"Championship drought" refers to a period of time during which a particular team or group has not won a championship or title in their sport.
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But as sports leagues continue to expand, the probability that some team or another team will suffer an equally
long championship drought is growing right along with them.
Four Super Bowl losses, a 17 - year playoff drought, and a 50 -
year championship drought in Western New York is enough to make anyone feel cursed.
However, because the slaughter was so systematic and thoroughly certain, it's tempting to lament the lack of drama in a city ending its 35 - year
championship drought in such clinical fashion, as if the key to winning a championship is as simple as remembering to turn the industrial buzzsaw on.
The Chicago Cubs snapped a 108 - year
championship drought by winning the 2016 World Series in a thrilling seven games.
The Indians are going to blow a 3 - 1 lead, or the Cubs are going to get as close as possible to ending baseball's
lengthiest championship drought and fail to do so.
After the Cubs scored twice in the top of the 10th, things got tense again in the bottom half of the inning, but a grounder to Kris Bryant ended the most
famous championship drought in sports.
We had overtimes, dramatic endings, blown leads, unforeseen heroes, the end of
epic championship droughts, and some of the biggest comebacks in sports history featuring athletes who will go down as some of the greatest ever.
The Astros ended the third - longest current
MLB championship drought; the Cleveland Indians (69 years) and the Texas Rangers (57 years) continue to wait.
There are a combined 158 seasons of World
Series championship drought among these four teams, with neither the Astros nor Rangers ever even winning the whole thing — the Cubs aren't the only suffering fan base around here, you know.
The Cubs no longer have to deal with an ever -
growing championship drought that spanned over a century: they are the 2016 World Series champions, and it'll take decades before they can be considered losers again.
When Fleck arrived at Western Michigan in late 2012, the first reason he cited for taking the job was a
MAC championship drought since 1988.
Eight Premier League wins in a row have lifted Arsenal's season but a title push is perhaps wishful thinking though the addition of a strong midfielder could certainly aid their attempts to end a lengthy
domestic championship drought.
Not only did the long - suffering team break two
longstanding championship droughts — the Cubbies had gone 71 years without winning their league, and a whopping 108 years without winning a World Series — they did it with the sort of panache that definitively puts to rest all talk of goats and curses.
Just a few months ago, the Cleveland Cavaliers broke their city's 52 -
year championship drought by overcoming a 3 - 1 series deficit against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals.
After snapping their 108 - year
championship drought in 2016, the Cubs looked like a juggernaut, as poised as any team in baseball to sustain a long run of excellence.
And while he didn't promise to end Cleveland's 50 - year
championship drought, James did, in dramatic style, lead the Cavaliers to overturn a 3 - 1 series deficit against the favored Golden State Warriors.
The longer
the championship drought, the more unreasonable we should expect teams to act at the trade deadline.
The four «90s - era Super Bowl losses, the 17 - year playoff drought, and the city's 50 - year
championship drought have primed the pump.
The Astros will win their first - ever championship, or the Dodgers will end their near 30 - year
championship drought, as their last World Series appearance and victory came back when Orel Hersisher, who last pitched in 2000, was the same age Clayton Kershaw is now.
The 2016 World Series was already going to be a series for the ages, because Cleveland and Chicago had been waiting YEARS to break
their championship droughts.
Hope your cheap shot artists doubling as basketball players help you end
a championship drought in your dreary town that's lasted since 1964.
Just like the Royals, fans of the Chiefs are tired of
this championship drought and lack of showing ability in the Playoffs.
i don't see it making
our championship drought any shorter.
The White Sox have
a championship drought — but not the legacy of a curse — to match their Windy City brethren
The Patriots are trying to end a decade - long
championship drought, and a win would give Tom Brady and Bill Belichick their fourth Super Bowl ring, which would put them both in rarefied air.
Fenway Park saw multiple World Series between 1918 and Boston ending
their championship drought, with attempts in 1946, «67, and «86, as well as four close calls in the ALCS in between.
De La Salle coach Frank Allocco, who has coached against Ashmore's teams for years «'' even working the opposing bench in three of the Cougars» NCS finals losses «'' admitted surprise Newark's
championship drought had been so long.
Niki Lauda ended their 11 - year
championship drought but a fiery accident at the Nurburgring cost him a second title.
Rooting your entire life for Cleveland sports teams and enduring a 52 - year
championship drought will do that to a man.