The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.

The Best of the Athletic Boys: The White Man's Impact on Jim Thorpe.

Many notable legislators from across the country such as Senator Ted Kennedy, Speaker of the House Tip O ' Neill, and House Majority Leader Jim Wright and Congressman William H. Natcher among others came to his funeral which was held in Hindman, Kentucky at the Morton Combs Athletic Complex on the campus of Knott County Central High School.

On Sept. 22, 2009, then WSU Athletic Director Jim Sterk launched the " TeamBuilt " fund drive for Phase III of the Martin Stadium renovation to add luxury suites, club seats and loge boxes atop the north stands.

In May 2010, the UMBC Athletic Department unveiled a new logo for the Retrievers created by Jim Lord.

* Jim Davis 1962, Chairman, New Balance Athletic Shoe

Bands who have recorded for the label include Dazzling Killmen, Brise-Glace ( featuring Jim O ' Rourke ), Cheer-Accident, The Strangulated Beatoffs, Zeek Sheck, The Chinese Stars, The Flying Luttenbachers, Lake Of Dracula, Gorge Trio, CoLOSSamite, Shorty, U. S. Maple, ZZZZZ, Made In Mexico, Melt-Banana, Quintron, My So-Called Lice, Flossie And The Unicorns, Yona-Kit, Nood Ham, You Fantastic !, Ruins, Space Streakings, Zeni Geva, AIDS Wolf, Mount Shasta, Arab On Radar, Yowie, Athletic Automaton, and PRE.

The athletic department is run by Jim Jackson the Athletic Director and Kim Vinson the Associate Athletic Director.

On June 29, 1990, Stewart no-hit his future team, the Toronto Blue Jays, at SkyDome, the first no-hitter by an African American since Jim Bibby in 1973 and, the last thrown by an Athletic before Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game on May 9, 2010.

Many notable legislators from across the country such as Senator Ted Kennedy, Speaker of the House Tip O ' Neill, and House Majority Leader Jim Wright and Congressman William H. Natcher among others came to his funeral which was held in Hindman, Kentucky at the Morton Combs Athletic Complex on the campus of Knott County Central High School.

* Jim Davis ( business ), Chairman of New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. and founder of Major League Lacrosse

* Jim Steel had a successful career as a footballer playing in England'd lower divisions with Oldham Athletic, Wigan Athletic, Wrexham A. F. C., Port Vale and Tranmere Rovers.

1989 Jim Brock, Cotton Bowl Athletic Association

James " Jim " Jefferies ( born 22 November 1950 in Musselburgh ) is a Scottish football former player and manager currently at Dunfermline Athletic.

Major League Baseball alumni of note are featured on the wall inside the men's restroom at the Burlington Athletic Stadium in the form of painted jerseys: Manny Ramirez (# 22 ), Jim Thome (# 25 ), Bartolo Colon (# 40 ) and C. C. Sabathia (# 52 ).

According to an article in the Washington Post, the convictions triggered a review by Virginia Tech Athletic Director Jim Weaver under the school's Comprehensive Action Plan, which was put in place in 1997 after 22 arrests involving 19 football players during a 15-month period.

Virginia Tech Athletic Director Jim Weaver issued a statement from the university on the incident:

" Jim Schaus, Athletic Director of Ohio University, described her hiring as " a winning half-court shot at the buzzer.

Jim ' Leish ' Leishman MBE, ( born 15 November 1953 in Lochgelly, Fife ) is a former professional footballer and current director of football of Scottish Premier League side Dunfermline Athletic.

As a running back, defensive back, placekicker and punter, Thorpe scored all his team's points — four field goals and a touchdown — in an 18 – 15 upset of Harvard, a top ranked team in those early days of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

With a total point score of 7, 476 points, Thorpe broke the previous record of 7, 385 points set in 1909, ( also set at Celtic Park ), by Martin Sheridan, the champion athlete of the Irish American Athletic Club.

After Wimbledon in 1977, McEnroe entered Stanford University and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association singles and team titles in 1978.

