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“Please,” [a longtime Clevelander] says to me, “please, please do not put Cleveland on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.”
…The ghosts are everywhere in Cleveland, of course—it always makes me laugh to hear fans from any other city claim sports heartbreak. What do they know about it? The Indians have not won a World Series since 1948; they have the second-longest frustration streak in baseball, behind the Cubs. The Browns have never reached a Super Bowl, and you might recall they bolted town for a while. The Cavaliers have never won an NBA championship and were once the joke of all sports. No city can touch that heartbreak trilogy.
Too late - LBJ and Cleveland are on the cover.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/WsXlQo1Pcnpt2ukmsgjKRM1Ho1_500.jpg)
Too late - LBJ and Cleveland are on the cover.
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Too late - LBJ and Cleveland are on the cover.
