Despite having a two-year contract, NBC announced shortly after the season that it was getting out, as the season's later games had garnered the lowest ratings for a major American television network since the Nielsen ratings had begun tracking them, and the league folded shortly afterwards.

Despite facial burns during a pit fire in the 1981 Indianapolis 500, Mears ' ten wins in the two-year span were enough for another two Indycar championship titles.

Despite mounting speculation of a move to either Manchester United or Arsenal, he signed a two-year contract with QPR that summer.

Despite only making one appearance for Celtic in that time, he was rewarded with a two-year contract in July 2003.

Despite this, the player and agent re-opened talks with the club and on 11 August he signed a two-year deal with Blackpool.

Despite the disappointment of defeat in the final to Bournemouth, Marriott agreed a new two-year contract in the summer of 2003.

Despite allegations by Roman sources of adultery and divorce, the marriage appears to have been happy.

Despite a number of invitations, the Court has so far refused to apply the protections of this article to same-sex marriage.

Despite the comparative obscurity of the kingdom, there were strong connections between Essex and the Kentish kingdom across the river Thames which led to the marriage of King Sledd to Ricula, sister of the king, Aethelbert of Kent.

Despite the rejection of his marriage proposal, he continues to court Miss Vane.

Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding.

Despite his affection for Mary, Henry was deeply disappointed that his marriage had produced no sons.

Despite Mary's marriage to Philip, England did not benefit from Spain's enormously lucrative trade with the New World.

Despite Somerset's disappointment that no Scottish marriage would take place, his victory at Pinkie Cleugh made his position appear unassailable.

Despite being on her husband's arm when he was released in 1990, the first time the two had been seen in public for nearly thirty years, the Mandelas ' 38-year marriage ended when they separated in April 1992 after it was revealed that she had been unfaithful to Nelson during his imprisonment.

Despite Margaret's betrothal and continued presence at the French court, Anne arranged a marriage between Charles and Anne of Brittany.

Despite his alleged responsibility for the death of Edward's brother Alfred, Godwin secured the marriage of his daughter Edith ( Eadgyth ) to Edward in 1045.

Despite being personally opposed to early marriage, Tilak opposed the 1891 Age of Consent bill, seeing it as interference with Hinduism and a dangerous precedent.

Despite this, he still pressed for the marriage, which proved to be quite unhappy and produced no children.

Despite being a phenomenally successful playwright during his lifetime, his propensity for high living ( he had a table permanently reserved for him at Maxim's ), gambling, and the failure of his marriage led to financial difficulties.

Despite his marriage to Mahaut, he still fought against his brother-in-law Guy, who was killed at the Battle of Montmeillan.

Despite a marriage contract being signed between Portugal and Savoy on 15 May 1679, the marriage between Victor Amadeus and the Infanta came to nothing and was thus cancelled.

Despite this success, Zeno continued to be unpopular with the people and Senate because of his barbarian origins ; his right to the throne was limited to his marriage with Ariadne and his relationship to Verina, the dowager Empress.

Despite later reverses in the family's fortunes, on 13 August 1504 their only child, Jeanne de Commines ( d. 1513 ), made a splendid marriage to the heir of Brittany's most powerful family, René de Brosse comte de Penthièvre ( d. 1524 ).

Despite the revelations in O ' Brian's essay, O ' Brian's stepson Nikolai Tolstoy through O ' Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy disputes this, although he confirms that O ' Brian worked as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz, where he met Mary, the separated wife of Russian-born nobleman and lawyer Count Dimitri Tolstoy.

Despite the zany humor of the show, Taxi often tackled such dramatic issues as drug addiction, single parenthood, blindness, obesity, animal abuse, bisexuality, teenage runaways, failed marriage, sexual harassment, pre-menstrual mood disorders, gambling addiction, and the loss of a loved one.

Despite the marriage Coke was not buried next to Hatton, but instead next to Bridget Paston, who his daughter Anne declared was Coke's " first and best wife ".

