- We've all heard of the Drake curse in sports. You've probably heard of a Kardashian curse, too.
- But now those worlds seem to be colliding as Kim watched two losers in European soccer this week.
English Premier League table-toppers Arsenal and Ligue 1 runaway leaders Paris Saint-Germain both suffered losses in different competitions last week.
As Kim Kardashian attended both matches, it can mean only one thing: She cursed the teams.
OK, maybe not, but it sure seems like it from the headlines in sports publications as varied as ESPN in the US, and tabloid pages like The Mirror and The Sun in the UK.
According to TMZ Sports, Kardashian's oldest son, Saint, is soccer-mad and plays in a lot of local league matches back home in Calabasas, California.
Kim, the gossip site said, regularly watches him play. And so it should be no surprise to see them both taking that shared interest on the road to watch Arsenal's Europa League game against Sporting CP on Thursday last week, before jetting to Paris for PSG's domestic game against Rennes on Sunday.
There was no luck for the home sides in either game, as Sporting dumped Arsenal out of the continental competition before Rennes pulled off a shocking 2-0 win, PSG's first home league loss in 715 days.
Those defeats may or may not be down to a so-called curse.
Gossip pages like Page Six, for example, have reported in the past that though "no scientific evidence" for a curse exists, there's a growing list of men who entered relationships with various members of the Kardashian dynasty to only suffer some kind of downfall in their personal and/or professional lives.
'Men need to take responsibility' for their own downturns in life, Kendall Jenner said two years ago
The list, Page Six claimed, featured Kanye West, obviously, and Travis Scott, Lamar Odon, Tyga, and Kris Humphries, among others.
"What I don't like about this narrative is that the blame is on us," Kendall Jenner told Andy Cohen in 2021, when the TV presenter asked which Kardashian family members, if any, believed the curse was real.
"I think the men need to take that responsibility," Jenner said.
—Kards Katch Up (@kardskatchup) June 20, 2021
Drake may be able to breathe a sigh of relief that talk of a curse has seemingly moved on to the Kardashians
Of all the people to hear about this apparent Kardashian curse in sports, the person to be most relieved may well be Drake.
For years, the smash-hit rapper was linked with sporting disasters shortly after he associated himself with a team, or athlete.
Drake bet on, supported, or took photographs with various people in sports and, in a cataclysmic run, heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua lost to Andy Ruiz, Conor McGregor suffered defeat against Khabib Nurmagomedov, and Serena Williams got knocked out of the US Open.
Only time will tell if Kardashian has as bad a run in sports as Drake.