Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this Sunday's contest in Tampa, about all I want is a well-played game, plenty of canned beer and some tasty dip. I'm not sure if Modell's longtime association with the Browns and inarguably rotten karma will jinx the Ravens. But it doesn't really matter to Browns fans like me - all we'll see is yet another shade of suffering: Modell and his championship Baltimore Ravens in football ecstasy...
...impossible not to [think about last year]," Murphy said. "But, I don't want to hear any of this stuff about jinx or destiny baloney. Technically, [Splendorio] shouldn't be able to block the kick from that distance. It wasn't much more than an extra-point...
This is a whole new year, and though hope springs eternal, the Boston faithful are saddled not just with the curse of the Bambino and a bullpen-full of reconstructed shoulders but with the added jinx of a Sports Illustrated story predicting a World Series victory for the Sox. No team ever on the cover of SI has won the title, but I'm sure the writers meant well. Superstition and all, everyone at the game Tuesday put aside the disappointment of the last 82 years (or was perhaps feeding off of it) and stood to cheer another chance...
...your typical rock and roll show: vibrators, flaming drumsticks, a random Bosstone. Valiantly trying to shake off the one hit wonder jinx was Orange County, Calif., pop rock group Lit-they of the insanely catchy "My Own Worst Enemy." The teenybopper crowd was more than receptive...
...going to go. I don't to jinx anything but I will go tomorrow. Thesis first, then job, then graduation," said Elizabeth S. Grossman...