1988 NSWRL season, Season summary, Advertising
1988 saw the NSWRL move their advertising account from John Singleton Advertising to Hertz Walpole Advertising. There was initially however no shift in the prior campaign direction. For the second year running a visual and vocal performance by Australian rock journeyman John "Swanee" Swan was used. Swanee recorded a purpose-written jingle entitled "The Greatest Game of All" and a rock-clip style ad was shot on a stage setting with smoke, lights and fireworks. The performance footage was interspersed with game action.


1988 NSWRL season, Season summary, Advertising
Five years later Swan's younger brother Jimmy Barnes would also feature in an NSWRL season advertisement performing alongside Tina Turner.


1988 NSWRL season, Finals
Balmain had staged a gripping charge for the final five, winning nine of their last eleven games including five in a row to leave them in equal fifth spot with the Penrith Panthers at the regular season's end. They then won four sudden death finals to make it to the Grand Final.


1988 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand Final
Following Balmain's extraordinary late season run in winning thirteen of fifteen games, the stage was set for a Grand Final of great appeal. 1980s master coach Warren Ryan of Balmain was up against the club he had coached for four years to three grand finals and two premierships, as well as being matched against the man who had replaced him at Canterbury – Phil Gould. It was master against pupil. At just 30 years of age, Gould was vying not only to become the youngest coach to win a grand final but the first since Balmain's Leo Nosworthy in 1969 to steer a team to premiership victory in his first season coaching the top-grade.


1988 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand Final
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs faced the Balmain Tigers on 11 September 1988 in the first Grand Final played at the Sydney Football Stadium and the last game for Steve Mortimer. The match was played early so that Channel Ten could broadcast the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The Australian national anthem was performed by Glenn Shorrock.


1988 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand Final
After five minutes Peter Tunks was sent to the sin bin for ten minutes for treading on Ben Elias. The first points of the match were scored shortly after from Terry Lamb's successful penalty kick. Another penalty kick from Lamb put the Bulldogs in front 4 nil. However Balmain grabbed the first try an Elias put up a bomb and was first to the ball ahead of Bulldog Jason Alchin. Conlon's conversion from in front gave the Tigers the lead for first time at 6–4.


1988 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand Final
A highly controversial tackle by Terry Lamb put Balmain's in form British import Ellery Hanley out of the game before the 30-minute mark had been reached. Hanley staggered off, heavily concussed, with the score at 6–4. Under the rules of the time, Hanley was allowed 10 minutes to recover in the head bin. If he could not return he would need to be replaced. He returned just before half-time and stood, out-of-sorts, on the wing. The Bulldogs then ran in a 70-metre try from broken play and went to the break with a lead of 10–8.


1988 NSWRL season, Finals, Grand Final
Hanley did not return after half-time and the Bulldogs started to dominate. A great Canterbury team try to Michael Hagan sealed the match. Bruce McGuire scored Balmain's second try late in the match although the outcome was already clear. The match ended on a sentimental note when Gould called the Bulldog's representative star, former captain and 271 game veteran, Steve Mortimer to the sideline. He was less than fully fit and had his arm heavily padded to protect the wrist he had broken early in the season. However Mortimer had been named as a fresh reserve as tribute to his previous club contributions and the match ended with him moving to dummy half and taking the ball up for the last time.


1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore
The 1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore was a women's professional golf tournament, held March 31 to April 3 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 17th edition of the Nabisco Dinah Shore, and the sixth as a major championship.


1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore
Amy Alcott won the second of her three Dinah Shores, two strokes ahead of runner-up Colleen Walker. With consecutive scores of 66 on Friday and Saturday, she entered the final round with a four-stroke lead.


1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore
Alcott and caddy Bill Kurre started the tradition of jumping into "Poppie's Pond" upon winning. After her third win 1991, they repeated the plunge, including tournament host Dinah Shore. It was not fully embraced by others until 1994, when Donna Andrews made the leap, followed by Nanci Bowen the next year, and it became an annual tradition.


1988 Nabisco Masters
The 1988 Nabisco Masters was a men's tennis tournament held in Madison Square Garden, New York City, United States between 28 November and 2 December 1988. Whilst the doubles were held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Great Britain. It was the year-end championship of the 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix.


1988 Nabisco Masters, Finals, Singles
Boris Becker defeated  Ivan Lendl, 5–7, 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–5).


1988 Nabisco Masters, Finals, Doubles
Rick Leach /  Jim Pugh defeated  Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez 6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 6–0.


1988 Nabisco Masters – Doubles
Rick Leach and Jim Pugh won in the final 6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 6–0 against Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez.


1988 Nabisco Masters – Doubles, Draw, Group A
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1988 Nabisco Masters – Doubles, Draw, Group B
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1988 Nabisco Masters – Singles
Boris Becker defeated defending champion Ivan Lendl 5–7, 7–6(5), 3–6, 6–2, 7–6(5) in the final.


1988 Nabisco Masters – Singles, Draw, Group A
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision-


1988 Nabisco Masters – Singles, Draw, Group B
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1988 Nairn District Council election
Elections to Nairn District Council were held in May 1988, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections.


1988 Nairn District Council election
Turnout was 48.3% in contested wards. Of the 10 wards, 5 were uncontested.


1988 Naples bombing
The 1988 Naples bombing was a terrorist attack against a United Service Organizations (USO) military recreational club in downtown Naples, Italy on 14 April 1988. A powerful car bomb exploded in front of the USO club in Calata San Marco which caused the deaths of five people, including an American, and injuries to 15 others. The attack was perpetrated by a Japanese Red Army (JRA) member and came on the second anniversary of the 1986 United States bombing of Libya.


1988 Naples bombing, Victims
Four Italian civilians were killed along with a female American assigned to the U.S. Navy center in Naples. She was identified as 21-year-old Angela Simone Santos, a Puerto Rican servicewoman raised in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and Ocala, Florida. Four American sailors were also among the wounded, and some North Africans were also hurt. Many sailors at the USO probably escaped injury as they were in basement rooms that were shielded from the blast.


1988 Naples bombing, Responsibility
Two previously unheard Arab groups claimed responsibility, one of them saying "Imperialist Americans must die two years after their barbarous attack against the Libyan Arab state," referring to the 1986 United States bombing of Libya. Police later identified Junzo Okudaira as the main suspect, a member of the far-left Japanese Red Army (JRA) with links to groups in Lebanon. Okudaira was already wanted in Italy over a rocket and bomb attack against the American and British embassies in Rome in 1987, where nobody was hurt. Okudaira was staying at a hotel under a false Taiwanese identity. The Libyan ambassador said that the Libyan government had nothing to do with the attack.


1988 Naples bombing, Responsibility
A few days before the bomb attack, JRA member Yū Kikumura was arrested in the United States. Kikumura was thought to be planning a bomb attack on a U.S. Navy centre in New York City in retaliation to the Libya bombing of 1986, and to be simultaneous to the bombing in Naples.


1988 Naples bombing, Responsibility
In 1993, Okudaira was convicted in absentia for murder. He has never been caught.


1988 NatWest Trophy
The 1988 NatWest Trophy was the 8th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 22 June and 3 September 1988. The tournament was won by Middlesex who defeated Worcestershire by 3 wickets in the final at Lord's.


1988 NatWest Trophy, Format
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by thirteen Minor Counties: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Devon, Durham, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Wiltshire. The Ireland and Scotland teams also participated. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 3 September 1988.


1988 National Camogie League
The 1988 National Camogie League, the second most important elite level inter-county competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Kilkenny, who defeated Dublin in the final, played at O'Toole Park. Dublin were defeated finalists for the fifth year in succession. It was the last National League to be played under the shorter (1934–89) match duration of 50 minutes.


1988 National Camogie League, Arrangements
Dublin were missing Ann Colgan through a damaged knee, and Patricia Clinton and Carmel O'Byrne had gone to the USA for the summer. Marie O'Connell was involved in examinations and Una Crowley was unavailable.


1988 National Camogie League, The Final
Angela Downey contributed 2-5 of Kilkenny’s total of 3-10 in the final. Highlight of the match was one solo run by Angela Downey when she weaved her way around four Dublin defenders before scoring a goal. It enabled Kilkenny to lead 1-5 to 1-4 at half-time. The deciding factor in the first half was the midfield domination of Kilkenny’s Deirdre Malone, Anna Wheland and Marina Downey. Angela Downey scored three minutes after the restart, and it was the highlight of fifteen minutes of constant Kilkenny pressure. A goal from Louise Lynch after 42 minutes gave Dublin confidence but Kiklkenny regained their composure and Breda Holmes scored a match-clinching goal three minutes later.


1988 National Camogie League, Dublin’s League Record
Remarkably it was Dublin’s fifth successive defeat in a National Camogie League final and their eighth final appearance in ten years. At the time, Dublin’s scheduling of the county championship for earlier in the year than most of their competitors was assumed to give them an advantage in the National League.


