On Newsstands Friday: ESPN The Magazine’s Anything’s Possible Issue

Say what you will about 2016, but it kept us on our toes. It was the year that proved just about anything can happen if given the chance. It was the year we learned that baseball fans who had suffered for 108 years could win. That an NBA team could fire its coach midseason and still become champ. That an NFL team could dominate after replacing a Pro Bowl quarterback with a rookie. That the winningest team in NBA history could add the game’s top free agent, just because. It was the year college football’s top programs could thrive on inexperience, and an unbeatable fighter could recover from defeat—by disappearing. Who’d have thought all of that could happen in one year? The cover of ESPN The Magazine’s “Anything’s Possible” issue features champions Simone Biles, David Ross, and J.R. Smith.