Ken Bates entered the picture at Oldham Athletic in the early 1960s, and along with the appointment of manager Jack Rowley, the club's fortunes turned for the better.

The club entered the Challenge Cup for the first time, and were drawn away to Forfar Athletic F. C.

Bray Wanderers went into decline in the mid-thirties but was reformed in 1942 / 43 and entered the Athletic Union League ( AUL ) Division 3 for the 1943 / 44 season.

Mido entered talks with Wigan Athletic over signing on a six-month loan deal, and he completed the move on 23 January 2009.

In June 2007 before the date of his proposed release from prison, media reports surfaced that Hughes had entered into discussions over a move to join League One club Oldham Athletic.

The San Francisco Saints were a traveling amateur basketball team composed of Chinese Americans that was formed in the 1950s and entered in the Amateur Athletic Union.

Since Clydebank entered the junior level in 2003 – 04 they have shared a healthy rivalry with Yoker Athletic and as of season 2008 – 09, The Bankies are tenants of Yoker at Holm Park after leaving their ground in Duntocher.

The Cincinnati Kings first entered the USL Second Division in 2005, under the leadership of Yacoub Abdallahi, an entrepreneur from Mauritania in Africa who graduated from Northern Kentucky University, and player-manager Jon Pickup, a former English U-16 international, who played professionally in England with Wigan Athletic, Blackburn Rovers and Chester City.

After leaving school he joined Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club and was selected for the Sri Lanka A tour of England in 1991.

* Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, a Washington, D. C. area high school athletic league

* Mississippi Athletic Conference, a high school sports conference in the Iowa Quad Cities

* Mountain Athletic Conference ( NCHSAA ), a North Carolina high school athletic conference

In 1989, the school inducted him in its Athletic Hall of Fame.

The 1958 Gilbert High Panthers finished 12-0, winning the Florida Interscholastic Athletic Association black school state championship with a 14-7 victory over Dillard High School of Fort Lauderdale before more than 11, 000 spectators.

* Fort Campbell High School — physically located in Tennessee, but serving the entire Fort Campbell base, and a member of Kentucky's governing body for high school athletics, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association

Its high school athletic teams, the " Hornets " ( colors: orange and black ) participate as members of the statewide Indiana High School Athletic Association ( IHSAA ), the Marion County Athletic Association and the Indiana Crossroads Conference.

The single Moss Bluff high school, Sam Houston, competes in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class AAAAA.

Dexter is home to the high school boys cross country team that tied the state record for most consecutive Michigan High School Athletic Association state championship titles with five, winning from the years 2002-2006.

Despite one of the smallest high school enrollments in the state of Missouri, the purple and white Bulldogs fielded four Missouri State High School Athletic Association state-qualifying teams.

Lafayette high school sports participate in the Northwest Conference, an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) which includes the Ada Bulldogs,

Spencerville high school sports participate in the Northwest Conference, an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) which includes the Ada Bulldogs,

During his high school days he set a Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League four-year scoring record ( 1951 – 55 ) of 2, 376 points that endured until 1993.

Jerry Mathis, former pro-baseball player, coached baseball at Tullahoma High School and is now the Athletic Director for the school.

In 2007, twenty years after Smith graduated from high school, the Florida High School Athletic Association ( FHSAA ) named Smith to its " All-Century Team ," recognizing him as one of the thirty-three greatest Florida high school football players of the last 100 years.

The school competes in the Region XIV Athletic Conference of the NJCAA.

The school sponsors intercollegiate athletic teams which compete in the NAIA's Mid-South Conference in football and the NAIA's Southern States Athletic Conference in other sports.

* October 5-University Athletic Association of the Philippines men's division finals: The Ateneo Blue Eagles defeat the De La Salle Green Archers to end their 4-year title streak and win the school their first title in 14 years.

His ad read " The Panhandle Athletic Club has organized a football team and would like to play any college, high school or manufacturing team on Saturday or Sunday.

He set single-season school records for assists and points and was named an East Coast Athletic Conference ( ECAC ) all-star and National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) All-American in both 1984 and 1985.