1988 National Camogie League, Division 2
The Junior National League, known since 2006 as Division Two, was won by Armagh captained by Denise McStay, who defeated Down in the final on July 3.


1988 National Challenge Cup
The 1988 National Challenge Cup was the 75th edition of the national soccer championship of the United States.


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional semifinals, Region I
April 24 Spartans SC (DC/VA)	3:2	Philadelphia Inter (East PA)May 1	NY Pancyprian Freedoms (East NY)	2:1	Hellenic SC (MA)


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional semifinals, Region II
Date ? St. Louis Busch SC (MO)	W:L	Madison 56ers (WI)Date ? Udinese SC (MO)	W:L	Ayulta (IL)


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional semifinals, Region III
Date ? Dallas Mean Green (North TX)	W:L	Galveston International (South TX)Date ? Soccer City (GA)	W:L	? ?


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional semifinals, Region IV
May 21	Greek-American A.C. (North CA)	W:L	Fresno International (North CA)Date ? King Taco (South CA)	W:L	? ?


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional finals, Region I
Date ? NY Pancyprian Freedoms (East NY)	3:0	Spartans SC (DC/VA)


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional finals, Region II
Date ? St. Louis Busch SC (MO)	4:0	Udinese SC (MO)


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional finals, Region III
Date ? Dallas Mean Green (North TX)	2:0	Soccer City (GA)


1988 National Challenge Cup, Regional finals, Region IV
Date ? Greek-American A.C. (North CA)	1:0	King Taco (South CA)


1988 National Challenge Cup, National semifinals
(St. Louis Soccer Park – Fenton, Mo.) June 10	St. Louis Busch SC (MO)	2:0	Dallas Mean Green (North TX)June 10	Greek-American A.C. (North CA)	3:2	NY Pancyprian Freedoms (East NY)


1988 National Challenge Cup, Final
St. Louis Soccer Park – Fenton, Mo. June 25	St. Louis Busch SC (MO)	2:1 (AET) Greek-American A.C. (North CA)


1988 National Invitation Tournament
The 1988 National Invitation Tournament was the 1988 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1988 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the 32 teams selected for the tournament.


1988 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.


1988 National League Championship Series
The 1988 National League Championship Series was played between the National League West champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the National League East champion New York Mets. The Dodgers won the Series four games to three, en route to defeating the Oakland Athletics in five games in the 1988 World Series.


1988 National League Championship Series, Background
The Dodgers had won their fourth, and what turned out to be their final, NL West title of the 1980s, posting a 94–67 record (.580) during the 1988 regular season and beating out the Cincinnati Reds by seven games. The Mets cruised to the best record in the National League in 1988, with a 100–60 record (.625), easily winning the NL East crown by a full 15 games over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Mets were heavy favorites when the series began; they had beaten the Dodgers ten of 11 times in the regular season, outscoring them, 49–18.


1988 National League Championship Series, Background
The NLCS itself was a see-saw affair, with the two teams splitting the first two games at Dodger Stadium. The Series then shifted to Shea Stadium in New York for Games 3, 4, and 5; the Mets took Game 3 before the Dodgers pulled out close wins in both Game 4 (5–4 in 12 innings) and Game 5 (7–4). Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson hit home runs in both games, including the game-winning dinger in the 12th inning of Game 4. The NLCS then went back to Los Angeles, where the Mets took the sixth game 5–1; however, they went on to be blanked by the Dodgers 6–0 in the deciding seventh game, sending L.A. to the World Series for the first time since 1981.


1988 National League Championship Series, Background
Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser was named the NLCS MVP. He made four outstanding appearances in the Series, garnering the save in Game 4 and hurling a complete game shutout against the Mets in Game 7.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Tuesday, October 4, 1988, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The series opened with a classic pitching matchup, pitting the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser, who had won 23 games during the regular season and carried a Major League record 59 consecutive scoreless innings into the game, against Mets ace Dwight Gooden, who himself had won 18 games during the regular season. A pitchers' duel was expected, and neither pitcher disappointed.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The Dodgers pushed across an early run on a two-out RBI single from Mike Marshall in the first inning, but following that, both teams' offenses were held in check. The Dodgers were held hitless until the seventh inning, where they scored their second run off Gooden on an RBI single from Alfredo Griffin.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
With Hershiser rolling, it appeared the Dodgers would knock off the Mets and take the lead in the series. But in the ninth, Mets rookie Gregg Jefferies led off with a single. He advanced to second on a ground out, and the Mets broke through against Hershiser when Darryl Strawberry lined a double into the gap in right-center field to score Jefferies. Hershiser was then lifted in favor of ace closer Jay Howell. Kevin McReynolds drew a walk, and following a Howard Johnson strikeout, Gary Carter hit a two-strike pitch in front of a diving John Shelby. Strawberry scored as the ball bounced in front of Shelby, and McReynolds followed close behind. Shelby's throw to the plate was a little off target, and McReynolds scored the winning run by bowling over catcher Mike Scioscia as the ball sailed past him.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The Dodgers went down in order in the last of the ninth, and the Mets came away with a comeback win to draw first blood in the series.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Wednesday, October 5, 1988, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
We saw Howell throwing curveball after curveball and we were thinking: This is the Dodgers' idea of a stopper? Our idea is Randy (Myers), a guy who can blow you away with his heat. Seeing Howell and his curveball reminded us of a high school pitcher.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
David Cone, the Mets' starting pitcher for Game 2, wrote the above in an article for the New York Daily News. The article appeared in the paper the morning of Game 2, and the Dodgers were not pleased upon reading it. They took out their anger on the field that night—against Cone.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Mike Marshall drove in a first-inning run for the second night in a row. But in the second, the Dodgers exploded for four more runs to take a 5–0 lead and knock Cone from the game. Mickey Hatcher struck the key blow with a two-run double.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Although the Mets would draw within three runs on a fourth-inning two-run home run from Keith Hernandez, they could not overcome the Dodgers' pitching. Dodgers starting pitcher Tim Belcher struck out ten over 8+1⁄3 innings, and the Dodgers tied the series with a 6–3 victory.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Saturday, October 8, 1988, at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Fantastic plays and controversy would mark the afternoon, as the Mets rebounded from deficits twice to earn an 8–4 victory in Game 3.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Following a rainout, Game 3 was played in horrible football-esque weather. The rain that had delayed the game a day turned the field into a muddy mess.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The rainout of the previous night allowed the Dodgers to bring back Orel Hershiser to start on three days' rest, while the Mets countered with Ron Darling, who got off to a rocky start. The Dodgers scored their first run in the second inning on a throwing error by Keith Hernandez on a bunt attempt by Mike Scioscia. The Dodgers got another run on an RBI ground out by Jeff Hamilton, and a third run in the third inning on an RBI ground out by Kirk Gibson.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
But the Mets would not lie down against Hershiser. Darryl Strawberry drove home Mookie Wilson with a double in the bottom of the third inning, and in the sixth inning, the Mets tied the game thanks to some clutch hitting and sloppy Dodgers fielding.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
With Hernandez on first and none out, Strawberry singled to left. When Gibson bobbled the ball in the outfield, Hernandez tried to go to third. However, Hernandez slipped twice on the muddy infield, and Gibson was able to recover and throw Hernandez out as he attempted to crawl into third base. Kevin McReynolds reached on an error by third baseman Jeff Hamilton. One out later, back to back singles by Gary Carter and Wally Backman scored the two tying runs, and the Mets had come back once again against Hershiser. But the game was far from over.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
With two outs and the bases empty in the top of the eighth inning, Scioscia hit a one-hop comebacker back to Mets pitcher Roger McDowell. McDowell lined up to make a throw, and slipped to the ground on the wet mound. His throw to first was wild, and Scioscia advanced to second base on the error. Following a single, a walk and a pitching change, Randy Myers walked Mike Sharperson to force home a run and give the Dodgers a 4–3 lead.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The Dodgers turned to closer Jay Howell in the bottom of the eighth. Howell ran a three ball, two strike count to McReynolds leading off the inning. Suddenly, Mets Manager Davey Johnson came out of the dugout, and asked Umpire Harry Wendelstedt to inspect Howell's glove for an illegal substance. Sure enough, Howell was found to have pine tar on his glove, and he was immediately ejected from the game, and would later be suspended for Games 4, 5, and 6. The ejection seemed to undo the Dodgers. Three subsequent relievers failed to hold down the Mets, as they rallied for five runs in the inning after two men were out. Backman doubled home the tying run, Wilson singled home Backman with the lead run and Darryl Strawberry iced the inning with a two-run single.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
David Cone would shake off his rocky outing from Game 2, and pitched a scoreless ninth inning to close out the Dodgers and give the Mets a two to one Series lead.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Sunday, October 9, 1988, at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
It was the Dodgers who did the coming back in Game 4, and they did so in stunning fashion against the Mets ace.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Dwight Gooden started for the Mets, and the Dodgers scored early, just as they had in Game 1. A two-run single from John Shelby with two outs would give the Dodgers the lead. But once again, the Mets rebounded from the early deficit, this time against Dodgers starter John Tudor.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
With no outs and Keith Hernandez on first base in the fourth inning, Darryl Strawberry launched a long home run to right off Tudor to tie the score. One batter later, Kevin McReynolds hit a home run, over the bleachers in left field to put the Mets ahead. The Mets expanded their lead on an RBI triple from Gary Carter in the sixth inning.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
With a 4–2 lead going into the ninth inning, and Gooden cruising, the Mets looked to be a lock to take a commanding three games to one lead in the series. Since the first inning, Gooden had allowed one hit, and only four baserunners. But uncharacteristically, Gooden walked John Shelby to lead off the ninth, after having a two-strike count. Catcher Mike Scioscia then drilled a two-run home run into the Mets bullpen in right field to tie the game.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The game continued tied into the 12th inning, when Kirk Gibson, mired in a 1-for-16 slump in the series, hit a two-out home run off Roger McDowell to give the Dodgers the lead.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
With two runners on base and one out in the bottom half of the twelfth inning, the leftie Jesse Orosco came in to pitch to Hernandez and Strawberry, both left-handed hitters. Orosco worked to a 1–2 count on Hernandez, then threw three straight balls to walk the bases loaded. After Orosco threw another ball on his first pitch to Strawberry, Lasorda went out to the mound to deliver a message, which started with "What the fuck is wrong with you?" Orosco eventually got Strawberry to pop out to the infield.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
With the right-handed hitter McReynolds coming up, Lasorda summoned Orel Hershiser, even though he had pitched seven innings the previous day. With Jay Howell having been suspended and Tim Belcher, the starter for the next game, resting in his hotel room, Hershiser was the only pitcher left in the bullpen for the Dodgers. On his third pitch, he got McReynolds to fly out to shallow center, Shelby racing in for the game-ending catch. Hershiser got the save, and the Dodger win tied the series at two games apiece. The next game was scheduled to start in less than 11 hours.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Monday, October 10, 1988, at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
The Dodgers took a three games to two lead with a 7–4 win over Sid Fernandez and the Mets.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
The Dodgers jumped on Mets starting pitcher Sid Fernandez in the fourth and fifth innings, to run out to a 6–0 lead. Catcher Rick Dempsey hit a two-run double in the fourth, and Alfredo Griffin drove Dempsey in with another double. Kirk Gibson delivered the crushing blow with a three-run home run in the fifth.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Tim Belcher was the winning pitcher. Brian Holton got the final four outs for the save, with Hershiser again warming up in the bullpen in case Holton faltered.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
Tuesday, October 11, 1988, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
Pitching in the face of adversity, and pitching to keep his team's season alive, David Cone rebounded from his poor outing in Game 2 to post a sterling complete game victory in Game 6.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
For the only time in the entire series, the Mets scored first as a sacrifice fly by Kevin McReynolds scored Lenny Dykstra in the first inning to put the Mets ahead. McReynolds later hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning to put the game out of reach.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
Cone scattered five hits and allowed one run in his effort, which knotted the series once again, forcing a decisive Game 7.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
Jay Howell was available to pitch for the Dodgers because the National League president Bart Giamatti had cut a game off his suspension following an appeal hearing.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7
Wednesday, October 12, 1988, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7
Before the game, Mets manager Davey Johnson remarked that the excessive use of Orel Hershiser might undo the Dodgers. Hershiser had pitched eight-plus innings in Game 1, six in Game 3, and earned a save in Game 4. Missing from his log was a victory, but Hershiser got it with a complete game shutout to pitch the Dodgers into the World Series for the first time since 1981. Hershiser's performance earned him Most Valuable Player honors.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7
The Dodgers capitalized on two Mets errors in the second inning to put the game out of reach early. Steve Sax hit a two-run single to knock out Mets starter Ron Darling, and a Wally Backman error led to two more runs in a five-run Dodgers rally. With Darling out of the game, Dwight Gooden entered the game to pitch 3 innings of scoreless relief.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7
With Hershiser on the mound, and a big lead, the game was all but over. Hershiser allowed only five hits over his complete game effort, and his strikeout of Howard Johnson ended the game and capped off a memorable series.


