Word: bambino
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Allow me to elaborate. As sportswriters and editors, we attempt to make every win into Michael Jordan’s “The Shot” in 1989 and every choke into The Curse of the Bambino. We take the gift of gab—oh, sorry, the BS skills—that got us to this great institution and dress our tales of Harvard sporting events in diamonds and pearls as if they were our own resumes...
...that can be sensed by players and fans alike. Every so often, an enigmatic situation or occurrence drastically changes a contest, and no one knows what exactly happened. The force was present when Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner was stricken by the “Curse of the Bambino,” botching a ground ball during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. It was there when the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in the closing seconds of Super Bowl XLIII, ruining the Patriots’ undefeated season. In these situations, rational explanations rarely suffice.The...
...notes, the “pseudo-Red Sox fans”—the ones who abandon their hometown teams or pick up a Sox-habit only after freshman move-in—are the real problem for the Crimson Yankees fan.Two weeks later, the Curse of the Bambino ended. The fifth floor of Weld Hall again provided an excellent view of the festivities as the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years and pandemonium reigned in the Yard. Two years after that I became a member of the first Harvard College class since that...
...don’t do it for profit,” says Cardullo. “I do it as a community thing.” The Cardullo’s crowd is convinced the Sox are going to take the series, but if the Curse of the Bambino returns, at least their misery will have company...
...that until 2004, no one teaching in Social Studies had received tenure in another department since its founding in 1960. The report called the failure of faculty members within the department to gain tenure “the Social Studies equivalent of the ‘curse of the Bambino...