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 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 a general selling of state property and contrary to neoliberal prescriptions, the regime retained the lucrative state owned mining company CODELCO which stands for about 30 % of government income.

Despite his promises to the contrary, John appealed to Innocent for help, observing that the charter compromised the pope's rights under the 1203 agreement that had appointed him John's feudal lord.

Despite his physicians ' predictions to the contrary, after great effort Baba managed to walk again, but from that point on he was in constant pain and was severely limited in his ability to move.

Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, stuttering is not reflective of intelligence.

Despite its contrary nature, scalability also may be found in lossless codecs, usually in form of coarse-to-fine pixel scans.

Despite such associations and contrary to stated Social Democratic Party policy, Sweden had in fact secretly maintained extensive military co-operation with NATO over a long period, and was even under the protection of a US military security guarantee ( see Swedish neutrality during the Cold War ).

Despite an urban legend to the contrary, Paul Lynde remained in the center at the producers ' discretion.

Despite some belief to the contrary, the Cornish Rex's short hair does not make it non-or hypo-allergenic.

Despite evidence to the contrary, his view held sway with most chemists, and it became commonly accepted wisdom that creosote, carbolic acid, and phenylhydrate were identical substances, with different degrees of purity.

Despite numerous cast and production changes over the years, Last of the Summer Wine continued to be popular with viewers and was renewed year after year despite reports to the contrary.

Despite popular prejudices to the contrary, the U. S. economy consistently affords a lower level of economic mobility than all the continental European countries for which data is available.

Despite perceptions to the contrary, only a very small proportion of applications for Scheduled Monument Consent is refused.

Despite reports to the contrary, this duo was just called Kim and Kelley, not The Breeders or The Breederz.

Despite Davout's reports to the contrary, Napoleon ordered him to attack the Austrians on his front in the morning, with the proviso that Lefebvre's equally depleted corps would support him if he needed help ( A total of approximately 36, 000 men for both corps ).

Despite claims to the contrary, the opening scenes of the first episode, taking place on a train, bear a striking resemblance to those of the first episode of the series Peyton Place ; the made for television film, Della ( aka Royal Bay starring Joan Crawford ) appears to be the inspiration for the story involving Elizabeth.

Despite assurances to the contrary, the property rights of Mexican citizens were often not honored by the U. S. in accordance with modifications to and interpretations of the Treaty.

Despite the arrival of a contrary order from Moscow, Admiral Kolchak was sentenced to death along with his Prime Minister, Viktor Pepelyayev.

Despite claims to the contrary, he continued work with the band.

Despite the findings to the contrary, many people in France persisted in the belief that the Queen had used the La Mottes as an instrument to satisfy her hatred of the Cardinal de Rohan.

Despite some claims made to the contrary, Divine always considered himself to be male, and was not transgender or transsexual.

Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people.

Despite strong public and political sentiment to the contrary, however, there were some who encouraged the US government to help victims of Nazi genocide.