2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3
This caused controversy, as there was confusion as to whether or not the race had actually started, with some teams believing that the official start of the race would not occur until the safety car returned to the pit lane. V8 Supercar regulations state that a race may be started under the safety car in extreme circumstances, such as poor weather, and that the official start of the race is when the safety car returns to the pit lane. However, this is only the case when the warm-up lap has not been completed. As it had been completed in this case, the race was deemed to have started when the safety car led the field away from the grid.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3
The safety car returned to the pits on lap 7, with Coulthard in the lead ahead of Mostert and Van Gisbergen. Whincup was spun by Tander, while Van Gisbergen took the lead from Coulthard before running wide at Turn 9 and handing the lead back. At the same time, Rick Kelly was spun by Mostert. Van Gisbergen regained the lead a couple of laps later, with Courtney following him through into second place. Van Gisbergen then ran wide at Turn 4, giving the lead to Courtney. The two made contact at Turn 9, allowing Lowndes through to the lead.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3
With the rain stopped and the track drying out, drivers began to pit to change back to slick tyres, led by Jason Bright on lap 18. Lowndes continued to lead ahead of Courtney and Mostert. Mostert hit the wall at Turn 8 on lap 28, spinning into the escape road at Turn 9 and retiring from the race. On the same lap, drivers started to change back to wet tyres as rain had started falling again.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3
Courtney led until lap 36, when he aquaplaned going into Turn 8 and hit the wall, damaging the car and forcing him to return to the pits for repairs. The safety car was deployed due to the worsening conditions, with McLaughlin leading Davison and Lowndes. As the conditions continued to deteriorate, and a marshal was affected by lightning, the race was suspended on lap 42, with all cars returning to the pit lane.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3
With the majority of the field having not taken on the required 140 L of fuel, questions were raised on how this would affect the result if the race was not restarted. The rules stated that any car that had not fulfilled the fuel requirement would be given a time penalty following the race, but it was unclear as to whether or not this applied to a shortened race.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3
The race restarted at 5:10 pm with five minutes of its allocated time remaining, and drivers who had not met the fuel requirement, with the exception of Coulthard and Pye, pitted to take on the remaining fuel. This left Percat to take victory, his first solo win in the series, having completed 48 laps, ahead of Coulthard, Pye, Caruso and Tander. However, Coulthard and Pye were immediately given a 30-second time penalty for not complying with the fuel regulations, dropping them to 14th and 15th places respectively.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3
The result left Caruso with the championship lead, 20 points ahead of Tander. Whincup was third, with Van Gisbergen and McLaughin completing the top five.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3, Post-race
The time penalties for Coulthard and Pye were extended to 60 seconds following the race, dropping them to 16th and 17th. The same penalty was also applied to Courtney, Slade and Moffat, but this did not affect the final result. Pye was disappointed by the situation, saying: "It was physically impossible for us to fit it in because of the amount we chose to start with. That race, I don’t know how you can count it. It was a non-event." Holden Racing Team team principal Adrian Burgess questioned the application of the minimum fuel drop rule in a rain-affected race, saying: "Do we really need the fuel drop when we have a race like that? We probably don’t. Just let the guys up the front race hard in wet conditions."


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3, Post-race
Drivers described the race as one of the most chaotic they had ever competed in, with Lowndes describing the race as "bizarre" and McLaughlin saying: "It was the craziest race I’ve ever been a part of." Percat thanked his team Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport for the win, which was the team's first, saying: "This is an unbelievable moment in my career." Tander and Mostert were both penalised 15 championship points for causing incidents in the race. Along with the increased penalties for Pye and Coulthard, this dropped Tander to fifth place in the championship, with Whincup moving into second, 15 points behind Caruso.


