre-Negro League era, and became the longest-lived professional baseball player in history. The previous record was held by Chet Hoff, who died at age 107 in 1998. Simmons was born in Middletown, Delaware. He was a five-foot-ten, left-handed pitcher/outfielder, and began playing for the Germantown Blue Ribbons, …
- Bruce Reihana
Bruce Trevor Reihana (born 6 April 1976 in Thames) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He is an utility back and currently plays professional rugby in England for Northampton Saints. Reihana started playing at provincial level with Waikato in 1996 and led them to two Ranfurly Shield victories out of three challenges. He played for the Chiefs in the former Super 12 from 1997 to 2002 with 58 games and 123 points to his name.
- Ren-Ren Ritualo
Florendo Ritualo Jr. (born June 14, 1979 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association for the Talk N' Text Phone Pals. Nicknamed Ren-Ren and The Rainman, Ritualo is also a member of the Philippine national basketball team.
- Niño Canaleta
Rommel Niño Canaleta is a Filipino professional basketball player of Filipino-American descent. He currently plays for the Air21 Express in the Philippine Basketball Association. A 6'5", 190-pound swingman, he is fondly called by nicknames like "KG", "The Big Ticket", and "The Da Vinci of Dunk". He won the 2006 and 2007 PBA Slam Dunk Contests and led the Air21 Express to a third-place finish in the 2006 PBA Philippine Cup.
- Fred Saunders
James Frederick Saunders (born June 13th, 1951) is a retired American professional basketball player. Fred Saunders 15 years as a Physical Eductation teacher and Head Basketball Coach for the Franklin Heights High School boys varsity team.
- Arthur Wharton
Arthur Wharton, (October 28 1865 - December 13 1930) was the first black professional association football player in the world.
- Colin Milburn
Colin Milburn (23 October 1941 - 28 February 1990) was an English cricketer who played in nine Test matches. Noted for his substantial build and his buccaneering style, unusual in an opening batsman, there are few players who have played relatively little Test cricket who are remembered with so much affection so long after their heyday. Milburn was born in Consett co. Durham and brought up in the pit village of Burnopfield.
- Renaud Dion
Renaud Dion is a French professional cyclist. He made his professional debut in 2005 with R.A.G.T. Semences. In 2006 he changed to the UCI ProTour AG2R Prévoyance team.
- Peter Boddington
Peter Boddington (b October 1 1942 in Coventry, England) was the British amateur heavyweight boxing champion and subsequently a professional boxer. Boddington was member of his local boxing club, Rootes ABC. He went to Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School in Whitley, Coventry.