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:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)