Despite the fact that the show ended in 1998, the success of the live-action Spider-Man films have sparked more interest in new fans, allowing the series to air in reruns due to its new owners: Disney.

Despite being co-owned with Disney Channel — and targeting a similar audience, very little of Disney Channel's programming has aired on ABC Family ( except for reruns of Boy Meets World and Sister, Sister which have previously aired on that network ; in fact, episodes of Sister, Sister that aired on ABC Family until it was removed from the lineup in April 2010 were the edited Disney Channel versions as ABC Family did not purchase the original syndicated prints of the show from CBS Television Distribution ).

Despite a lead-in of reruns from ABC's popular Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and a lead-out of reruns from the also-popular Desperate Housewives, the show's ratings were dismal, with the premiere episode receiving just a 2. 9 rating among 18-49 viewers, with about 11. 4 million viewers.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

Despite the economic instability, fantasy sports started to become a mainstream hobby.

Despite this, Falk participated in team sports, mainly baseball and basketball, as a boy.

Despite the AFL's New York Jets winning the previous season's Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans thought it was a fluke and continued to believe that the NFL was still superior to the AFL, and thus fully expected the Vikings to defeat the Chiefs ; the Vikings entered the Super Bowl as 12. 5 to 13-point favorites.

Despite this, he disliked other sports and would sneak out of school every Thursday afternoon to the local cinema.

Despite the considerable difference in equipment the two activities offer similar pleasures and some pilots are involved in both sports.

Despite being a relatively small company by global motorcycling standards, Aprilia is very active in motorcycle sports.

Despite the name, there are 17 partial or full-time members: 16 basketball and other sports, and one affiliate member that participate in women's field hockey only.

Despite lackluster football and basketball teams, Mathews High School is known for success in several sports including Boy's and Girl's Crew Teams, Boys and Girls Cross Country, Volleyball, Wrestling, Softball, and Track and Field.

Despite all of this Waluigi has never been in a major Mario series game that is not sports or puzzle related.

Despite the production values he brought to NCAA college football, Scherick wanted low-budget ( as in inexpensive broadcasting rights ) sports programming that could attract and retain an audience.

Despite this the car has become an iconic sports car, including in countries from the Western World ( mainly the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada ).

Despite having a full-time job at the New Haven Clock Company ( A Camp Family Business ) and being an unpaid yet very involved adviser to the Yale football team, Camp wrote articles and books on gridiron and also on sports in general.

Despite the traffic noise the road is still upmarket, featuring five-star hotels ( such as The Dorchester, Grosvenor House Hotel and InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel ) and showrooms for several makes of sports car.

Despite his successes, Buckner is best remembered for a fielding error during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets, a play that since became prominently entrenched into American sports lore.

Despite the fact that commercial stations ( such as Sky Sports ) have acquired the vast majority of sports television broadcasting rights in the UK, the BBC remains dominant in radio sport with BBC Radio 5 Live and its local radio stations.

Despite many television rights to sporting events being heavily fought over by commercial companies, such as Sky Sports and ITV Sport, radio sports coverage for many events are still held by the BBC: the main competitor being the commercial station talkSPORT.

Despite its size, the school has a comprehensive athletic program with over 70 teams among 18 interscholastic sports.

Despite the Posse's failure, the Posse was the first effort by any major professional sports league to place a team in Las Vegas proper ; this is something that most major leagues have traditionally avoided due in part to Las Vegas's gambling reputation, as well as the fact that the city has only recently grown to major size.

Despite this increase in popularity, women's professional sports leagues continue to struggle financially.

Despite the inflation over recent years Freddo chocolate bars have been a consistent seller to the extreme sports community, often being supplied by skateparks.

Despite his statistical accomplishments, he is sometimes referred to as the most underrated or overlooked athlete in modern American sports history.

Despite the political-economical adversities of the postwar years, the company manufactured automobiles and, eventually, became a world powerhouse for producing sports cars.

Despite a childhood that included health problems like rickets, and a serious case of either asthma or pneumonia when he was three, Gibson was active in sports in both informal and organized settings, particularly baseball and basketball.

Despite the underachievement, the VooDoo proved to be hits with New Orleans for the second consecutive year, with an average attendance of 15, 338, good for third in the 17-team AFL, and again had the New Orleans market lead the nation in television ratings for Sunday AFL broadcasts on NBC.

Despite the move, the station still broadcasts from its tower atop Pine Mountain just south of Manchester on State Route 190.

Despite a bout with Bell's palsy, which left him with slightly slurred speech, Kiner is still broadcasting, entering his 51st year of doing Mets broadcasts as of the start of the 2012 baseball season, though only as an occasional guest analyst.

Despite German radio broadcasts claiming to have captured Warsaw, the attack was stopped and soon afterwards Warsaw was placed under siege.

Despite the death of Al-Afad, propaganda broadcasts were made by a surviving group of Al-Afad soldiers called the Black Brigade, headed by one of Al-Afad's sons.

Despite the EP not being released, the band promoted the recordings through radio and television broadcasts, which increased their popularity.

Despite being laid off following the 1951 IL season because the brewery felt no need for a salaried announcer, he joined WITH in order for him to continue doing the broadcasts.

Despite its name, ABC's sports coverage is supplemental to and not a simulcast of ESPN, although ESPN and ESPN2 will often carry ABC's regional broadcasts that otherwise wouldn't air in certain markets.

Despite the lip service paid by local governments, the anti-secrecy statutes have been continuously subverted by reservations and rationalizations.

Despite these achievements, the influence of Aristotle's errors is considered by some to have held back science considerably.

Despite this controversy, many properties of diatomic astatine have been predicted.

Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

Despite this unofficial standard, regional variations of American English have not only persisted but have actually intensified, according to linguist William Labov.

Despite display rules and guidances, accidents have continued to happen.

Despite the shared name of " Adoptionism " the Spanish Adoptionist Christology appears to have differed sharply from the Adoptionism of early Christianity.

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

Despite the fundamental importance and frequent necessity of statistical reasoning, there may nonetheless have been a tendency among biologists to distrust or deprecate results which are not qualitatively apparent.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

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 their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Despite its small size, 31 Caltech alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology.

Despite the risk factors associated with bicycling, cyclist have a lower overall mortality rate when compared to other groups.

Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics.

Despite the foregoing, most CD-Rs on the market have an 80 minute capacity.

Despite the limitations imposed on ancient Chinese concubines, history and literature have examples of concubines achieving great power and influence.

Despite being one of Mather's most well-known works, many have openly criticized it, labeling it as hard to follow and understand, and poorly paced and organized.