Sports
- Rochester Royals, a National Basketball Association team now known as the Sacramento Kings
- Rochester Red Wings, an International League baseball team
- Rochester Americans or Amerks, an American Hockey League team
- Rochester Tigers, a pro football team in 1936 also known as the Brooklyn Tigers
- Rochester Braves, a pro football team in 1936 also known as the Syracuse Braves
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then theres living proof. They can sit around and say, See? It doesnt work. I dont want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (16721719)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldnt tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didnt do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)