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)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)