2016 spoiler alert: Cubs win the World Series!
[...] on a snowy November night, Kris Bryant turns around a 100-mph-plus fastball from Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7, drives it through a blizzard and over the left-field wall at Wrigley.
At the victory parade, Theo Epstein, the Cubs president of baseball operations and former Red Sox wunderkind, announces he's quitting baseball to play rhythm guitar full time for pal Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam.
Jan. 11 — With Alabama leading Oklahoma 38-7 late in the national championship game, Tide coach Nick Saban tells wife Terry to stand in for him at the trophy presentation.
Jan. 14 — At the NCAA's annual convention opening meeting, President Mark Emmert spits out a mouthful of soda halfway through a long sip.
Feb. 5 — A video of Commissioner Roger Goodell yelling "That's how you lower the boom!" while standing over a prone third-grader at a league-sponsored "Football Safety Clinic for Moms" goes viral.
Feb. 26 — After watching a Premier League match earlier that morning, and just hours before FIFA will elect a new president, Donald Trump announces his candidacy.
April 4 — NCAA boss Emmert makes winning Michigan State coach Tom Izzo cool his heels at the trophy presentation after the Spartans beat Big Ten rival Purdue 34-30 for the college basketball championship.
May 1 — 63-year-old president Vladimir Putin, driving a souped-up Yugo, is the shock winner of the F1 Russian Grand Prix in Sochi.
After rebuilding the engine on the side of road midway through the race with nothing but a paper clip and chewing gum, a shirtless Putin tells the roaring grandstand, "Hekct eap nh Daytona (Next year in Daytona)!"
June 5 — Host Jack Nicklaus wins his own golf tournament, the Memorial, by a shot.
July 24 — A robot built by Japanese high school students for the annual HEBOCON competition wins the Tour de France by two full days.
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