Word: jinxes
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...also don't like myself or other players saying that we're going to win (the national championship), we might jinx ourselves like baseball players saying 'the pitcher has a no-hitter,'" he said. (You can get the player out of baseball, maybe, but for Coughlin you can't get baseball out of the player...
Harvard didn't waste any time setting themselves up for this possible jinx...
Ever since he attended Argentina's loss to Cameroon in the 1990 Cup, President Carlos Menem has been viewed as a jinx, or "mufa." On a visit to the U.S. last month, Menem purposely passed up a chance to see Argentina play Nigeria -- an election-year ploy, insiders...
...sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West bank; Jinx Possesski, Pipik's Polish nurse and girlfriend (who is a recovering anti-Semite enrolled in Pipik's Anti-Semites Anonymous) and Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel...
...Haven, however, the Crimson's Ingalls Rink jinx continued--65 minutes wasn't enough to decide a very physical, penalty-marred, 5-5 draw...