In Sports
- Willie Russell (fl. 1920s), Scottish footballer
- Bill Russell (born 1934), American basketball player
- Bill Russell (baseball) (born 1948), shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball
- Billy Russell (born 1959), footballer
- William Russell (fencer) (1896–1958), American Olympic fencer
- William Russell (cricketer) (1866–1929), Australian-born English cricketer
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“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“...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)