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Sports Illustrated curse

Does the Sports Illustrated curse apply to movies?

September 19, 2011 · 0 comments

Hope not, because Moneyball gets the honors for the Sept. 26 issue. The stories aren’t up yet, but I’ll post when available.

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This week (June 21) in Sports Illustrated

June 17, 2010 · 0 comments

Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg is the latest to contend with the dreaded SI cover curse. Albert Chen does the editorial honors with this profile and a sidebar, which I’m guessing looks much better in the magazine than on the website. The other baseball feature, written by Pablo Torre, considers Ian Snell and others who suffer [...]

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* I don't want to say "I told you so," but…

June 30, 2009 · 0 comments

Joe Mauer on the June 29 cover of SI? He was batting .407 when the story was published, which according to Baseball-Reference.com, must have been June 21. Since then? Five hits in 25 at bats, dropping his average 21 points to .386. Zack Greinke had a similar drop off shortly after he appeared. I wonder [...]

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