1988 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7
This was the first postseason Game 7 to be played at Dodger Stadium; the next one would come 29 years later in the 2017 World Series, where the Dodgers would lose against the Houston Astros 5–1, clinching the Astros' first World Series championship.


1988 National League Championship Series, Composite box
1988 NLCS (4–3): Los Angeles Dodgers over New York Mets


1988 National League Championship Series, Aftermath, Dodgers
The 1988 Dodgers were also heavy underdogs against mighty Oakland Athletics in the 1988 World Series, but won the championship in five games, highlighted by Kirk Gibson's walkoff home run in Game 1. Davey Johnson's warning that excessive use of Orel Hershiser would undo the Dodgers would not come true as Hershiser won the World Series MVP. Following the conclusion of the 1988 World Series, the Dodgers would not win another playoff series until 2008, would not win another pennant until 2017, and would not win the World Series again until 2020.


1988 National League Championship Series, Aftermath, Mets
1988 proved to be the Mets best and last chance to win another World Series with the 1986 core. In March of 1989, Darryl Strawberry threw a punch at Keith Hernandez during team picture day. The two shouted at each other and were restrained by teammates until Strawberry left the area. During the '89 season, Lenny Dykstra and Roger McDowell were traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for Juan Samuel, which proved to be a mistake in hindsight. Another ill-fated trade was when Kevin Mitchell was traded to the San Diego Padres after the 1986 season, where he played half a season before landing in San Francisco, where he would reach his full potential by winning the 1989 National League MVP.


1988 National League Championship Series, Aftermath, Mets
The Mets chose not to re-sign Keith Hernandez after his contract ran out at the close of the 1989 season, while Gary Carter was released after five seasons with the club. The following year, Davey Johnson was fired after a 20–22 start to the season (Johnson would later manage the Dodgers in 1999 and 2000). The 1990 Mets would rebound and even come within a half a game of leading the NL East in mid-September, but would not reach the playoffs. Bob Ojeda, Strawberry, and Gary Carter, who were all from the Los Angeles area, would wind up on the Dodgers in 1991. At the 1991 trade deadline, Ron Darling was traded to Baltimore Orioles. After a fifth-place finish in 1991, Frank Cashen stepped down as the Mets' general manager.


1988 National League Championship Series, Aftermath, Mets
Lastly, Dwight Gooden, due to drug use and heavy workload, would decline rapidly in the early 1990s. During the strike-shortened 1994 season at age 29, Gooden had a 3–4 record with a 6.31 ERA when he tested positive for cocaine use and was suspended for 60 days. He tested positive again while serving the suspension, and was further suspended for the entire 1995 season. The day after receiving the second suspension, Gooden's wife, Monica, found him in his bedroom with a loaded gun to his head. George Steinbrenner would take a chance on Gooden the following season and he would help win a World Series for the 1996 Yankees, alongside his 1988 Mets' teammates David Cone and Darryl Strawberry. The Mets would not play another playoff game until the 1999 National League Division Series.


1988 National League Championship Series, Aftermath, Mets
The Mets have beaten the Dodgers twice in the playoffs since 1988 — in 2006 and 2015. However, the Mets have not won a championship since 1986.


1988 National League Championship Series, Aftermath, Mets
John Harper, a long-time New York baseball columnist, called Mike Scioscia's home run off of Dwight Gooden in the 9th inning of Game 4 the most devastating in Mets history.


1988 National League season
In 1988 the National League, also known as British League Division Two, was the second tier of speedway racing in the United Kingdom.


1988 National League season, National League Knockout Cup
The 1988 National League Knockout Cup was the 21st edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Hackney Kestrels were the winners of the competition.


1988 National League season, National League Knockout Cup, Final
Hackney were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 110–82.


1988 National Panasonic Cup
The 1988 VFL National Panasonic Cup was the Victorian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Victorian Football League's 1988 Premiership Season began. It culminated the Final in March 1988. This was the first of the night premierships to be played entirely in the pre-season.


1988 National Soccer League
The 1988 National Soccer League season, was the 12th season of the National Soccer League in Australia.


1988 National Soccer League (Canada) season
The 1988 National Soccer League season was the sixty fifth season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began on May 10, 1988 and concluded on September 14, 1988 with Toronto Italia winning the NSL Championship by finishing first in the First Division. Toronto would also secure a double by defeating Montreal Superga of the Quebec National Soccer League (LNSQ) for the NSL Canadian Championship. The NSL Ontario Cup was won by Toronto Croatia on September 17, 1988. Croatia would face St. Leonard-Corfinium of the LNSQ for the NSL Canada Cup, but were defeat by a score 3-1. St. Catharines Roma II were the reserve division champions.


