Sports
- The maximum number of players on a National Football League roster
- Racing number of F1 Stockcars (UK)racer John Lund
- Most points by a rookie in a NBA Playoff game, by Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain, 1960
- Most field goals (3-games series, NBA Playoff), by Michael Jordan, 1992
- Retired jersey number of Utah Jazz Mark Eaton
- Total number of national football associations of UEFA
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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)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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)