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The year 2016 in sports: Are we certain this isn’t the end times?

Oh sure, it began innocently enough, with the Denver Broncos winning a Super Bowl. No shocker there.

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But then the previously unthinkable starting happening at a rather alarming clip. Leicester City won the English Premier League, a result so unexpected for a team that had barely avoided relegation a season earlier in a league that has only ever been won by a handful of rich clubs, that the odds against it happening were, not to get too technical here, a bazillion to one.

Then the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA title, which in a sense was normal enough since that was the whole idea when LeBron James decided to return to his hometown team. But the Cavs were down three games to one against a Golden State team that had just set a record with 73 regular-season wins, and LeBron doesn’t exactly have an impeccable playoff resume. Add in the fact that Cleveland had become Losertown, U.S.A., and the remarkable Finals comeback, the first championship for that city since the 1960s and the first one ever for the Cavaliers, had us wondering if the Rapture was next.