1988 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
Significant reforms were unanimously approved by the board of the directors at the annual general meeting on January 23, 1988. Changes included an increase in club membership due to the return of a reserve division, which required each member to field a reserve team. The newly formed division would serve as a developmental platform for younger players and provide the senior teams with a larger resource of talent. The league's playing format was revised with the elimination of the postseason system with the winner of the regular season determining the overall champion. The First Division retained the majority of members from the previous season with the exception of Nacional Latino, and Toronto International.


1988 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
The league organized a friendly tournament named the Friendship Cup which involved Toronto Croatia, Toronto Italia, and Windsor Wheels in a series of matches against Cosenza and Palermo F.C. of Italy. Toronto Italia would defeat Cosenza in the finals to win the tournament title. The league continued its collaboration with the Quebec National Soccer League (LNSQ) in order to form a national championship by providing their league and league cup winners to crown a national champion.


1988 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Cup
The cup tournament was a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all ten teams took part. All the matches were separate from the regular season, and the teams were grouped into two separate divisions. The two winners in the group stage would advance to a singles match for the Cup. The winner of the league cup would face the Quebec National Soccer League (LNSQ) cup titleholder for the NSL Canada Cup.


1988 National Soccer League (Canada) season, NSL Canadian Championship
Since the 1986 season a joint effort was conducted between the Pacific Rim Soccer League of British Columbia, National Soccer League and the Quebec National Soccer League in order to provide a national champion. Their regional champions would face each other in a single match for the championship. The Pacific Rim Soccer League participated in the first tournament, but ceased operations in 1987. While their league cup champions would compete for the NSL Canada Cup. Toronto Italia would win the championship by defeating Montreal Superga of the Quebec National Soccer League (LNSQ).


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards
The 23rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 9 January 1989, honored the best filmmaking of 1988.


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being2. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios)3. Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)3. A World Apart


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director
1. Philip Kaufman – The Unbearable Lightness of Being2. Chris Menges – A World Apart3. Wim Wenders – Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor
1. Michael Keaton – Beetlejuice and Clean and Sober2. Gene Hackman – Mississippi Burning3. Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man3. Max von Sydow – Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress
1. Judy Davis – High Tide2. Carmen Maura – Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios)3. Melanie Griffith – Working Girl3. Barbara Hershey – A World Apart


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor
1. Dean Stockwell – Married to the Mob and Tucker: The Man and His Dream2. Alec Guinness – Little Dorrit3. Tim Robbins – Bull Durham


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress
1. Mercedes Ruehl – Married to the Mob2. Lena Olin – The Unbearable Lightness of Being3. Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay
1. Ron Shelton – Bull Durham2. David Cronenberg and Norman Snider – Dead Ringers3. Shawn Slovo – A World Apart


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography
1. Henri Alekan – Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)2. Sven Nykvist – The Unbearable Lightness of Being3. Philippe Rousselot – Dangerous Liaisons3. Conrad L. Hall – Tequila Sunrise3. Vittorio Storaro – Tucker: The Man and His Dream


1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Documentary
1. The Thin Blue Line2. Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie3. Tokyo Olympiad (Tôkyô orimpikku)


1988 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1988 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1988 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 20–22 May 1988, at the Autodromo Dino Ferrari.


1988 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Wayne Gardner on pole. Through the first turn, it was Eddie Lawson, Kevin Schwantz, Didier De Radiguès, Pierfrancesco Chili and Gardner.


1988 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
At the end of the first lap, it was Lawson, De Radiguès, Schwantz, Gardner, Chili and Wayne Rainey.


1988 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Another few laps and it was Lawson, Gardner, De Radiguès, then a small gap to Rainey and Schwantz.


1988 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Lawson got a gap from a re-formed quartet behind. Christian Sarron went down at a chicane, forcing Kevin Magee and Niall Mackenzie off the track.


1988 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
On the cool down lap there was a collision between Tadahiko Taira and Raymond Roche.


1988 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1988 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy as an independent during the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1988 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1988 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1988 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, NFL and pro players
The following Nebraska players who participated in the 1988 season later moved on to the next level and joined a professional or semi-pro team as draftees or free agents.


1988 Nepal earthquake
The 1988 Nepal earthquake occurred in Nepal near the Indian border and affected much of northern Bihar. The magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook the region on August 21, killing at least 709 persons and injuring thousands. The earthquake struck in two installments of 10 seconds and 15 seconds each and left cracks in 50,000 buildings, including Raj Bhavan and the old Secretariat Building in Patna, Bihar.


1988 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1988 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Big Sky Conference (BSC). The Wolf Pack were led by 13th-year head coach Chris Ault and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.


1988 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1987 season 5–6 and 4–4 in BSC play to finish in a three-way tie in third place.


1988 New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election
The New Brunswick New Democratic Party, a social democratic political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, held a leadership election in 1988, following the resignation of previous leader George Little after the party had been unable to win any seats in the 1987 provincial election. Robert Arthur Hall served as interim leader following Little's resignation.


1988 New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election, Convention
Weir had entered the convention as the sole candidate and was strongly associated with the party establishment. It was assumed heading into the convention that she was to be acclaimed. However, a rebellion over control of the party erupted with the labour movement demanding a greater say in the party. Beaulieu was put forward from the convention floor by labour delegates as a challenger to Weir and came within 5 votes of beating her.


1988 New England Patriots season
The 1988 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 19th season in the National Football League, the 29th overall and the 5th under head coach Raymond Berry. With a record of nine wins and seven losses, they finished tied for second in the AFC East Division. It would take until 1994 for the Patriots to record another winning season. The Patriots improved on its 8-7 record from 1987, winning one more game due to one game being cancelled the previous season. Despite the winning record, the Patriots did not reach the postseason. They finished tied for 2nd in the AFC East with the arch rival Colts, but were regulated to 3rd place because the Colts had a better record against common opponents than the Patriots did.


1988 New England Steamrollers season
The 1988 New England Steamrollers season was the first and only season for the Arena Football League franchise. Concert and fight promoter, Frank J. Russo, and jeweler, Robert Andreoli, purchased a limited partnership from the Arena Football League to own the rights to a Providence, Rhode Island team. The team's first move was the hiring of Head Coach Babe Parilli in March. After a 3–9 season, the Steamrollers didn't achieve the dollar amount that Russo and Andreoli thought they would, and the franchise folded.


1988 New England Steamrollers season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated February 12, 201329 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


1988 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
The 1988 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In its 17th year under head coach Bill Bowes, the team compiled a 6–5 record (4–4 against conference opponents) and tied for third place out of eight teams in the Yankee Conference.


1988 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
The 1988 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1988. Incumbent Governor John Sununu did not run for re-election, and was succeeded by U.S. Representative Judd Gregg.


1988 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1988 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Mike Sheppard, the Lobos compiled a 2–10 record (1–7 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 518 to 170.


1988 New Mexico Lobos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Jeremy Leach with 1,986 passing yards, Andre Wooten with 801 rushing yards, Al Owens with 774 receiving yards, and kicker Rick Walsh with 46 points scored.


1988 New Mexico Lobos football team
In its third season of broadcasting both live and delayed games, KGSW-TV 14 (now KLUZ-TV) would only leave one road contest against Hawaii off its schedule. As with the past two seasons, the road games were seen live, while the home games were show on delay at 10pm (MST).


1988 New Mexico State Aggies football team
The 1988 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Big West Conference during the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year under head coach Mike Knoll, the Aggies compiled a 1–10 record. The team played its home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.


1988 New Orleans Saints season
The 1988 New Orleans Saints season was the team's 22nd as a member of the National Football League (NFL). They were unable to match their previous season's output of 12–3, winning only ten games and missing the playoffs (and losing the division) by a tiebreaker, going 6-6 vs. NFC opponents compared to 8-4 for the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams. Road losses to the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings, as well as a sweep by San Francisco, ended up being the difference in New Orleans staying home and the California teams advancing.


1988 New Orleans Saints season, Game summaries, Week 3
The Saints won for the first time in Detroit going 0-4-1 in their previous five trips to Michigan (three to Tiger Stadium and two to the Pontiac Silverdome).


1988 New Orleans Saints season, Game summaries, Week 8
The Saints defeated the Raiders for the first time in six meetings (the 1971 matchup, the first between the teams, ended in a 21-21 tie).


1988 New Orleans Saints season, Game summaries, Week 12
In the Broncos' first appearance in the Louisiana Superdome since Super Bowl XII 11 years earlier, the Saints defeated Denver for the first time in five tries, and posted their largest margin of victory at the time.


1988 New South Wales Open
The 1988 New South Wales Open was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney in Australia that was part of the 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix and of Tier IV of the 1988 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from 4 January through 11 January 1988.