2016 Clipsal 500, Report, Race 3, Post-race
Following the controversy over the start of the race, V8 Supercars decided to review race start procedures.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season
The 2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season was the 87th consecutive Primera División season for the senior squad. During the first part of the 2016, Boca Juniors took part in the Primera División, Supercopa Argentina and the Copa Libertadores.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, November
Boca played two friendly games, the first one against Puebla F.C. in Mexico losing 1–0 on November 19 and the second one in Resistencia against a team of Liga Chaqueña de fútbol winning 3–2 on November 28.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, December
In the first days of December the new uniform was presented: it featured a lighter blue tone. Also, Daniel Angelici won the president elections and will be the chairman until 2019. On December 22 Boca were drawn into Group 3 of the 2016 Copa Libertadores with Bolivian champions Bolívar, Colombian champions Deportivo Cali and a team from the First Stage. On December 29 Jonathan Silva was loaned from Sporting CP of Portugal. In the last days of December Luciano Fabián Monzón and José Pedro Fuenzalida left the club.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, January
In the first days of 2016 Leonardo Jara arrived from Estudiantes (LP). Also, Federico Carrizo and Luciano Acosta returned from their loans in Cruz Azul and Estudiantes (LP). Additionally, Nahuel Zárate and Claudio Pérez also returned from their loans in Godoy Cruz and Belgrano, but they will not be taken into consideration by Arruabarrena. Pérez rescinded his contract with Boca. Youth exponents Tomás Pochettino and Franco Cristaldo signed for Defensa y Justicia on an 18-month loan and for Elche CF on a 6-month loan respectively.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, January
Daniel Osvaldo was officially presented again in Boca after playing in FC Porto, he signed an 18-month contract with the club. Juan Cruz Komar signed for Talleres (C) on a six-month loan. On January 12 Jonathan Calleri was sold to Deportivo Maldonado and loaned to São Paulo. On January 16, Boca won 3–0 over Emelec in San Juan, but then lost four friendlies including both against River Plate, leaving a bad picture of summer. This led to two new players arrive at the club: Frank Fabra and Juan Manuel Insaurralde.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, February
In earlier February, Leandro Marín signed for Tigre on a six-month loan and Lisandro Magallán signed for Defensa y Justicia also on a six-month loan. At the start of the tournament Boca played against Temperley in a 0–0 draw and four days later, lost against San Lorenzo 0–4 in the 2015 Supercopa Argentina. Nahuel Zárate was loaned 18 months to Unión and Luciano Acosta to D.C. United until the end of 2016; also, Federico Bravo was loaned to MLS team New York City FC until the end of 2016.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, February
On the second round of Primera División Boca lost against Atlético Tucumán 0–1, playing very bad. After six matches without scoring, Boca managed to win against San Martín (SJ) 1–0 on the third round of Primera División, and against Newell's Old Boys 4–1 in Round 4. On February 24 Boca played the first match of the group stage of Copa Libertadores against Deportivo Cali drawing 0-0. On the round 5 of Primera División Boca lost 0–1 against Racing.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, March
Rodolfo Arruabarrena was sacked and is no longer the head coach of Boca; where he won 2 titles and managed 75 games, winning 47, drawing 13 and losing 15. On March 1, Guillermo Barros Schelotto was announced as the new manager, being his third time as manager in a professional football team. He returns to the club after his step as player between 1997 and 2007 where he won 16 titles. In the first match of the new manager, Boca played against Racing in a 0–0 draw on the second round of Copa Libertadores Group Stage.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, March
On the Round 6, Boca played against River Plate, the Superclásico, the most important match of Argentina; it was a 0–0 draw. Boca achieved another draw in the group stage of Copa Libertadores, 1–1 in La Paz against Bolívar. On March 14 Boca managed to win 2–1 against Unión. On March 20 Boca lost the match 0–2 against Lanús playing very bad.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, April
The first match of April was a 3–0 victory over Atlético de Rafaela. On April 4 the third uniform was presented: it is black with a golden strip. Boca won the first match in Copa Libertadores: 3–1 against Bolívar on the fourth match of the group. On April 10 Boca lost the match 0–2 against Tigre. On April 13 Boca qualified to the final stages of the Copa Libertadores after winning 1–0 in Avellaneda against Racing. In the 11 round Boca won 4–1 against Aldosivi. Boca finished the Group Stage of Copa Libertadores winning 6–2 against Deportivo Cali.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, April
The second Superclasico against River Plate was another 0–0 draw. In the first game of the Round of 16 of Copa Libertadores, Boca achieved a great victory 2–1 in Asunción against Cerro Porteño. In the round 13 of the local Tournament Boca lost 1–0 against Argentinos Juniors, playing with an alternative team.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Season overview, May
In the second leg of the Round of 16 of Copa Libertadores, Boca won 3–1 against Cerro Porteño and advanced to the Quarterfinals. In the round 14 of the local tournament Boca played against Huracán in a 0–0 draw. In the first leg of the Copa Libertadores Quarterfinals played on May 12, Boca tied 1–1 in Montevideo against Nacional. On May 15, Boca played against Estudiantes (LP) and lost 3–1. On May 19 Boca advanced to the Semifinals of the Copa Libertadores after beating Nacional in the Penalty shoot-out. Boca played the last match of the local tournament and the season: it was a 0–0 draw against Defensa y Justicia.


