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:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“...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)