CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There won't be a parade for it, but Cleveland sports won something this year. Several things.
Cleveland won "Most Entertaining Superstar to Carry His Team to The Championship Round," with apologies to the Washington Capitals' Alexander Ovechkin and his Stanley Cup tour.
Cleveland won "Greatest Athlete to Be Sabotaged By A Confused Teammate In the Final Seconds of a Crucial Game."
Cleveland won "Most Accomplished 15-year Veteran to Play Every Regular-Season Game and Practically Every Postseason Minute."
Championships are the ultimate goal; rings, trophies and parades are the ultimate rewards. But the world is filled with stock images of sunsets and mountain tops, highways and sandy beach footprints, all under variations of the saying, "It's not about the destination, it's the journey.