What Is Luck?
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[INTRO] 1957: the Oklahoma Sooners football team hit the cover of Sports Illustrated on a 47 game win streak, and that week promptly lost to Notre Dame. 1988: Michael Spinks appears before his fight with Mike Tyson. A week later, Tyson knocks him out in just 91 seconds. 2015: Two days before the Kentucky Wildcats hit the cover, they ruin their perfect season with a loss to Wisconsin in the Final Four. The notorious Sports Illustrated curse. Athletes who grace the magazine’s cover seem to end up victims of particularly bad luck. There are hundreds of cases just like these. The magazine conducted a study in 2002 and found that of all SI covers then printed, 913 featured a person or team who would later encounter misfortune. Similar jinxes have followed the H...
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[INTRO] 1957: the Oklahoma Sooners football team hit the cover of Sports Illustrated on a 47 game win streak, and that week promptly lost to Notre Dame. 1988: Michael Spinks appears before his fight with Mike Tyson. A week later, Tyson knocks him out in just 91 seconds. 2015: Two days before the Kentucky Wildcats hit the cover, they ruin their perfect season with a loss to Wisconsin in the Final Four. The notorious Sports Illustrated curse. Athletes who grace the magazine’s cover seem to end up victims of particularly bad luck. There are hundreds of cases just like these. The magazine conducted a study in 2002 and found that of all SI covers then printed, 913 featured a person or team who would later encounter misfortune. Similar jinxes have followed the H...
