Sports’ Undangered Species

Starting with his first trip to Wimbledon in 1973, girls would literally attack Bjorn Borg, in a phenomenon known as a Borgasm.

Have you noticed a lot of the things that used to be popular seem to be in the tank in the twenty-first century? Do those things just suck now or are we so hyperstimulated today, have such short attention spans that we are ready to move on to the next thing even if the last thing was still perfectly good?

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The Rich Hill Curse

World Series defeats happen for a bunch of different reasons, bad bounces, errant throws, untimely slumps, questionable pitching changes, slippery, juiced baseballs, but they mostly happen because of a curse. A curse can be brought on by anything really, it could be linked to an animal or a former player or be triggered by an unwise decision to tempt the gods. For the Dodgers, the curse revolves around Rich Hill.

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