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:
“...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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
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