1988 New South Wales Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Darren Cahill /  Mark Kratzmann defeated  Joey Rive /  Bud Schultz 7–6, 6–4


1988 New South Wales Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Ann Henricksson /  Christiane Jolissaint defeated  Claudia Kohde-Kilsch /  Helena Suková 7–6, 4–6, 6–3


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Doubles
Betsy Nagelsen and Elizabeth Smylie were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Nagelsen with Lori McNeil and Smylie with Jana Novotná.


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Doubles
McNeil and Nagelsen lost in the quarterfinals to Catherine Suire and Catherine Tanvier.


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Doubles
Novotná and Smylie lost in the semifinals to Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Helena Suková.


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Doubles
Ann Henricksson and Christiane Jolissaint won in the final 7–6, 4–6, 6–3 against Kohde-Kilsch and Suková.


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Singles
Zina Garrison was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Singles
Pam Shriver won in the final 6–2, 6–3 against Helena Suková.


1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1988 New South Wales state election
Elections to the 49th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 19 March 1988. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and a third of the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The Labor government of Premier Barrie Unsworth was defeated by the Liberal-National Coalition, led by Opposition Leader Nick Greiner.


1988 New South Wales state election
The election took place following a redistribution of seats, which resulted in the Assembly growing from 99 to 109 seats.


1988 New South Wales state election, Issues
The Labor Party, under Neville Wran and, since 1986, Barrie Unsworth, had been in office for 12 years. A number of corruption scandals had tarnished Labor's image. Among these was the jailing of Labor's Minister for Corrective Services Rex Jackson in 1987 for accepting bribes for the early release of prisoners.


1988 New South Wales state election, Issues
Even before then, two by-elections in 1986 indicated that NSW voters were about to call time on the three-term Labor government. When Unsworth, then a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, ran for the previously safe Labor Assembly seat of Rockdale in 1986, he only won it by 54 votes after losing more than 17 percent of Labor's primary vote from 1981. Additionally, Labor suffered a 22-percent primary vote swing in Wran's old seat of Bass Hill, allowing the Liberals to take it on a 103-vote margin. However, by-elections in Heathcote and Bankstown in 1987 saw only small swings against the government.


1988 New South Wales state election, Issues
The Liberals' campaign slogan was "A change for the better". Greiner campaigned on a promise to clean up state government, foreshadowing the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, as well as promising to freeze government expenditure, create 16,000 new employment and training positions, and pay more attention to law enforcement.


1988 New South Wales state election, Issues
In rural electorates, Labor's positions on gun laws and conservation alienated many voters. Health care was also a campaign issue.


1988 New South Wales state election, Issues
Future Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott admitted in 2005 that he voted Labor at this election saying that Unsworth "was the best deal premier that New South Wales had ever had" and knew that it would not damage Greiner's prospects at this election.


1988 New South Wales state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
The result was a landslide for the Coalition parties. Election analyst Antony Green later noted that "the 1988 result was startling, the worst Labor performance, and best Coalition result, since the Lang era of the 1930s". Labor lost heartland seats including Balmain, Newcastle and Swansea for the first time since the turn of the century.


1988 New South Wales state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
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1988 New South Wales state election, Results, Legislative Council
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1988 New South Wales state election, Seats changing hands
¶ Bass Hill was won by the Liberal party in the 1986 by-election. It was regained by Labor in this election.


1988 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1988 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced on 31 December 1987 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1988 in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Gibraltar.


1988 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1988 New Year Honours (Australia)
The New Year Honours 1988 were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced on 31 December 1988 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1989 in Australia


1988 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1988 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1987 and the beginning of 1988, and were announced on 31 December 1987.


1988 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1988 New York City Marathon
The 1988 New York City Marathon was the 19th running of the annual marathon race in New York City, United States, which took place on Sunday, November 6. The men's elite race was won by Great Britain's Steve Jones in a time of 2:08:20 hours while the women's race was won by Norway's Grete Waitz in 2:28:07.


1988 New York City Marathon
A total of 22,405 runners finished the race, 18,431 men and 3974 women.


1988 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 54th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1988. The winners were announced on 15 December 1988 and the awards were given on 15 January 1989.


1988 New York Giants season
The 1988 New York Giants season was the franchise's 64th season in the National Football League. The team would finish with 10 wins and 6 losses, but a loss to the New York Jets in the season finale would keep them out of the playoffs for the second consecutive season. The Giants would finish second behind the Philadelphia Eagles in the division, losing the conference tiebreaker to the Los Angeles Rams for the final wild card.


1988 New York Giants season
The season was marked early by the suspension for substance abuse of star linebacker Lawrence Taylor by the NFL for the first four games of the season. Following the end of the season, the Giants would see two longtime defensive stalwarts; defensive end George Martin and future Hall-of-Fame inside linebacker Harry Carson, announce their retirement.


1988 New York Jets season
The 1988 New York Jets season was the 29th season for the team and the 19th in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 6–9 record from 1987 under head coach Joe Walton. The Jets finished the season with a record of 8–7–1. Although for the second straight year they failed to qualify for the playoffs, they would play the spoiler, as a victory over their cross-town rival New York Giants in Week 16 kept the Giants out of the playoffs due to a series of tiebreakers. For the third time in his career, Ken O'Brien had the lowest rate of interceptions among quarterbacks. He had 7 interceptions in 424 passing attempts.


1988 New York Jets season
The Jets endured a major distraction when Mark Gastineau, the team's main pass rusher who appeared to be experiencing a career-renaissance, abruptly retired in midseason to tend to ailing actress Brigitte Nielsen.


1988 New York Knights season
The 1988 New York Knights season was the first and only season for the Arena Football League franchise.


1988 New York Knights season
The Knights became an expansion team of the Arena Football League in 1988. The team announced Jim Valek as the first coach in franchise history. The team featured a couple of players from the 1987 New York Giants replacement team, including starting quarterback Jim Crocicchia and his primary receiver Edwin Lovelady, but its desire to fans was questioned before the team began playing games. The Knights won their first game in franchise history, 60–52 over the Los Angeles Cobras. During the Knights home opener, fight erumped in the stands, and items were thrown on the field. After winning the season opener, the Knights lost 4 straight games before returning home to a smaller crowd, losing 22–36 to the Cobras. The Knights would lose 8 straight games before they defeated the Cobras 40–30 in Los Angeles. The team folded after a disappointing 2–8 season.


1988 New York Knights season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated February 27, 201329 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


1988 New York Mets season
The New York Mets' 1988 season was the 27th regular season for the Mets. They went 100–60 and finished first in the NL East. They were managed by Davey Johnson. They played home games at Shea Stadium.


1988 New York Mets season
The Mets would go on to lose to the eventual World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS in seven games.


1988 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1988 New York Yankees season
The New York Yankees' 1988 season was the 86th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 85-76, finishing in fifth place, 3.5 games behind the Boston Red Sox. New York was managed by Lou Piniella and Billy Martin, with the latter  managing the team for the fifth and final time. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.


1988 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1988 New York state election
The 1988 New York state election was held on November 8, 1988, to elect representatives to the United States Electoral College, a member of the United States Senate, and members of the United States House of Representatives, the New York State Assembly, and the New York State Senate.


1988 New York state election, Results (partial)
1988 New York state election results: State Senate, 19th District


1988 New York state election, Results (partial)
Source: "THE ELECTIONS; New York State Senate," New York Times, 10 November 1988. The numbers are unofficial figures. The website  lists the final result as: Solomon 39,234 (72.80%), Cirnigliaro 14,658 (27.20%), citing the New York Red Book as its source.


1988 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
A leadership election was held for the New Zealand Labour Party on 21 December 1988. The incumbent leader David Lange was re-elected with 72% of the vote. To date it is the only instance when a sitting Prime Minister has been challenged for leadership.


1988 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Causes
After the 1987 New Zealand election, an increasing rift opened up in the governing Labour Party between Prime Minister David Lange, and Minister of Finance Roger Douglas. Troubled by Douglas' idea of a flat tax and further Rogernomics reforms after the stock market crash, Lange unilaterally put a halt to them while Douglas was out of the country in a press conference where he called for the nation to "have a cup of tea".


1988 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Causes
In December 1988, Douglas wrote to Lange to tell him that he intended to tell the Labour caucus he could no longer serve in a government led by him. Lange construed this letter as a resignation. Douglas was sacked as Finance Minister, and he and his allies brought a leadership challenge to Lange, whom they regarded as in a weak position, having alienated both the left and right wings of the Labour Party. Caucus brought forward the vote from early 1989 to 21 December.


1988 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Result
Even though many Labour MPs supported the reforms, most weren't prepared to replace the charismatic and witty Lange for Douglas, who was a wooden speaker lacking the common touch. This resulted in Lange defeating Douglas by a wide margin of 38-15. Lange commented that he never felt threatened that Douglas would defeat him and as expected, only the most loyal of Douglas' following supported him, such as Richard Prebble and Trevor De Cleene (The two of them with Douglas would later become known as the Three Musketeers). Lange's victory can be summed up by a quote from Geoffrey Palmer who said that he regarded both as essential to the government's well-being.


