In Sports and Games
- The usual par for an 18 hole golf course, especially those in tournament play.
- The number of victories the Chicago Bulls achieved during the 1995-96 NBA season, which is the National Basketball Association record.
- The number of spaces in a game of Parcheesi, from start space to "home."
- The year that the Colosseum was built.
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and/or games:
“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)
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)