2016 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, Competitions, Overall
1: There is a one-month break between the quarterfinals and semifinals due to the Copa América Centenario held in June, so the Semifinals belong to the next season.


2016 Club Atlético Independiente season
The 2016 season Independiente Participate in the Primera División and the Copa Argentina.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season
The 2016 season is Club Atlético River Plate's 5th consecutive season in the top-flight of Argentine football. The season covers the period from 1 January 2016 to 30 June 2016.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On February 3, Andrés D'Alessandro signed with River Plate on a one-year loan. It was his return after 13 years to the club in which he was formed and had made his first professional appearance in 2000.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On February 15, River Plate introduced its new home kit for the 2016 season.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On February 25, the team made its debut at the 2016 Copa Libertadores with a 4-0 away win against Trujillanos.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On March 10, River Plate introduced the official away kit for the season. The model was inspired on the one that the club wore on the 1985/86 League, commemorating the 30th anniversary of that tournament won by the club.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On April 5, River Plate introduced an alternative orange uniform, commemorating the 30th anniversary of a 2-0 win against Boca Juniors at La Bombonera, when the team did an olympic turn at the rival's stadium after winning the 1985/86 League. In that match, an orange ball was used due to the white confetti in the field, which made the regular white ball difficult to be seen.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On May 4, River Plate was eliminated from the Copa Libertadores on the Round of 16 despite its 1-0 win at home over Independiente del Valle.


2016 Club Atlético River Plate season, Squad Summer
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Clube Atlético Mineiro season
The 2016 season is Clube Atlético Mineiro's 108th in existence and tenth consecutive season in the top-flight of Brazilian football. Along with the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and the Campeonato Mineiro, the club will also compete in the Copa Libertadores, the Copa do Brasil and the Primeira Liga.


2016 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, Background and pre-season
Atlético Mineiro finished as runner-up in the previous season's Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, and qualified to the 2016 Copa Libertadores. Levir Culpi, the head coach for most of 2015, mutually terminated its contract in the end of that year, being replaced by Uruguayan Diego Aguirre, who took charge in January 2016. Atlético took part in Florida Cup, a pre-season competition in the US, which it won.


2016 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Players, Squad information
Players and squad numbers last updated on 26 June 2016.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Competitions, Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Matches
Due to the air accident that occurred with the Chapecoense team, victimizing 71 people, the last match of the Brazilian Championship against Atlético Mineiro was canceled, giving a double victory by 3 x 0.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season
The 2016 season is the 121st year in the club's history, the 105th season in Clube de Regatas do Flamengo's football existence, and their 46th in the Brazilian Série A, having never been relegated from the top division.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season
This season Flamengo returned to the continental scenario after two years (last time playing in the 2014 Copa Libertadores) participating in the 2016 Copa Sudamericana, the last time Flamengo played in this competition was in 2011. The club also competed in the first edition of the Primeira Liga losing in the semi-finals to Atlético Paranaense. At Copa do Brasil the early elimination to Fortaleza in the second round gave the club a spot to play the Copa Sudamericana reaching the round of 16 being eliminated by Chilean club Palestino.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Club, Uniform kits
For the first time in the club's history the football team have four different uniform kits for the season. The traditionals striped home kit and white away kit, and two alternate kits.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Club, First-team squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Rio State League (Campeonato Carioca), Matches
For their last match in the group stage, each team played a team from the other group.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Second stage, Average attendances
Includes all home matches in the 2016 Copa do Brasil.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Série A
The fixtures for the 2016 season were announced on 25 April 2016. Flamengo began their league campaign with a 1–0 win at home against Sport Recife on 14 May 2016, with Éverton scoring the only goal of the match. This was also the only match in the league with coach Muricy Ramalho commanding the team, later in the same week the veteran head coach had heart problems–he was quickly hospitalized and resigned from the job weeks later. After few matches as interim, Zé Ricardo took charge as the new head coach.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Primeira Liga
The 2016 Primeira Liga is the first edition of this competition. Featuring 12 of 14 founding members, Minas Gerais and Santa Catarina leagues provided three entrants, while Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná provide two each.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana
As 12th place in the 2015 Série A, and being one of the best teams eliminated before 2016 Copa do Brasil round of 16, Flamengo will enter the Copa Sudamericana in the second stage. The draw has been made on 12 July 2016 with the first stage taking place on 9 August 2016.