1988 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Aftermath
However, shortly after this election, the caucus re-elected Douglas to the cabinet. Feeling that this served as a motion of no-confidence on his continued leadership, and feeling that he could no longer work with Douglas in cabinet, Lange resigned in August of that year to be replaced by Geoffrey Palmer.


1988 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Aftermath
After his resignation, Lange served as Attorney General and remained a backbencher until retiring from Parliament in 1996. Douglas chose not to contest the 1990 election, and instead co-founded with former National Party MP Derek Quigley the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers which would go on to become ACT New Zealand. Douglas returned to parliament again in 2008 and stood down in 2011.


1988 New Zealand Masters
The 1988 Lion Brown New Zealand Masters was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in July 1988 at the Legislative Chamber of the New Zealand Parliament in  Wellington, New Zealand.


1988 New Zealand Masters
Stephen Hendry won the tournament beating Mike Hallett 6–1 in the final.


1988 New Zealand NBL season
The 1988 NBL season was the seventh season of the National Basketball League. With the relegation of Palmerston North in 1988, Waitemata returned to the NBL following a four-year hiatus after winning the Conference Basketball League (CBL) championship in 1987. Wellington won the championship in 1988 to claim their fourth league title.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League
The 1988 New Zealand National Soccer League was the 19th season of a nationwide round-robin club competition in New Zealand football. Christchurch United finished as champions for the second season running, three points clear of traditional rivals Mount Wellington.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation
The last-placed team in the 1987 league would normally have been relegated, but Dunedin City withdrew citing the financial overheads of travel in the league, and so no team was relegated. City's place in the 1988 league was taken by Waikato United from the Northern league.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation
At the end of the 1988 season two teams were relegated: Manawatu United finished last, and Nelson United were expelled for failing to meet NZFA ground criteria.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
The 1988 season came down to a two-horse race between traditional foes Christchurch United and Mount Wellington, neither of whom lost a match at home all season. At one point the gap between these first and third stretched to 17 points, though this was more than halved by the end of the campaign. Two players reached the milestone of 300 league appearances during the season. Papatoetoe's Keith Hobbs was first to the mark, followed on the last day of the season by Mount Wellington's Ron Armstrong, the last surviving player from the league's inaugural season.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Christchurch United were second in the table for much of the season, but eventually overhauled the Mount four weeks from the competition's conclusion. A good disciplinary record (with no red cards all season) and an undefeated run of 16 matches was almost enough for Mount Wellington to snatch the title, but even a league record-equalling 9–0 win over Manurewa was not enough to get them past the southerners.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
If the seven-point gap between second and third was large, the gap back to fourth was even greater. Mount Maunganui was the only one of the league's remaining twelve sides to produce any challenge to the two leaders, and they finished in an isolated third place, 15 points clear of Napier City Rovers in fourth. An early run of losses was more than compensated for by a second half to the season which saw the Bay of Plenty side notch up 31 points in 13 games. They reduced the deficit on the top two, but the gap was far too great. Between them, the top three sides lost fewer games than any one of the league's remaining eleven teams.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Napier produced their best finishing position to date at the head of the pack. Fourth to eleventh were separated by seven fewer points than the gap from third to fourth, and Napier had been tenth only seven weeks before the end of the season. Waikato United's first foray into the league under this name was relatively successful, and the team pushed Mount Maunganui for third spot at one stage. The team had formed from a merger of several sides, among them former national league team Hamilton. Inconsistency was the key word in sixth-placed North Shore United's season. A run of four defeats left the team rooted to the foot of the table early on, but was followed by five successive victories. Results oscillated in this manner for much of the season, leaving the Shore mid-table.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Wellington United failed to consolidate on their 1987 effort of finishing third, suffering a mid-season slump which ruined any chances they may have had of repeating that feat. Despite that, its games were exciting and produced plenty of goals – an aggregate of over four per game on average. They also managed to finish one spot above fierce local rivals Miramar Rangers. Rangers were looking good after two-thirds of the season but a disappointing run of results in the last few weeks saw them slip from fourth to eighth.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Gisborne City also failed to live up to the hopes they had after their excellent 1987 season. The 1987 runners-up and cup winners could only struggle to ninth in a season where there was little consistency to the team's play or results. Hutt Valley United finished below them, its lowly position the result of the team's failure to score in half of its games. A small revival in fortunes in the second half of the season was the only thing which kept the club above the bottom two places.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
For Papatoetoe the 1988 season saw most of the goals come at the wrong end of the pitch. An inability to score and a leaky defence contributed to its lowly position. The club's problems were not confined to those on the pitch, as the liquidation of the team's main sponsor mid-season left them in dire financial straits. if Papatoetoe's defence was a problem, then Manurewa's was a nightmare. The team let through 69 goals during the season, but still held onto their now expected position just above the relegation zone.


1988 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Nelson United were also perennial strugglers, but this season their survival fight ended badly. Although they did not finish in the automatic relegation spot, they were removed from the league for 1989 after failing to meet NZFA criteria. Last place in the 1988 league went to Manawatu United, who finished behind Nelson on goal difference. With only one home victory and a defence which allowed through 71 goals, the Palmerston North-based side were constantly near the bottom of the league, though it was only with the last match that their relegation spot was confirmed.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1988 New Zealand rugby league season was the 81st season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. The main feature of the year was the World Cup final that was played at Eden Park. Australia defeated New Zealand in the final 25–12. Auckland won the National Provincial Competition.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, World Cup final
New Zealand met Australia in the World Cup final, the culmination of four years of competition. At the end of four years, Australia finished top of the table, and, through their victory over Great Britain in Christchurch, the Kiwis qualified to host the final. The Final was played at Eden Park, the first occasion that rugby league had used the ground since 1919. Prior to kick-off Graham Brazier performed the New Zealand national anthem.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, World Cup final
New Zealand:1. Gary Mercer; 2. Tony Iro; 3. Kevin Iro; 4. Dean Bell (c); 5. Mark Elia; 6. Gary Freeman; 7. Clayton Friend8. Peter Brown; 9. Mike Brady; 10. Adrian Shelford; 11. Mark Graham; 12. Kurt Sorensen; 13. Mark HoroReplacements: Shane Cooper & Sam StewartCoach: Tony Gordon


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, World Cup final
Australia:1. Garry Jack; 2. Dale Shearer; 3. Andrew Farrar; 4. Mark McGaw; 5. Michael O'Connor; 6. Wally Lewis (c); 7. Allan Langer8. Paul Dunn; 9. Ben Elias; 10. Steve Roach; 11. Paul Sironen; 12. Gavin Miller; 13. Wayne PearceReplacements: David Gillespie & Terry LambCoach: Don Furner


