The Curse Of Video Game Covers Top Ten

 The Portland Trail Blazers released Greg Oden after a five-year, injury-tainted marriage that was star-crossed before he could show up for his first training camp. Oden is one of the most ill-fated athletes ever to appear on the cover of a video game, starring on the cover of College Hoops 2K8. It got me to thinking about other cover choices that either were ill-fated, or ended up that way—for athlete, or publisher, or both.This isn't the same as the "cover curse," associated most with the Madden franchise. That typically governs calamities that happen in the season in which the athlete appears on the cover. Nor is it the misfortune of being the last star of a canceled series. These are special circumstances, in which the context surrounding the appearance later darkens or makes a parody of what should be an honor for the athlete and the public face of a publisher's game.

"Disaster" comes from latin, and its meaning is basically "ill-starred." Basically, things like earthquakes, fires and natural destruction are attributable to astrology. I'll use the classical definition of disaster here in talking about 10 star-crossed covers of sports video games released in North America.by owen good