Any recap of a year in sports demands a great lede, like: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

But no. We’re talking Cleveland sports.

And this year the sun shined almost all the time. The basketball team was tough, the baseball team was smart, and the football team was … the Browns.

You may have heard that the Cavaliers beat Golden State in the N.B.A. finals to give Cleveland its first major sports championship since 1964. (If not, let me ask: How was Pluto?) It was sweet to watch a team that had dismissed its coach at midseason and been left for dead in the finals overpower Wardell Stephen Curry II and the All-Galaxy Warriors. (No need to mention that Cleveland has treated the Californians as ginger-haired members of the blended family ever since.)