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Scapegoat for SI Jinx This Year Chosen
First Latino in the mix
 Sports Illustrated’s yearly ritual has come again this year. Miguel Tostada is their choice this year to blame for the jinx that they put every year on their pre-season #1 ranked college football school. The USC Trojans are featured on the cover of an SI magazine issue as the #1 ranked pre-season college football program in the country. Their fate has been decided by the SI jinx even before the season has started, as no #1 ranked football program pre-season has ever won a national championship. While they claim that they don’t believe in jinxes and their predetermination, what they think really doesn’t matter when they are up against powers stronger than their football recruiting program. SI assigns the blame of the jinx to one of its workers every year, and that person gets sentenced to an average of about 25 years in prison. The sacrifice is made similar to how Native Americans sacrifice lamb to their god idol statues, with as much blood spilling as possible. USC’s legal team is known to be more aggressive and this year’s candidate might go away for almost 30 years (and pints of blood) if convicted on all counts. The chip company Tostada, has come to the defense of Miguel to defend his name, and theirs as well. They are trying to convince Miguel to accept a plea deal which would result in about 15 pints (read years) of blood instead of a trial where he could end up with 30 pints (read long time).  People have talked about the Madden video game jinx. Players put on the cover for Madden always seem to get injured or play terribly. Prosecutors have yet to jump on any EA worker, but the sacrifice process is in negotiation talks. Rumors are that they want someone at EA to fry over these infractions, and they are going after top management. The CEO of EA Sports refuses to disclose the name of top executives, which he claims to be highly private, but the court was able to stealthily obtain a list of names from their website’s home page. Their Chief Technical Officer’s name succinctly disappeared from the page after that little inconsistency. It seems kind of mean that one person every year has to take the complete blame for a jinx that they probably had nothing to do with. Miguel worked in HR, and had nothing to do with the design and completion of the cover story on the SI issue. Last year, they let a janitor take the blame for the pre-season college football issue, connecting him to the issue because he “took out the trash” of the lead writer. The fact that the janitor’s best friend has started a company, directly competing with EA in video gaming and SI in sports writing, that just happens to have a lot of EA’s unused designs and SI’s article drafts is just weird. George Bush has directed SI and EA to recruit fresh new workers from campuses like the University of California, at Berkeley, known for its liberal standing and anti-Bush sentiments. Expendable, bright, young students are something this administration apparently must “stay the course” on.
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