For all that, in June 1961 Bray still decided to move and despite his recent marriage “ lmost every day went round, often spending a good part of the day or a large part of the evening there .” “ Oddly enough, this side of his life was well known about in Paris … natural reserve and well-developed sense of decorum were allied to his fear of giving offence to Suzanne .” Anthony Cronin notes that strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – during this time he was often to be found talking “ fervently and seriously about suicide .” Despite his unwillingness to do much about it he was clearly suffering badly from guilt.

Despite this, Alexander and Aspasia's marriage did have some degree of popular support.

Despite the fact Langford never received his rightful chance at the heavyweight title because of Jack Johnson's refusal to risk his crown against Langford, Ring magazine founder Nat Fleischer rated Langford as one of the ten best heavyweights of all time.

Despite Johnson's mediocre season, the Mets easily coasted to a division win but Johnson went 1-for-18 with six strikeouts in the 1988 NLCS.

Despite the question of bigamy arising in this documentary, there is no record for Johnson's marriage to Frances Clarke, although she is shown to have been recorded as both Frances Clarke Johnson and Frances Forsyth Johnson.

Despite the anti-Northern fury of prewar and wartime politics, most South Carolinians, including the state's leading opinion-maker, Wade Hampton III, believed that white citizens would do well to accept President Johnson's terms for full reentry to the Union.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

Despite his personal distaste for obesity ( `` disgusting '' ), Dr. Keys has only an incidental interest in how much Americans eat.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

Despite this, Almagro still obtained an important fortune for his services, and the King awarded him in November 1532 the noble title of " Don " and he was assigned a personal coat of arms.

Despite controversial press coverage of his personal life, Eriksson was consistently popular with the majority of fans.

Despite Lineker's personal performance, Tottenham finished this final pre-Premier League season in 15th place.

Despite his aping of Fascism, and the strong economic ties with resurgent Nazi Germany, Metaxas followed a policy of neutrality, given Greece's traditionally strong ties to Britain, reinforced by King George II's personal anglophilia.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

Despite her rejection of religion, she continued to maintain a personal belief in a God of some sort, relating in her autobiography that she believed in " an unseen over-ruling Power ," " which science calls Nature and religion calls God.

Despite all the personal turmoil, the 1950 – 54 period was actually quite fruitful for Davis artistically.

Despite the high level of integration with word processing in general personal computing.

Despite his initial popularity and personal charisma, problems began to surface in the implementation of the revolutionary ideals.

Despite the difficult situation, Bruckner never complained or rebelled ; a belief of inferiority was to remain one of Bruckner's main personal characteristics during his whole life.

Despite the moderate tone of Peng's letter, Mao took it as a personal attack against his leadership.

Despite more than $ 70 million in personal financing, his push to see phenytoin evaluated for alternative uses has had little lasting effect on the medical community.

Despite her personal views, Alexandra supported her son's reluctant agreement to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's request to create sufficient Liberal peers after a general election if the Lords continued to block the legislation.

Despite the Elector's crushing of Magdeburg's political aspirations, the personal relationship of von Guericke and Friedrich Wilhelm remained warm.

Despite his personal clout, however, Walpole could not stop Lord Godolphin and the Whigs from pressing for the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell, a minister who preached anti-Whig sermons.

Despite his personal anger over this outcome, which was considered a personal defeat by Luns, the foreign minister nevertheless worked to restore relations with Indonesia in the aftermath of the West New Guinea problem.

Despite his personal austerity, John had a high conception of the imperial role and would appear in full ceremonial splendour when this was advantageous.

Despite all these difficult matters, Queen Juliana's personal popularity suffered only temporarily.

Despite the best attentions of French and German doctors, including Adolf Hitler's personal physician Karl Brandt, Ernst vom Rath died on 9 November.

Despite her success as a writer, Duras's adult life was also marked by personal challenges, including a recurring struggle with alcoholism.