2013년 11월 28일 목요일

About 'ill state univ'|Election Day 2012: An ill wind blew and the fat man sang!







About 'ill state univ'|Election Day 2012: An ill wind blew and the fat man sang!








If               you               were               an               athlete,               what               would               you               consider               to               be               the               pinnacle               of               success?

I               mean,               aside               from               winning               an               MVP               award               or               a               championship?

Appearing               on               a               box               of               Wheaties?

Getting               invited               to               the               White               House               to               meet               a               President               whose               last               name               is               not               Bush?

Nah,               every               athlete               in               America               knows               the               surest               sign               that               you               have               made               it               is               to               get               yourself               on               the               cover               of               Sports               Illustrated.

Sports               Illustrated               has               been               the               premier               sporting               magazine               among               athletic               supporters               that               are               capable               of               reading               for               decades.

To               get               your               mug               on               its               cover               is               the               equivalent               of               a               TV               entertainment               getting               his               face               on               the               cover               of               TV               Guide.

Well,               back               when               anyone               paid               any               attention               to               TV               Guide.

Sports               Illustrated,               on               the               other               hand,               has               outlasted               even               that               dead               magazine.

Of               course,               there               is               one               downside               to               getting               on               the               cover               of               Sports               Illustrated.

It               means               you               are               jinxed               for               the               upcoming               week.
               I               was               watching               an               episode               of               Coach               on               my               Netflix               Roku               this               week               and               it               was               the               episode               where               Hayden               Fox               appears               on               the               cover               of               Sports               Illustrated               the               week               that               his               college               football               team               at               Minnesota               State               first               cracks               the               top               twenty.

His               paranoid               and               intensely               pessimistic               assistant               coach               Luther               is               sent               into               a               tizzy               over               the               prospect               of               the               curse               coming               true.

To               tell               you               the               truth,               I               had               forgotten               about               the               Sports               Illustrated               curse               until               I               watched               his               episode.

You               see,               about               a               decade               ago               I               pretty               much               realized               that               there               was               no               greater               waste               of               one's               life               in               America               than               watching               sports.

Oh               sure,               I'll               occasionally               get               caught               up               in               a               game               if               I               come               across               it               by               accident,               but               I               no               longer               set               aside               three               hours               of               my               life               to               watch               a               sporting               event               from               to               start               to               finish.

But               watching               Coach               and               having               the               memory               of               the               Sports               Illustrated               curse               brought               back               memories.
               Those               who               insist               the               Sports               Illustrated               curse               or               jinx               is               an               urban               legend               point               to               the               fact               that               Michael               Jordan               appeared               on               the               cover               over               forty               times               and               never               once               experienced               any               ill               effects.

Ditto               the               New               York               Yankees.

And,               of               course,               none               of               the               models               who               ever               appeared               on               the               Swimsuit               Edition               ever               experienced               any               elements               of               the               jinx               or               curse,               except               for               a               few               who               managed               to               bloat               up               to               105               pounds.

Believers               in               the               curse               point               to               such               things               as               the               Sports               Illustrated               cover               story               predicting               the               Cleveland               Indians               would               win               the               pennant;               instead               they               wound               up               in               the               cellar               that               year.

Writer               Alexander               Wolff               famously               conducted               research               into               the               validity               of               the               curse               and               discovered               that,               at               the               time               of               his               writing,               of               almost               2500               different               cover               stories               that               Sports               Illustrated               had               done,               over               900               of               those               featured               had               experienced               a               downturn               in               performance               that               could               qualify               as               being               the               victim               of               a               jinx               or               curse.

The               most               cursed               kind               of               athlete?

Golfers,               who               appeared               to               be               the               victim               of               a               jinx               roughly               70%               of               the               time.

The               least               cursed               kind               of               athlete?

Boxers,               who               fell               victim               to               a               post-cover               loss               just               15%               of               the               time.
               Even               those               who               accept               the               concept               that               the               32%               figure               that               those               numbers               boil               down               represents               an               unwholesome               number               of               bad               luck               streaks               in               dancing               school               are               quick               to               point               out               that               the               curse               usually               strikes               those               in               the               prime               of               their               careers               rather               than               up               and               comers,               meaning               that               the               jinx               typically               upsets               those               who               are               older               as               well               as               those               involved               in               sports               requiring               delicate               motor               skills.

That               combination,               in               other               words,               means               that               you've               got               older               athletes               who               are               subject               to               being               off               their               game               more               frequently.

