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So the curtain has closed on another record breaking NBA season; Golden State eclipsed the ’96 Chicago Bulls 72-win season; Steph Curry was the first unanimous league MVP and last but by no means least the Cleveland Cavaliers have won their first NBA championship. Lebron James and his Cavs clinched the city’s 1 st major championship in any sport since the Cleveland Brown’s super bowl win in 1964, in a dramatic game 7 in Oakland last night. The eventual 93-89 win saw the Cavs overcome a 3-1 series deficit, winning 3 games on the bounce against a Warriors team that hadn’t previously lost a game back to back until the conference finals series against the Thunder, one in which they also came from 3-1 down. In triumph Lebron James scooped his 3 rd Finals MVP trophy after carrying his team for long stretches throughout the series. It was clearly an emotional conclusion for the Ohio native Lebron who since his return to his home town has seemed preordained to never clinch a title

It has come to that infamous time of the football calendar where legends are made, and history is written, "Squeaky Bum Time" as Sir Alex Ferguson so aptly described it. In what has been one of the most unpredictable campaigns since the Premier League's inception, we are not going to concentrate on the relegation battle or the title race, instead we will look a little further ahead to the European Championships. The Summer tournament see Europe's top 24 nations compete in what is for me personally the most entertaining cup competition. With the addition of 8 extra teams it will be interesting to see if the new layout will will detract or add to the excitement levels. In previous years all 16 teams turn up to the party actively trying to go all the way. Unlike The World Cup, which is seen as more of a celebration/festival of international football where teams are happy to make up the numbers. Teams are willing to defend for their lives hoping not to be on the wrong