Despite rumors to the contrary, there is no scientific evidence linking cycling with testicular cancer.

Despite midseason trade rumors, Beltrán would prove instrumental to the team's hopes, hitting eight home runs in the postseason.

Despite Valenti's two-year marriage to Johnson's personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.

Despite persistent rumors, encouraged by some Islamic publications and websites, Cousteau did not convert to Islam, and when he died he was buried in a Roman Catholic Christian funeral.

Despite an illegitimate daughter, rumors also surrounded Julius ' sexuality.

Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, however, Mosaic was never released as open source software during its brief reign as a major browser ; there were always constraints on permissible uses without payment.

Despite rumors that Chiang had put a high price on Zhou's head, he was quickly released by Bai Chongxi's forces.

Despite rumors to the contrary, the brown recluse spider has not established itself in California or anywhere outside its native range.

Despite the rumors, the imperial family's association with Rasputin continued until Rasputin was murdered in 1916.

Despite the rumors, the imperial family's association with Rasputin continued until his murder on December 17, 1916.

Despite the fact that he left the area upon graduating from high school, the town always followed his career closely, with the local newspaper periodically publishing rumors in his later years that Stewart planned to return there to live.

Despite recurring rumors, he never served in the military.

Despite the critical praise for Live Through This, furious rumors circulated insinuating that Cobain had actually written the majority of the album, though the band vehemently denies this.

Despite rumors she would retire as a result of old age, poor health, and the death of her husband, she denied she was planning to step down.

Despite their success, rumors began to surface about the duo, and were confirmed later that year, when Milli Vanilli's svengali producer and manager, Frank Farian, publicly revealed that the two hadn't performed a single note on their album.

" Despite numerous tabloid rumors, he denied his homosexual / bi-sexual orientation for the first half of his career, until his stance relaxed considerably after emigrating to Vancouver.

Despite rumors, Pontiac never built a GTO station wagon on its assembly lines.

Despite rumors that Carter might pull out an " October Surprise " and get the hostages home before the election, negotiations dragged on for months, even after Republican Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in November.

Despite rumors indicating otherwise, Ormandy's departure was amicable, and Chris Taylor Brown continues to speak highly of Ormandy to the media, while promoting Torres as the new guitarist.

Despite a message from the concert managers that the show was a one time benefit for Chris Knox and not the restart of Jeff Mangum's musical career, the show sparked rumors that Mangum would begin recording and touring again.

Despite the rampant rumors, gamblers continued to wager heavily against the White Sox.

Despite the beginning of an Egyptian shift from a pro-Soviet to a pro-American orientation in 1972 ( under Egypt's new leader Anwar El Sadat ), rumors of imminent Soviet intervention on the Egyptians ' behalf during the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought about a massive American mobilization that threatened to wreck détente.

Despite playing through rumors of sale and relocation in the near future to Marion, Illinois, the Silver Hawks managed a championship season in 2005, beating the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers three games to two and winning the 2005 Midwest League Championship.

Despite speculation that the game would be based on Super Metroid, Ken Lobb, Nintendo of America's Director of Game Development, quelled rumors by stating, " One of the things I wanted to get across in today's meeting is that Metroid is not Super Metroid.

Despite popularity with fans and even rumors that the uniforms would stick around as an alternate ( which was worn once during the 2003 season ), team currently does not have a third jersey.

Despite decisively defeating the Marathas, what might have been Ahmad Shah's peaceful control of his domains was disrupted by many challenges.

Despite some initial expressions of enthusiasm, Hoxha and Shehu mistrusted Nikita Khrushchev's programs of " peaceful coexistence " and " different roads to socialism " because they appeared to pose the threat that Yugoslavia might again try to take control of Albania.

Despite the passport union with Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland Finland could not join the Nordic Council until 1955 because of Soviet fears that Finland might become too close to the West.

Despite the issuing of new currency and administrative reforms, Stephen might potentially have lived for many more years, whilst Henry's position on the continent was far from secure.

Despite his complaints that the house was too big (" big enough for two emperors, one pope, and the grand lama in the bargain "), Jefferson considered how the White House might be added to.

Despite this, in some countries ( or states of the United States ), the courts will seldom apply principles of fault, but might willingly hold a party liable for a breach of a fiduciary duty to his or her spouse ( for example, see Family Code Sections 720 and 1100 of the California Family Code ).

Despite subsequent events, there is no evidence that the young Arthur might have had ulterior motives at this time, despite the fact that Butler had helped to educate half the government of the United Kingdom.

Despite being located close to the equator, Bujumbura is not nearly as warm as one might expect due to its altitude.

Despite Garbo's popularity as a silent movie star, the studio feared that her Swedish accent might impair her work in sound and delayed the shift for as long as possible.

Despite accepting the above arrangements, Stalin dominated the conference, using the Soviet victory at the Battle of Kursk and military might, as well as key positions on the German front, to get his way.

Despite its occasional use of patronizing stereotypes, Bondanella concludes that Beppo " is represented with great dignity and even comic twists, making Beppo a far more lovable figure than one might expect.

Despite any disagreement he might have towards the plans his aunts have, Bertie feels obliged to follow their whims, often getting in trouble for doing so.

Despite his fury of war, Diomedes held back his sword so that the old man might speak.

Despite enjoying what some might consider a reasonable amount of time on Greenland in conjunction with varying times of successes and failures, the Norse settlement in Greenland did not last more than 500 years.

Despite the technical difficulties up to that point, Komarov might still have landed safely.

Despite the issuing of new currency and administrative reforms, Stephen might potentially have lived for many more years, whilst Henry's position on the continent was far from secure.

Despite apparent benevolence existing in the notion of the " White Man's Burden ", the unintended consequences of imperialism might greatly outweigh the potential benefits.

Despite this newest theory of reading, Barthes remained concerned with the difficulty of achieving truly neutral writing, which required an avoidance of any labels that might carry an implied meaning or identity towards a given object.

Despite Lincoln's concerns that immediate emancipation in the South might drive some slave holding Unionists to support the Confederacy, the national mood was quickly moving against slavery, especially within the Army.

Despite whatever value judgments one might have about it, pride in one's community, one's ethnic group membership, one's nation and the like, are forms of prejudice.

Despite a brilliant circumnavigation of U. S. naval forces, Cervera simply did not have the firepower to engage the might of the United States fleet.

Despite their rhetoric, Arab armies committed few atrocities and no large-scale massacre of prisoners took place when circumstances might have allowed them to happen, as when they took the Old City of Jerusalem or the villages of Atarot, Neve Yaakov, Nitzanim, Gezer and Mishmar Hayarden.

: Despite the attacks on herself and Shipon, Yayoi lies to protect Ayaka when it looked like she might face expulsion from Stellvia.

Despite Rusty's statements to the media that he was never told by psychiatrists that she was psychotic nor that she could harm her children, and that he would have never had more children had he known otherwise, she revealed to her jail psychiatrist, Dr. Melissa Ferguson, that prior to their last child, " she had told Rusty that she did not want to have sex because Dr. Starbranch had said she might hurt her children.