[1] Sheil attended Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, where he played basketball with Thomas F. X. Smith.

Sheil went on to play for the Carbondale Aces of the American Basketball League.

[4] While in the State Senate, Sheil was stripped of his assignments on the Judiciary Committee for supporting Republican Thomas Kean in the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial election.

[10] Sheil ran in the Republican primary for a seat on the Sarasota County commission in 1996.

[13] Sheil died on June 23, 2002, in Cuddebackville, New York, and was interred at Holy Name Catholic Cemetery in Otisville.