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, World Cup final
Due to the inexperience of the Australian team, the hosts went into the match as favourites in the eyes of many critics. However, the Wally Lewis-led Kangaroos – boasting the likes of Ben Elias, Allan Langer, Paul Sironen and David Gillespie among their 'inexperienced' – triumphed over the ill-disciplined Kiwis, who at least made sure the victorious Australians were bloodied and bruised for their victory lap. For the Kiwis, the Iro brothers, Dean Bell, Gary Freeman, Clayton Friend, Mark Graham, Adrian Shelford and Kurt Sorensen dished out the punishment.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, World Cup final
The New Zealand Rugby League called for an inquiry after the result. It was revealed that Gary Mercer was carrying a rib injury before into match and, in hindsight, should not have played in the final. After the match the NZRL stated that it would use Eden Park again in the future, however it did not hold another Test match until 2010, during the Four Nations. A week before the final a Wellington Invitational side gave Australia a solid warm up match, losing 12-24.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
Earlier in the season the New Zealand national rugby league team played in several other Test series, included two matches that counted towards the World Cup. In February a Presidents XIII lost 38-6 to the new Brisbane Broncos franchise at Lang Park. The team was captained by Barry Harvey. An Auckland v Rest of New Zealand match was held as a Kiwis trial, with Auckland winning 32-6. An hour later Tony Gordon announced his team for the World Cup clash against Papua New Guinea.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
The team was: Darrell Williams, Shane Horo, Gary Mercer, captain Dean Bell, Kevin Iro, Shane Cooper, Clayton Friend, Adrian Shelford, Peter Brown, Mike Brady, Mark Graham, Sam Stewart, Mark Horo. Reserves: Esene Faimalo and Gary Freeman. The Kiwis won 66-14 in front of 9,000 fans at Carlaw Park. PNG had earlier beaten Midlands and Waikato 58-0 and 38-12 respectively. After the Test match they defeated Northland 58-14 before heading home via Australia.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
The Kiwis victory set up a must win clash with Great Britain the following Sunday, with the winner advancing to the final. The final Test of the 1988 Great Britain Lions tour of Australasia, it was held at Addington Showgrounds and was won 12-10 by the Kiwis, with Gary Freeman scoring both tries. The weekend earlier Great Britain had defeated Wellington 24-18. After the Test match Great Britain ended their 18 match tour of Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand by playing Auckland. Auckland, fielding a relatively inexperienced side, won 30-14.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
As part of the Australian Bicentenary, the Kangaroos played a Rest of the World side coached by Graham Lowe. The side included eight players from New Zealand; Gary Mercer, Dean Bell, Kevin Iro, Shane Cooper, Wayne Wallace, Adrian Shelford, Mark Graham who captained the side and Sam Stewart.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
The New Zealand Māori side, coached by Richard Bolton, played three games during the season. They defeated Hawkes Bay 82-4, Gisborne East Coast 56-0 and Taranaki 38-8. Mark Horo (twice) and Barry Harvey both captained the side, which also included Gary Mercer, David Ewe, Kelly Shelford, Morvin Edwards, Mark Woods, Tawera Nikau and Dave Watson. They then headed to Western Samoa to compete in the Pacific Cup which they won, defeating Western Samoa 26-12 in the final.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
A Queensland side, excluding their NSWRL stars, toured New Zealand in May. The side defeated the West Coast 24-12 and Canterbury 26-22 before losing to Auckland 12-70.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
Bob Bailey coached the Junior Kiwis who included Jason Donnelly, Jarrod McCracken, Whetu Taewa, Simon Angell, Jason Lowrie, Quentin Pongia and Hitro Okesene. Martin Moana was included in the New Zealand Schoolboy side.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Other international competitions
Kevin Iro was the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year. Hugh McGahan was the co-winner of the Golden Boot alongside Peter Sterling. This was the first time a New Zealander had won the award. During the year Ken Stirling was one of the new directors elected onto the NZRL Board.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup
Auckland successfully defended the Rugby League Cup throughout the year.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Provincial Competition, First Division
Auckland won the title, defeating Canterbury 30-21 in Christchurch and 20-4 at Carlaw Park and Wellington 22-18. However Wellington defeated Auckland for the first time since 1913, winning 18-10 at the Hutt Recreation Ground. Wellington and Canterbury shared a win and a loss against each other.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Club Competition
The national club competition, called the Lion Red League Nationals for sponsorship reasons, was won by the Te Atatu Roosters who defeated the Glenora Bears 18-8 in the final. The final was held at Eden Park as the curtain raiser to the World Cup final.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Club Competition
Northland Rugby League's Moerewa was eliminated before playing a match due to not having the required number of junior teams.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
The Te Atatu Roosters won the Fox Memorial title, defeating minor premiers, the Glenora Bears, 22-16 in the grand final. The Northcote Tigers won the Roope Rooster. Richmond, in their 75th year, won the pre-season competition.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Ron O'Regan was the Te Atatu Roosters player-coach, the grand final winning team was: 1. Carl Magatogia, 2. Iva Ropati, 3. Sam Panapa, 4. Grant Raynor, 5. Mark Elia, 6. Ron O'Regan (player-coach), 7. Carl Taylor, 8. Peter Brown, 9. Peter Ropati, 10. Craig Coyle, 11. Tony Botica, 12. Mark Horo, 13. Terry O'Shea, 14. Mau Tofa, 15. Graham Huggins, 16. Raymond Hall, 17. Duane Gwadenski.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Se'e Solomona played for Richmond, who were coached by Fred Ah Kuoi. Kelly Shelford, Dean Lonergan, Mike Patton and Phil Bancroft played for Glenora while Mount Albert Lions were coached by Mike McClennan and included Gary Prohm, Brian McClennan, Mark Bourneville and Kevin Iro. Shane Cooper and George Mann played for the Mangere East Hawks, Francis Leota played for Otahuhu Leopards and Dave Watson played for Manukau. Paddy Tuimavave played for Northcote.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Wellington
Minor premiers Petone won the Wellington Rugby League title after defeating Upper Hutt 26-16. St George lost to Wainuiomata in the relegation playoff and were relegated to the second division for 1989.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Wellington
Morvin Edwards, Mike Kuiti, David Ewe and Sonny Whakarau played for Upper Hutt while James Leuluai, Daroa Ben Moide and Peter Mellars played for Petone. George Lajpold, Robert Piva and Barry Harvey played for Randwick.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Halswell defeated Marist-Western 24-12 to win the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy. Addington were the minor premiers. It was the 75th anniversary year for Canterbury's three oldest clubs; Addington, Sydenham and Linwood.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Halswell defeated Marist 42-6 to retain the Thacker Shield for Canterbury.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Phil Prescott coached Halswell who included Brendon Tuuta and Aaron Whittaker while Marist-Western included Mike Brady, player-coach Gerard Stokes and Logan Edwards. Sydenham included Esene Faimalo.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
The Moerewa Tigers won the Northland Rugby League title, defeating the West End Jumbos 23-14. The Te Paatu Warriors won the Far North title 36-14 over the Orowhana Dragons.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Ngaruawahia defeated the Hamilton City Tigers 30-12 to win the Waikato Rugby League title. Ngaruwahia included Bill Kells, Jason Donnelly played for Frankton, Tukere Barlow played for the Hamilton City Tigers and Martin Moana played for Huntly United. Pikiao won the Bay of Plenty Rugby League grand final, defeating the Ngongotaha Chiefs 26-18. For the first time the Bay of Plenty and Midland clubs played a combined round. Pacific won the Midlands grand final, defeating Putaruru.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Foxton defeated Kia Ora 29-20 to win the Manawatu Rugby League final while Kaiti and Flaxmere won the Gisborne-East Coast and Hawke's Bay Rugby League titles respectively. Western Suburbs won the Taranaki Rugby League grand final 9-7 over the Waitara Bears.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Marist won the grand final while Cobden-Kohinoor won the main championship. Gordon Smith played for Waro-rakau while Cobden-Kohinoor included Glen Gibb. Marist, coached by Tony Coll, included Brent Stuart and captain Wayne Dwyer. Suburbs included Whetu Taewa while Runanga included Jason Palmada.


1988 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
He Tauaa dominated the Southland Rugby League competition, winning all three trophies.


1988 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia
The 1988 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia and Fiji was the 26th tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team to Australia.


1988 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia
The last tour of "All Blacks" in Australia was the 1984 tour, while Australian visit New Zealand in the 1986 tour.


1988 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia
All Blacks won two test match on three and won the Bledisloe Cup.


1988 Newsweek Champions Cup
The 1988 Newsweek Champions Cup was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the Indian Wells Masters and was part of the 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was played at the Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California in the United States from February 29 through March 7, 1988.


1988 Newsweek Champions Cup, Champions, Men's Doubles
Boris Becker /  Guy Forget defeated  Jorge Lozano /  Todd Witsken 6–4, 6–4


1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles
Guy Forget and Yannick Noah were the defending champions but only Forget competed that year with Boris Becker.


1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles
Becker and Forget won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Jorge Lozano and Todd Witsken.


1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion and won in the final 7–5, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4 against Emilio Sánchez.


1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.


1988 Nicholls State Colonels football team
The 1988 Nicholls State Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University in the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Colonels were led by second-year head coach Phil Greco. They played their home games at John L. Guidry Stadium and were an NCAA Division I-AA Independent. They finished the season 7–4.


1988 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 1988 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 39th season of operation for the league.


1988 Nithsdale District Council election
Elections to the Nithsdale District Council took place in May 1988, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The number of seats and the total vote share won by each party is listed below.


1988 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference
1988 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference was held in Nicosia, capital of Cyprus in September of 1988. 92 foreign ministers participating in the conference discussed United States and the Soviet Union rapprochement, South Africa's occupation of Namibia and Israel's occupation of Palestine, threats against Nicaragua, apartheid and the solution of the conflict in South-West Africa. During the conference, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was unanimously selected as a host of the 9th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, making the country the first one to host the event for the second time after the 1961 Summit.


1988 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference
While the Federal Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia led by Budimir Lončar was excited, the Presidency of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav collective head of state, was sceptical about the prospects of hosting the event but ultimately supported by Josip Vrhovec. Some other countries considered hosting the 9th summit, including Kuwait, Argentina, Peru, Cyprus and Nicaragua. Nicaraguan candidacy was opposed by Yugoslavia due to perceived radicalism and de facto alignment of the country, while Cypriot informal candidacy while attractive, was perceived as impractical as the country had only 4 embassies in NAM member states.