The               fact               they               experience               a               downturn               the               week               of               the               cover               can               be               seen,               therefore,               as               merely               a               not               very               bizarre               coincidence.
               In               that               episode               of               Coach,               the               character               of               Luther               uses               a               real               life               example               of               the               Sports               Illustrated               curse               when               he               mentions               that               the               Univ.

of               Oklahoma's               47               game               winning               streak               came               to               end               the               week               they               appeared               on               the               cover.

Making               this               all               the               more               eerie               is               that               not               only               did               the               cover               story               end               their               record-setting               unbeaten               streak,               but               the               title               on               the               cover               was               "Why               Oklahoma               is               Unbeatable."               Still,               the               eeriest               thing               about               the               Sports               Illustrated               curse               is               that               on               a               handful               of               occasions               the               appearance               by               an               athlete               on               the               cover               has               resulted               in               tragedy,               not               just               an               off               week.

For               instance,               the               very               same               week               that               skier               Jill               Kinmont               appeared,               she               hit               a               tree               during               a               practice               run               and               wound               up               paralyzed               from               the               neck               down.

Even               worse,               after               a               1958               cover               appearance               by               racecar               driver               Pat               O'Conner,               he               was               killed               in               a               15               car               pileup.

The               single               most               tragic               example               of               the               Sports               Illustrated               curse               took               place               a               few               years               later               when               ice               skater               Laurence               Owen               appeared               on               the               cover;               that               same               week               a               plane               crash               killed               not               just               Owen,               but               the               entire               United               States               ice               skating               team.






Image of ill state univ






ill state univ
ill state univ


ill state univ Image 1


ill state univ
ill state univ


ill state univ Image 2


ill state univ
ill state univ


ill state univ Image 3


ill state univ
ill state univ


ill state univ Image 4


ill state univ
ill state univ


ill state univ Image 5


  • Related blog with ill state univ





    1. aallnet.typepad.com/   09/02/2005
      ...University at Buffalo Law Library will provide free ILL and document delivery to law libraries...Professor of Law University at Buffalo Law School The State University of New York 208 O'Brian Hall Buffalo...
    2. marathonpundit.blogspot.com/   03/08/2008
      ...legislature was trying to help state employees avoid. I think the impact...Quinn wants count of vets in Univ. of Ill. MBA program Broken promises...
    3. eyeontheparanormal.blogspot.com/   11/08/2008
      ... to do Time Warp like only Paranormal State can do. The house tour starts at 11:33...a magazine in the kitchen showing no ill effects at all. At 5:03 PM Ryan ...
    4. bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/   08/03/2013
      ... a million St' Francis univ. in Joliet got OVER a...politics-and-elections/p/state-awards-grant-to-elmhurst...www.timesunion.com/news/article/Ill-Gov-Quinn-makes-3-...
    5. crimeninuria.blogspot.com/   01/28/2009
      ...; it is the very foundation of all legal order. Where the law of the state contradicts this Higher ‘God’s law’ principle, the law of the State...
    6. lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/   03/20/2012
      ...their jobs when they get ill. The fact that most single ...Fourteenth Amendment subjects state action to strict scrutiny.” Board of Trustees of Univ. of Ala. v. Garrett, 531 U. S...
    7. thecommonills.blogspot.com/   05/03/2005
      ...mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com . [Note: This entry has.... I had earlier stated that Matthew Rothschild's latest column...
    8. debunkhouse.wordpress.com/   11/08/2012
      ...illustration of how “an ill wind blew and the fat...and Sandy’s landfall (CIMSS/Univ. Wisconsin-Madison/NASA/NOAA via...topic in the Untied States. Hurricane Sandy brought...
    9. meacswacsports.blogspot.com/   09/25/2007
      ...m. (CT) Sat., Nov. 17 Florida A&M Univ. Madison, Wis. 4:30 p.m. (CT) Wed...Dec. 1 Northwestern University Chicago, Ill. 8:00 p.m. (CT) Sat., Dec. 8 South Carolina State University Orangeburg., S.C. 6:00...
    10. anastaplo.wordpress.com/   09/29/2011
      ...’ A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1971) has some relation to the...in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Mr. Justice Black,” April 18, 1972...
    11. Ill State Univ - Blog Homepage Results

      ... the same amount to then Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during that same span. 32. WMD Policy Czar – Gary... similar issues: NSC; Defense; State • Will coordinate issues related...



    Related Video with ill state univ







    ill state univ Video 1








    ill state univ Video 2








    ill state univ Video 3




    ill state univ































    0 개의 댓글:

    댓글 쓰기