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Lost in the shuffle, however, are the other cover stars who thrived during their featured year. In 2004, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis earned All-Pro honors (as did George in 2000). Levens' 1999 campaign was among his best. Even players seen as evidence of a cover jinx still put up respectable - if diminished - numbers. Hearst galloped for 1,570 yards in 1998, scoring a Pro Bowl appearance in the process. And while St. Louis Rams RB Marshall Faulk's production slipped in 2002 - and fell precipitously after that - the jitterbugging back still notched 1,490 combined yards while coping...
...been involved with has been coincidence after coincidence," Erb said in 2005. "We've just had a string of bad luck." After being waylaid by a broken foot in 2006, Seattle's Alexander declared, "Curse or no curse, everybody, and I mean everybody, wants to be on that cover. I don't know one person that would...
...renowned for being superstitious - athletes have tried to bust slumps by donning women's underwear, eating the same meal each day and performing elaborate foul-line rituals - talk of a Madden Curse doesn't seem to have caught much traction. And for good reason. Most of the under-performing cover stars were felled by injury - a common affliction in a brutally rough sport: According to a 2005 study, nearly 70% of football players suffer an injury each year. Those whose skills seemed to dwindle during their cover season may simply have peaked quickly in a sport whose shelf lives...
...part, Fitzgerald is unconcerned. "I didn't think about the curse," he said. And why should he? He's already appeared on a video game cover ("NCAA Football 2005") without incident. Besides, the year of the first shared Madden NFL cover has already been marked by the retirement of the game's first-ever cover boy. Perhaps Madden's departure will augur the start of a happier streak...
...float sold short, a sign that a huge number of investors are willing to gamble against the share price. Citi's stock is subject to wild swings, in part because the short sellers in the company's shares have been "squeezed" more than once this year - forced to cover when the banks had good news. That covering magnified the rebound in Citi's share price. Citi is a "rumor a day" stock. Recently, the market has speculated about the fate of the bank's CEO, Vikram Pandit, whether the firm will have to raise money because of government stress tests...