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What better time to discuss superstitions?

By Paul Lukas
Special to Page 2

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Back when the NCAA basketball tourney was about to start, there was a lot of fuss -- some of it coming from Uni Watch -- about Florida's new gator-print uniforms, which came in several colors and were expected to be the talk of the tournament. But as it turned out, Florida never wore the reptilian pattern during the tourney. Why? Because they wore the gator-print unis just before the tournament, in a game against Tennessee, and got thumped. "We're superstitious," Joakim Noah later said (toward ...

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