1.   They have the characteristic of never running dry in the longest drought or freezing in the coldest frost.

2.   A win would put the Cardinals into the playoffs and end the longest drought in the NFL.

3.   During the six games without a victory, their longest drought in three years, the Yankees had withered from postseason favorites to doubting shadows of their former selves.

4.   Graham said the cooling trend should signal an end to the longest drought in recorded Australian history.

5.   LaFontaine entered the game with a streak of no goals in his six previous games, his longest drought of the season.

6.   Piazza had gone eight games without a home run, matching his longest drought of the season.

7.   That ties him for the longest drought in league history with Chuck Knox, who was head coach of the Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks.

8.   The Astros had nine homers in the three-game series after going without one during the three games in Atlanta, their longest drought of the season.

9.   The bedeviled power forward has gone nine consecutive games without a point, his longest drought in a decade.

10.   The El Nino weather pattern has been linked to tropical rains in Southern California, blizzards in the Rocky Mountains and the longest drought in Australian recorded history.