It was my favorite magazine, and this was back when the mailman dropped off a stack of subscriptions in our mailbox every week.

Growing up we had Time, Newsweek, Ebony, Jet, Black Enterprise, Reader’s Digest, GQ and Psychology Today.

My brother was a psych major.

My favorite by far was Sports Illustrated.

Little would excite me more when I got home from school or football practice than to see a glossy edition of the latest Sports Illustrated sitting on the coffee table, Dan Marino or Reggie Jackson on the cover, a spread inside about the Giants’ playoff chances.

I put off doing my homework to see what Peter Gammons had to say about the Mets.

You didn’t want to see your favorite player or team on the cover because of the so-called “Sports Illustrated jinx.”

The Houston Astros broke the curse in 2017, winning the World Series despite a prediction they would win on the magazine’s cover.

But that was the year they........

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