1988 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference
The Foreign Ministers Conference in Nicosia welcomed the United Nations efforts at resolution of the Cyprus dispute and demanded the immediate withdrawal of all occupation forces and settlers and welcomed the proposal for demilitarization of the island. The final document of the conference was described as more balanced and thoughtful compared to the final declaration of the 1986 Summit in Harare, Zimbabwe. Minister of Foreign Affairs of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher, politician with predominantly positive attitude towards NAM, welcomed Indian and Yugoslav proposals for modernisation of the movement stating that it should "not be permitted to turn into an association of anticolonial struggle veterans".


1988 Nordic Figure Skating Championships
The 1988 Nordic Figure Skating Championships were held from March 4th through 6th, 1988 at the Askerhallen in Asker, Norway. The competition was open to elite figure skaters from Nordic countries. Skaters competed in three disciplines, men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing across two levels: senior (Olympic-level) and junior.


1988 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1988 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Tar Heels  played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team was led by head coach Mack Brown, in his first year at UNC.


1988 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1988 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on  November 8, 1988. Popular Incumbent Governor James G. Martin ran and was re-elected by a comfortable margin over Democratic Challenger former Lieutenant Governor Robert B. Jordan III. Martin also made history by becoming the first Republican to be re-elected in North Carolina. As of  2021, this is the only time that a Republican was re-elected to a second term as Governor of North Carolina.


1988 North Carolina gubernatorial election, Footnotes
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1988 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1988 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1988. Republican nominee Jim Gardner defeated Democratic nominee Tony Rand with 50.64% of the vote.


1988 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 1988 North Dakota State football team represented North Dakota State University during the 1988 NCAA Division II football season, and completed the 92nd season of Bison football. The Bison played their home games at Dacotah Field in Fargo, North Dakota. The 1988 team came off a 6–4 record from the previous season. The team was led by coach Rocky Hager. The team finished the regular season with an undefeated 10–0 record and made the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Bison defeated the Portland State Vikings 35–21 in the National Championship Game en route to the program's fourth NCAA Division II Football Championship.


1988 North Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1988 North Dakota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1988 to elect the Governor of North Dakota. Incumbent Democratic Governor George A. Sinner was re-elected to a second term with 58% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee Leon Mallberg, a businessman and "anti-tax crusader" and his running mate Donna Nalewaja. Lloyd Omdahl, who had been appointed Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota in 1987 after the death of Ruth Meiers, was elected on the ticket. As of 2021, this is the last time a Democrat was elected Governor of North Dakota.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election
Provincial Council elections were held on 19 November 1988 to elect members to Sri Lanka’s North Eastern Provincial Council.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Background
The Indo-Lanka Accord signed on 29 July 1987 required the Sri Lankan government to devolve powers to the provinces and, in the interim, to merge the Northern and Eastern provinces into one administrative unit.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Background
On 14 November 1987 the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the 13th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of 1987, establishing provincial councils. On September 2 and 8 1988 President Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Northern and Eastern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected Council.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Background
The first elections for provincial councils took place on 28 April 1988 in North Central, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, and Uva provinces. Elections in the newly merged North Eastern Province were held on 19 November 1988.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Results, Jaffna District
The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front won all 19 seats uncontested.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Results, Kilinochchi District
The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front won all 3 seats uncontested.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Results, Mannar District
The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front won all 5 seats uncontested.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Results, Mullaitivu District
The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front won all 5 seats uncontested.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Results, Vavuniya District
The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front won all 4 seats uncontested.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Aftermath
On 10 December 1988 Annamalai Varatharajah Perumal of the EPRLF became the first Chief Minister of the North Eastern Provincial Council.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Aftermath
On 1 March 1990, just as the Indian Peace Keeping Force were preparing to withdraw from Sri Lanka, Permual moved a motion in the North Eastern Provincial Council declaring an independent Eelam. President Premadasa reacted to Permual's UDI by dissolving the provincial council and imposing direct rule on the province.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Aftermath
On 14 July 2006, after a long campaign against the merger of the Northern and Eastern provinces, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Sinhalese nationalist political party, filed three separate petitions with the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka requesting a separate Provincial Council for the East. On 16 October 2006 the Supreme Court ruled that the proclamations issued by President Jayewardene in September 1988 were null and void and had no legal effect. The North Eastern Province was formally demerged into the Northern and Eastern provinces on 1 January 2007.


1988 North Eastern Provincial Council election, Aftermath
The north-east of Sri Lanka was ruled directly from Colombo until May 2008 when elections were held in the demerged Eastern Province. However, the Northern Province continues to be ruled from Government.


1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was part of the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean—the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea to the west of India.


1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) releases unofficial advisories. An average of five tropical cyclones form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November. Cyclones occurring between the meridians 45°E and 100°E are included in the season by the IMD.


1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression One (1A)
A tropical depression that formed on June 8 off the western coast of India tracked westward, becoming a tropical storm on the 9th. It looped to the north, where upper-level winds ripped it apart on the 12th.


1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Two (02B)
A tropical disturbance in the eastern Bay of Bengal developed into a tropical depression on October 17. It moved northwestward, briefly becoming a tropical storm before upper-level winds weakened it. The storm hit Bangladesh as a tropical depression on the 19th, but still managed to cause strong storm surge and flooding amounting to 1500 casualties.


1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Three (03B)
Tropical Storm Three, which formed in the southern Bay of Bengal on November 14, tracked northward to reach a peak of 65 mph winds before hitting Myanmar on the 18th. The storm rapidly dissipated over land.


1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Four (04B)
The monsoon trough spawned a tropical depression just west of the Malay Peninsula on November 21. Its large circulation caused mudslides and flooding over western Indonesia before consolidating into a tropical storm on the 24th over the central Bay of Bengal. The storm turned northward, where conditions allowed for continued development. The storm became a cyclone on the 26th, and it continued to strengthen as it moved northward. Cyclone Four reached a peak of 130 mph just before hitting the Sundarbans part of Bangladesh. Heavy storm surge and torrential flooding killed 2000 people (with 6000 missing), and left millions homeless.


1988 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Five (05B)
From December 6 through the 8th, a tropical storm meandered through the central Bay of Bengal, remaining at sea through its lifetime.


1988 North Shore state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of North Shore on 5 November 1988 because of the resignation of Ted Mack (Independent), shortly before he became entitled to a parliamentary pension.


1988 North Shore state by-election
The North Shore by-election was held the same day as the Port Stephens by-election.


1988 North Star Conference Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 1988 North Star Conference Women's Volleyball Tournament was held at the ? in DeKalb, Illinois. The tournament began on November 19, 1988, and ended on November 20, 1988.


1988 North Sumatra gubernatorial election
The 1988 North Sumatra gubernatorial election was an indirect election held on 9 May 1988 to elect the Governor of North Sumatra for the 1988–1993 term. All members of the Regional People's Representative Council of North Sumatra were eligible to vote for this election.


1988 North Sumatra gubernatorial election
Incumbent governor Kaharuddin Nasution was named as a possible candidate, however, he did not contest in the election.


1988 North Sumatra gubernatorial election
There were three candidates contesting in this election: Raja Inal Siregar, Muhammad Abduh Pane, and Benhard Mangatur Silitonga.


1988 North Sumatra gubernatorial election
36 members of the Regional People's Representative Council of North Sumatra voted for Siregar, five members voted for Pane, and four members voted for Silitonga. One member abstained in this election.


1988 North Sumatra gubernatorial election
After his victory in the election, Raja Inal Siregar was inaugurated as governor on 13 June 1988.


1988 North-East Fife District Council election
Elections to North-East Fife Council were held in May 1988, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections.


1988 North-East Fife District Council election
The Westminster constituency seat covering the same area had been won by the Liberal candidate Menzies Campbell from the Conservative party in the previous years general election.


1988 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team
The 1988 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) as part of the Southland Conference during the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their eighth year under head coach Pat Collins, the team compiled a 5–6 record.


1988 Northern California Open
The 1988 Northern California Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Aptos, California in the United States and was part of Tier V of the 1988 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from July 25 through July 31, 1988.


1988 Northern California Open, Winners, Women's Doubles
Lise Gregory /  Ronni Reis defeated  Patty Fendick /  Jill Hetherington 6–3, 6–4


1988 Northern California Open – Doubles
Kathy Jordan and Robin White were the defending champions but only White competed that year with Anne Smith.


1988 Northern California Open – Doubles
Smith and White lost in the semifinals to Lise Gregory and Ronni Reis.


1988 Northern California Open – Doubles
Gregory and Reis won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Patty Fendick and Jill Hetherington.


1988 Northern California Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1988 Northern California Open – Singles
Elly Hakami was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Jennifer Santrock.


1988 Northern California Open – Singles
Sara Gomer won in the final 6–4, 7–5 against Robin White.


1988 Northern California Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1988 Northern Illinois Huskies football team
The 1988 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University. The Huskies competed in the highest division of football, Division I-A. They were led by fourth year head coach Jerry Pettibone and they played their home games at Huskie Stadium.


1988 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The 1988 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University during the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Dyche Stadium in Evanston, Illinois. They were coached by Francis Peay.