Sports
- Under NCAA rules for men's basketball, the offensive team has 35 seconds to attempt a shot.
- The jersey number 35 has been retired by several North American sports teams in honor of past playing greats or other key figures:
- In Major League Baseball:
- The Atlanta Braves, for Hall of Famer Phil Niekro.
- The Chicago White Sox, for Frank Thomas.
- The San Diego Padres, for Randy Jones.
- In the NBA:
- The Boston Celtics, for Reggie Lewis.
- The Indiana Pacers, for Roger Brown.
- The Utah Jazz, for Darrell Griffith.
- In the NHL:
- The Chicago Blackhawks, for Hall of Famer Tony Esposito.
- In MotoGP, 35 is the rider number of British rider, Cal Crutchlow.
- In Major League Baseball:
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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)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)