Sentences with phrase «cover jinx»

The myth of the SI cover jinx is all but dispelled.

According to the myth about the SI cover jinx, this should have more than sealed the fate of the Niners: Surely they would lose to the Bengals.

You've finally taken the SI cover jinx to the next level.

Since only one team can win the NCAA Tournament, at least three will be able to claim they are victims of the cover jinx.

Is this a new type of cover jinx?

The Houston Astros may have vanquished the Sports Illustrated cover jinx by winning the World Series, but shortly after we put the finishing touches on our initial 1 — 351, bad news struck two of the teams we predicted would make the NCAA tournament for the first time in over a decade.

Not exact matches

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

Jinx Statisticians and fatalists know that everybody has to lose some time — but why does it happen so often for a team the week after it's touted on the cover of SI?

Will these covering ways continue or will this one article jinx the entire city of Philadelphia?

And the best part is, says Kurkjian, «I don't have to worry about all that jinx stuff anymore because, theoretically, now I cover every team.»

This tendency toward mediocrity — sometimes called the Sports Illustrated jinx because an athlete is likely to enter a career lull after appearing on the cover — is a variation on a mathematical principle known as regression to the mean.

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