In Sports
- Virginia Military Institute beat Columbia Union College 156-91 on November 28, 2007, setting a VMI basketball team record for margin of victory
- NFL quarterback Steve Bartkowski threw 156 touchdowns in his career from 1975 to 1986
- NFL quarterback Steve McNair threw 156 touchdowns with the Houston Oilers, Tennessee Oilers and Tennessee Titans. (He finished his career with the Baltimore Ravens in 2007 with 174 career TDs)
- Babe Ruth had 156 hits with the New York Yankees in 1932
- Alex Rodriguez hit 156 home runs with the Texas Rangers: 52 (2001); 57 (2002); and 47 (2003)
- Alex Rodriguez had 156 RBIs with the New York Yankees in 2007, the most in MLB that season
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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)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)