LeBron James delivered on his life's work Sunday night in Oakland, winning a championship with his teammates and finally bringing a trophy home to Northeast Ohio. In doing so, James and the Cavaliers vanquished the ghosts of all those Cleveland sports stars who authored stunning, heartbreaking, soul-crushing defeats in years gone by. Who would've thought that Cleveland's curse would be lifted right here in the Bay Area, on a basketball court some 2,000 miles from Ohio? Golden State had a seemingly insurmountable 3-1 lead in this series, a deficit no Finals team had ever overcome. [...] . For Warriors fans, Golden State's 93-89 loss in Game 7 ruined what would have been the greatest season in NBA history. The defeat will go down as one of toughest pills the Bay Area has had to swallow. Back in Ohio, this Cavs victory will be met with civic jubilation, bordering on hysteria, the end of a curse many believed would never end. James and his teammates will never have to buy a drink again in that town, immortalized as heroes in a city that came to represent losing ... of the worst kind. [...] it is in sports, where agony and ecstasy are separated by the colors on your jersey. Delayed by...