No more Lovable Losers. Forget those curses, too. The Chicago Cubs ended decades of heartache and futility by beating the Cleveland Indians for their first championship since 1908 . And that means for the first time in 108 years, the Cubs can — get this — turn their attention toward a championship repeat. They finally wiped out baseball's longest title drought early Thursday in Cleveland when third baseman Kris Bryant fielded Michael Martinez's grounder off Mike Montgomery and threw to Anthony Rizzo at first, closing out an epic Game 7 of the World Series against the Indians. That set off a celebration more than a century in the making in Chicago. It was still going on...
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