2016 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Club ranking
Flamengo position on the Club World Ranking during the 2016 season, according to clubworldranking.com.


2016 Clube do Remo season
The 2016 season was Remo's 102nd existence. The club participated in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, the Campeonato Paraense, the Copa Verde and the Copa do Brasil.


2016 Clube do Remo season
Remo finished outside of the top four of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C (5th place in the group stage and 11th overall). The club finished in the 4th place of the Campeonato Paraense. In the Copa Verde, Remo was eliminated in the semi-finals by Paysandu 6-3 in the aggregate. In the Copa do Brasil, the club was eliminated in the first round by Vasco da Gama 3-1 in the aggregate.


2016 Clásica de Almería
The 2016 Clásica de Almería was the 31st edition of the Clásica de Almería cycle race and was held on 14 February 2016. The race, originally intended to be 184 km (114 mi) but cut short due to strong winds, started in Almería and finished in Roquetas de Mar. The race was won by Leigh Howard.


2016 Clásica de San Sebastián
The 2016 Clásica de San Sebastián was the 36th edition of the Clásica de San Sebastián road bicycle race. The race took place on 30 July 2016. It was won by Dutch rider Bauke Mollema.


2016 Clásica de San Sebastián, Teams
The 18 UCI World Tour teams are automatically entitled and obliged to start the race. The race organization handed out wildcards to two UCI Professional Continental teams, Caja Rural–Seguros RGA and Cofidis, Solutions Crédits.


2016 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball team
The 2016 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball team represented Coastal Carolina University in the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Chanticleers played their home games at Springs Brooks Stadium, on campus in Conway, South Carolina. Gary Gilmore was in his 21st season as the Chanticleers' coach. They won the 2016 College World Series, and with it the 2016 NCAA Division I National Championship, at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska over Arizona.


2016 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2016 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team
The 2016 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team represented Coastal Carolina University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Joe Moglia and played their home games at Brooks Stadium. They were in their first and only season as an FCS Independent. The Chanticleers joined the FBS Sun Belt Conference in July 2016 as a full but non-football member. The football team will transition to FBS, joining Sun Belt football in 2017 and gaining full FBS membership and bowl eligibility in 2018. They finished the season 10–2.


