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Even Harvard's national championship squad--despite a Beanpot title--could not escape the Garden jinx completely in 1989. Vermont defeated the Crimson, 3-2, in the ECAC tournament semis that year, making a NCAA at-large bid necessary for Harvard to advance to the national tournament...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: The Curse of Causeway St. | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...year of the "threepeat," defending champions are O-for-1 following the NFL's San Francisco 49ers' 15-13 loss to the New York Giants last Sunday. Now, it's up to the Detroit Pistons, the Princeton men's basketball team and Budweiser to break the jinx...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Why Ask Why | 1/25/1991 | See Source »

...have to look ahead to [Saturday's game against] Dartmouth," Caples said. "Harvard's never won an Ivy title before. We don't want to put a jinx on ourselves...

Author: By Sean Becker, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen Reign Supreme in The Hub | 10/24/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Streaking Hard for the Top | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...Jinx...

Author: By Daniel E. Kosowsky, | Title: Undefeated Stickwomen Face Huskies Today | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

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