However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

However, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 ; this remains the longest championship drought in North American professional sports.

However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the chicane, a wreck with Chad Little while leading the spring race at Bristol, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Charlotte and Dover in a season dominated by the Ford Taurus in those tracks of Roush, Yates, and Penske, coupled with the extremely consistent Joe Gibb's No. 18 team with Bobby Labonte, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.

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However, they ended up winning their first 6 regular season games en route to an 11-5 record, the AFC West championship and the # 2 AFC playoff seed.

However, they would proceed to lose the World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games, after twice being one strike away from the championship in game 6.

However the championship was not decided until the day after in a court appeal in Melbourne in which Lowndes ' Triple 8 Engineering team lost.

However, in the next three races, Schumacher won the next three allowing him to close the championship gap to Häkkinen in the drivers ' standings.

However, they never were able to claim a Frontier League championship win.

However, the Flyers didn't come close to a third straight championship without an injured Bernie Parent, as they ran into an up-and-coming dynasty in Montreal, and were swept in four straight games.

However, in 1894, four teams out of the five-team AHAC tied for the championship with records of 5 – 3 – 0.

However, the Heat took the next two games to win the series and went on to win that year's championship.

However, it has not made an appearance in a championship round since its last year in the ABA.

However, Edmonton failed to win the championship, as they fell to the Winnipeg Jets in the Avco World Trophy Final.

However, their 500 cc Grand Prix bike was less competitive, and their MotoGP effort, dubbed the RS3 Cube, was technically advanced but difficult to ride and performed poorly in the championship.

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However, Schumacher won seven of the next twelve races, and took his second title with two races to spare, while Benetton took the constructors ' championship.

However, Hill took the lead at the start and won both the race and the championship after the Canadian retired.

However, when Cobden High School played for and lost the state basketball championship in 1964, this mascot became the pride of Cobden and Southern Illinois, showing the world what a small town could really do.

However, a check of Milan's championship run schedule in the ' 53 -' 54 season does not list Oolitic as an opponent.

However, the team rebounded the next game to claim the championship for the 5th consecutive season.

However, with other promotion rivals dropping points and a small run of form in late April, Southampton were able to reach sixth place, the last play-off position.

However, after 13 league matches Eriksson left the club by mutual consent on 24 October 2011 with the Foxes sitting in the 13th position in the league, 2 points from a play-off position.

However, once again it was not to be, as Lincoln lost 3 – 1 on aggregate to become the first team ever to lose four consecutive play-off competitions.

However, at the end of Season 2006-07 Airdrie ended in the relegation play-off finals, losing 5-4 on aggregate to Stirling Albion.

However the enforced relegation of Gretna to the Third Division, following them being put into administration, caused a restructuring of the leagues, with Airdrie being promoted to the First Division by virtue of being the losing play-off finalists, and 2008 – 09 season as relegation play-off finalists ( losing 3-2 on aggregate to Second Division runners up Ayr United ).

However it was Leicester Riders who triumphed 84-75, and the Sharks were beaten again in the play-off final the following year, 93-82 by Cheshire Jets.

However as few west Wales clubs can face the prospect of the travelling implications of moving up to the Welsh Football League, this four-way play-off idea is theory rather than practice.

However, Kendal Town snatched the final play-off spot, leaving Hednesford with a fourth successive season at step three.

However after the disappointment of the play-off defeat to Belgium, the fortunes of the national team began to change significantly with a settled team of star players at top European clubs such as Pavel Nedvěd, Jan Koller, Tomáš Rosický, Milan Baroš, Marek Jankulovski and Tomáš Galásek together with the emergence of highly-rated young goalkeeper Petr Čech.

However, 3rd place in Division 2 of the NatWest Pro 40 League was enough to earn them a place in the play-off final against Northamptonshire Steelbacks.

However, the club had a disastrous 2006 – 07 season, in which the club finished ninth, and only just avoided a relegation play-off.

However from the 2009 – 10 season, a play-off structure was re-introduced, similar to that used in the English Premiership.

However, Gloucester Rugby were beaten heavily by the Tigers with the final score being 44 – 16, Gloucester Rugby again being defeated by the play-off system.

However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 2 – 0 in Moscow to progress, and send them crashing into the Europa League play-off round, where Dynamo were eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0 – 0 away draw in Sofia, and a 1 – 2 home defeat in Moscow.

However, after spending the majority of the season in a play-off position, the side missed out on the final day of the season after suffering a 1 – 0 defeat against Sheffield Wednesday.

However, Leigh were defeated in the play-off semi-finals and Widnes went on to win the Grand Final and a place in Super League.

Libya's last clash with Morocco was at the 2006 African Nations Cup, where it finished goalless ( However, Libya also recently contested a fiery two-legged play-off tie for the 2009 African Championship of Nations, which Libya won 4 – 3 on aggregate ).

However, they finished level on points with Padova, and lost a promotion play-off which would be a bitter blow for the club, who would suffer relegation to Serie C1 in 1997.

However defeats to Middlesbrough and Cardiff City in 4 days ended the Derby's play-off chances.

However, thanks to the restructuring of the Irish Football League they were given the chance to avoid relegation, with a play-off against Bangor over two legs.

However, he was unable to keep Cardiff in the play-off places and he returned to Manchester United at the end of the season.

However, as autumn came the form faded and the club had to suffer play-off matches against Assyriska FF and it wasn't until the second match, on extra time, that Örebro was able to win and stay in Allsvenskan.

However, they eventually ended up in the relegation play-off against Genoa, due to a late Inter Milan goal assisted by a Rubén Sosa corner, which they won on penalties.