Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most numbing demolition in a fall classic since Babe Ruth's Yankees gelded the St. Louis Cardinals in 1928. In both epochs the winning team hit five home runs in one game; in both, no contest was decided by fewer than three runs. Canseco twitched off the Dodgers jinx and launched one of his ho-hum homers into the 900 area code. Eckersley, accused during the Toronto play-offs of doctoring the ball, hardly needed to suit up, let alone sand up, as the A's performed what amounted to surgery without anesthesia. At the end, in the champagneless locker...
...Jinx...
...third-place Big Red (14-9-3 overall, 12-7-3 ECAC), this weekend's two-game miniseries represents a chance to end a five-year jinx. The Crimson (13-12-1, 12-9-1) has handled Cornell the last 11 times the squads have faced off, including two impressive victories this season...
...jinx is broken...
Last Saturday afternoon, the Harvard men's swim team broke a six-year jinx and ruined Princeton's perfect Ivy league record at Blodgett Pool. And the there was no doubt about the outcome, either-the Tigers were denied a single victory in all of the swimming events in their 75-38 thrashing at the hands of the Crimson...