In Sports
- Professional golfer Kathy Whitworth, throughout her playing career won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments, more than anyone else has won on either the LPGA Tour or the PGA Tour.
- 88 is the number of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car owned by Hendrick Motorsports. It is currently a Chevrolet driven by Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Through the 2011 season, it was sponsored by AMP Energy and the National Guard; PepsiCo will replace its AMP Energy sponsorship with Diet Mountain Dew for 2012. From 1995 to 2007, the car was owned by Robert Yates Racing; its best-known driver during that time was Dale Jarrett, who won a Cup Series championship and a Daytona 500 in the car.
- 88 is worn by Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)