The move of the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake City for the 2024-25 season has eliminated the Phoenix area as the Twin Cities' main competition for championship deprivation.
This covers only the championships in the four largest men's pro sports leagues and what were 13 markets to have at least one team in MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL.
Where's soccer? You don't get on the list unless the league you're in is the best in the world, and that's not MLS.
Here in the Twin Cities, we go back to Oct. 27, 1991, when Jack Morris pitched an excellent ballgame and the Twins won a second World Series, beating Atlanta 1-0 in 10 innings
Among the dozen full-service markets standing as we make it successfully through calendar Year 33 — Vikings, Wild, Timberwolves done, Twins sub-mediocre — without a major men's title, only Phoenix had one lonely title to claim.