Word: jinxing
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...Walt will break his Heptagonal jinx," McCurdy said confidently yesterday. If he does, Navy may have trouble even keeping close...
...coach, Ara Parseghian, wrote a Midwest sports columnist last week, was that he hadn't made the cover of TIME. This wry little note took public notice of a myth that is a continuing topic of conversation among journalists -particularly sportswriters. It is known as the TIME cover jinx...
...knows just how the myth got started, but it has persisted for 30 years. Any sports figure who gets on the cover of TIME, goes the mythology, is doomed to defeat-in a phrase, has had it. TIME Subscriber Ara Parseghian saw that jinx note in the sports column while Correspondent Marsh Clark was interviewing him for this week's cover. He smiled rather bravely and allowed that he wasn't worried. How ever, while there is no computerized or even uncomputerized evidence to support the myth, it can be said that someone almost always loses in sports...
Harvard's fabled TV jinx also is on the line today. Harvard hasn't ever won a televised game; Dartmouth hasn't ever lost...
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, but everybody loves Robert Preston, an enchanting rogue, a human jinx, and a TV python of mass-media production. Ronald Alexander's comedy is caustic, pertinent and wildly amusing...