2016 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team, Ranking movements
* Due to their transition to FBS, they are not eligible to be ranked in the FCS Coaches Poll.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint
The 2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint was a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the weekend of 22 to 24 July 2016. The event was held at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, Queensland, and consisted of one race of 120 kilometres and one race of 200 km in length. It was the eighth event of fourteen in the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 16 and 17 of the season. The event was the 16th running of the Ipswich SuperSprint.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint
The event was dominated by Triple Eight Race Engineering, with its drivers Shane van Gisbergen, Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes scoring a 1–2–3 result in Race 16. Lowndes and Whincup then went on to finish first and second in Race 17, while Van Gisbergen finished twelfth. Chaz Mostert completed the podium in Race 17, having finished fifth in Race 16. Chris Pither took his first career pole position in qualifying for Race 16; it was also the first for his team Super Black Racing. Whincup left the event with a 110-point championship lead over Van Gisbergen, with Mark Winterbottom a further ten points behind in third.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Background
In the week leading up to the event, Aaren Russell and his sponsor Plus Fitness split from Erebus Motorsport, which had been preparing Russell's car during the 2016 season. The split was the result of a dispute over payments between the team and the Russell family. Craig Baird, the endurance co-driver for Erebus Motorsport's other car, was selected to replace Russell for the event, with sponsorship from Hungry Jack's.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Background
DJR Team Penske continued its sponsor rotation system, running a Penske Truck Rental livery on both of its cars. Nissan Motorsport ran a new livery on Michael Caruso's car, promoting the GT Academy program.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Background
Jamie Whincup entered the event as the championship lead, 53 points ahead of his teammate Shane van Gisbergen, with defending series champion Mark Winterbottom in third.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Practice
A 30-minute practice session was held on Friday afternoon for additional drivers, consisting mostly of Enduro Cup co-drivers. The fastest time was set by Jack Le Brocq, driving Cameron Waters' car. James Golding was second fastest ahead of Tony D'Alberto. The cars of Whincup, Van Gisbergen and Chris Pither did not participate in the session, with their respective co-drivers, Paul Dumbrell, Alexandre Prémat and Richie Stanaway, absent from the event.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Practice
The first session for regular drivers was held immediately after the additional drivers session and was one hour in length. Nissan Motorsport performed strongly, with Caruso setting the fastest lap time and Todd Kelly being third fastest. The pair were split by Scott Pye, with Brad Jones Racing teammates Jason Bright and Tim Slade completing the top five. A second one-hour session was held later on Friday afternoon, with Fabian Coulthard going quickest ahead of Craig Lowndes, Chaz Mostert, Rick Kelly and Pither.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Practice
A 15-minute session was held on Saturday morning. It was marred by a major accident involving Pye, who suffered a brake failure going into Turn 3. His car left the circuit at high speed and went head-on into a tyre barrier before coming to rest on top of it. Pye was not injured, but his car sustained significant front-end damage. Pye later described the incident: "I hit the brake pedal and it was solid and then clicked to the floor. That’s a horrible feeling when that happens...


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Practice
It came back up and I went for it again and I think it was only front brakes. It locked both front wheels and went straight on." The session was red flagged with just over one minute remaining and did not restart. Whincup had set the fastest time prior to Pye's crash, with Winterbottom second fastest ahead of Pither.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Qualifying – Race 16
Qualifying for Race 16 was a single 15-minute session held on Saturday afternoon. Only 25 cars took part, with Pye's car still being repaired after his Practice 3 crash. Pither took a surprise pole position, the first in the series for both himself and his team Super Black Racing. Mostert was second fastest ahead of the three Triple Eight Race Engineering cars of Whincup, Lowndes and Van Gisbergen.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 16
Race 16 took place on Saturday afternoon, with the regulations requiring each car to make at least one pit stop to change all four tyres. The race start was delayed when Waters' car stopped on the warm-up lap with a driveline problem. Waters later joined the race but retired after completing four laps.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 16
Pither maintained the lead at the start but was challenged by Mostert at Turn 2. Pither ran wide and pushed Mostert off the circuit, giving Whincup the chance to take second place at Turn 3. Whincup then took the lead from Pither at Turn 4, while Lowndes was also able to move past both Pither and Mostert. On lap 4, Coulthard made contact with Caruso while battling for seventh place, pushing him off the circuit. Caruso lost a number of positions and Coulthard was forced to readdress by dropping back to behind Caruso. Lowndes made his pit stop on lap 7 with the intention of using fresh tyres to jump Whincup, but Whincup pitted one lap later and held the position over his teammate.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 16
The stops for Whincup and Lowndes left Van Gisbergen in the lead ahead of Winterbottom and Mostert, who each ran a long first stint in order to have fresher tyres at the end of the race. Van Gisbergen and Winterbottom stopped on lap 17, while Mostert stayed out until lap 23. After all drivers had completed their pit stop, Whincup led from Lowndes, Van Gisbergen, Winterbottom and Mostert, with Whincup saving fuel and coming under pressure from Lowndes.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 16
Van Gisbergen used his younger tyres to quickly close the gap to his two teammates and passed Lowndes on lap 35 before taking the lead on lap 37. Whincup was able to hold on to second place ahead of Lowndes, who in turn was able to stay ahead of Winterbottom and Mostert. Slade finished sixth ahead of Will Davison and Rick Kelly, with James Moffat and Coulthard completing the top ten. Pither finished eleventh after losing multiple positions in the opening laps. Whincup's championship lead over Van Gisbergen was reduced from 53 to 41 points, while Winterbottom fell back to be 93 points off the lead.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 16, Post-race
Nick Percat was disqualified from the results after it was found that his front bumper was underweight. As a result, all drivers who finished behind him moved up one place.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Qualifying – Race 17
Qualifying for Race 17 was held on Sunday morning and consisted of a single 20-minute session. Whincup took his second pole position of the season ahead of teammate Lowndes, who saved a set of tyres for the race by not doing a third run in the session. Mostert was third fastest ahead of Van Gisbergen, Winterbottom and Pye. Winterbottom was disappointed with the session after being held up by Kurt Kostecki, who was in only his second Supercars event as a replacement for the injured Lee Holdsworth, on his final run. With his Prodrive Racing Australia teammate Waters also affected by Kostecki, team principal Tim Edwards questioned the licensing system used in the series, saying: "We should have better licensing that people of that level of experience can’t go and do that. It’s bloody disappointing."


