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, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

However the Shield of Heracles is now known to be spurious and probably was written in the sixth century BC.

However, back-up quarterback Mike Livingston of Southern Methodist University fame engineered five wins of the next six starts, with Dawson coming off the bench in the second half of the sixth to clinch the win.

However, in the T-carrier systems used in the U. S. and Canada, a technique called bit-robbing uses, in every sixth frame, the least significant bit in the time slot associated with the voice channel for Channel Associated Signaling ( CAS ).

However, at the season-ending Rally GB, the team achieved their best result with McRae finishing fourth and Eriksson sixth.

However, several Flemish political parties want a sixth state reform following the 2007 general election, while the vast majority of Walloon politicians oppose this.

However it wound up the sixth most popular movie at the British box office in 1948.

However, by the sixth and seventh centuries it had become obsolete and had been replaced by those of Victorius of Aquitaine and, more accurately, those of Dionysius Exiguus.

" However, there are several instances of uninterrupted continuity between the Fifth and the sixth dynasties: Kagemni, the vizer of Unas's successor Teti, began his career under Djedkare Isesi and Unas.

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, one month after the sixth PE session, there was a progressive worsening of insomnia and diurnal drowsiness, which promptly disappeared after another two PE sessions.

However, as of 2005-2006 session, select Harrow secondary schools introduced sixth forms in the hope to retain more of the pupils and to provide them an alternative to the large tertiary colleges.

However, the arrangement whereby the apse with the altar is at the west end of the church and the entrance on the east is found also in Roman churches contemporary with Saint Peter's ( such as the original Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls ) that were under no such constraints of terrain, and the same arrangement remained the usual one until the sixth century.

However, when Forester decided to write about Hornblower's early career in the sixth novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, he made his hero about five years younger, giving his birthdate as July 4, 1776 ( the date of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence ).

However, both Alban Berg and Anton Webern praised it when they first heard it: for Berg it was " the only sixth, despite the Pastoral "; while Webern actually conducted it on more than one occasion.

However, the magazine ended after its sixth issue on 24 April.

However, the majority of classical rabbis believed that the biblical phrase hallow the fiftieth year, together with the biblical promise that there would be three years worth of fruit in the sixth year, implies that the jubilee year was the 50th year.

However the Shia faith believe the 6th pillar is khomes which means that you have to pay 1: 5 of your wealth to the poor and needy, unlike some Sunni minorities such as the Taliban and Al Qaeda, identifying those groups as sharing the Kharijite view that jihad is the sixth pillar of Islam, and renewalist groups such as Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which are described as not sharing that view.

However, Hulme was outshone by friend and team-mate Peter Revson in 1973, and he finished a place down on the American in sixth, 12 points adrift.

However this season also ended in defeat as London Wasps won their sixth title, fourth via the play-offs.

However, he rallied and knocked out Graziano in the sixth round to retain his title.

However, Stefan had ten siblings ( he himself was the sixth out of nine brothers ), and divided into that many parts, the family resources would be stretched rather thin.

However, the sixth sphere placed in this way will render the structure inconsistent with any regular arrangement.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

However, any activity outside the rules of the game is not legally recognized as a defense of consent.

However, the stock market was used as a " third shareholder " in previous versions of the game.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

However, the game system was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon # 155 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in " The Role of Computers " column.

However, such a tactic was not recorded as a stolen base, and modern rules forbid going backwards on the basepaths in order to " confuse the defense or make a travesty of the game ".

However, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

However, between two high-skilled capoeiristas, the game can get much more aggressive and dangerous.

However, the Panthers ' season came to a crushing end, as they lost to the Arizona Cardinals 33 – 13 at Bank of America Stadium in the NFC Divisional playoff game.

However, there is no evidence that pall mall involved the croquet stroke which is the distinguishing characteristic of the modern game.

However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players ( in all versions other than golf croquet ) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents.

However, they ended up five games behind the Chicago White Sox in the Central division and missed the wild card by one game to the Seattle Mariners.

However, by this time the market was in the midst of the first video game crash, and Fairchild eventually threw in the towel and left the market.

However, the game does not have a scoring or rewards system of any kind, either for killing women or doing anything else.

However, in the Canadian game, eligible receivers may move in any direction before the snap, any number may be in motion at any one time, and there is no need to be motionless before the snap.

" However the Times also reflected widespread skepticism as to whether the forward pass could be effectively integrated into the game: " There has been no team that has proved that the forward pass is anything but a doubtful, dangerous play to be used only in the last extremity.

However, that Yale / Harvard game was played three weeks after St. Louis completed 45 and 48-yard passes against Kansas before a crowd of 7, 000 at Sportsman's Park.

However, the larger impact area can compensate for reduced accuracy, since shot spreads during flight ; consequently, in hunting, shotguns are generally used for flying game ( See Spreading details ).

However after winning the trophy, where Hagi scored the only goal of the game, Steaua did not want to release him back to Sportul Studențesc and retained him.

However, other long-term fans felt that the game fit Glorantha far better than RuneQuest.

However, he and his colleagues were denied title glory as Liverpool also won their final league game of the season at Chelsea.

However, this is usually not the case if the rights to sell the game outside its country of origin are sold to another publisher.

However, due to the prevalence of 3dfx hardware at the time of release, the Windows version of the game installs an OpenGL ICD ( opengl32. dll ) designed specifically for 3dfx's hardware.

( However, he broke his wrist in the second game.

However, the signature game of the series was Game 6.