Sunday saw the Cleveland Cavaliers and Dustin Johnson capture elusive championships. Both the city of Cleveland and Johnson had significant scar tissue built up from past failures and coming so close – as recently as last year.
In fact if you look at some of the most recent champions to be crowned, each came back and won a championship after facing some type of adversity in their quest for a championship the previous year.
2015 World Series Champion Kansas City Royals
The Royals reached the World Series for the first time since 1985 in 2014, held a two games to one series lead over the Giants in the World Series, but couldn’t overcome Madison Bumgarner’s excellence in Game 7, losing 3-2 on their home field.