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 17
Race 17 was held on Sunday afternoon and the race regulations required each car to take on at least 120 litres of fuel during the race. Lowndes made the best start and moved into the lead ahead of Whincup and Van Gisbergen, with Mostert and Winterbottom completing the top five. Pye's difficult weekend continued when he was spun by James Courtney on lap 2; Courtney received a drive-through penalty for his role in the incident. The leaders began making their first pit stops on lap 12, with Winterbottom, Caruso and Scott McLaughlin pitting from fifth, sixth and eighth place respectively.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 17
Whincup stopped on lap 14, followed by Lowndes on lap 16 and Van Gisbergen on lap 17, while Mostert stayed out until lap 19. Lowndes maintained his lead over Whincup through the pit stops, while Winterbottom moved up to third place. Both Whincup and Van Gisbergen started to struggle with the balance of their cars and Whincup ran wide at the final corner on lap 28, losing places to Winterbottom and Caruso.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 17
The second round of pit stops began when Waters pitted on lap 28, with the leaders beginning to stop on lap 33. Mostert again ran longer than the other front-runners, stopping on lap 42, giving him fresher tyres for the final stint. After all drivers had completed their second pit stop, Lowndes retained the lead ahead of Whincup, Winterbottom, Caruso and Mostert. Whincup and Winterbottom were both struggling for pace and Winterbottom lost third place to Caruso on lap 51. Mostert used his younger tyres to pass Winterbottom on lap 54 and Caruso on lap 60.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 17
Courtney retired from the race on  lap 61 after sustaining suspension damage in an incident with Rick Kelly and Van Gisbergen on the previous lap. Mostert was unable to catch Whincup in the closing laps, with the pair finishing third and second respectively behind Lowndes. Caruso finished fourth ahead of Winterbottom and McLaughlin. After struggling during the race, Van Gisbergen finished twelfth, resulting in an extended championship lead of 110 points for Whincup.


2016 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint, Report, Race 17, Post-race
Waters was penalised ten championship points for making contact with Rick Kelly at the final corner.


2016 Coates Hire Sydney 500
The 2016 Coates Hire Sydney 500 was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship held on the weekend of 2 to 4 December 2016. The event was held at the Homebush Street Circuit in Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales, and consisted of two races of 250 kilometres in length. It was the final round of the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship, and the final time that the venue hosted a Supercar race, being replaced by the Newcastle Street Circuit from 2017 onwards.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge
The 2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge was a motor racing event for V8 Supercars, held on the weekend of 17 to 20 March 2016. The event was held at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, and consisted of one race of 60 kilometres in length and three races of 65 km in length. It was a non-championship event, contested by teams taking part in the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship, and was held in support of the 2016 Australian Grand Prix. The event was the 31st running of the V8 Supercars Challenge.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge
The event was won by Shane van Gisbergen, who took victory in three of the four races across the weekend. Craig Lowndes and Fabian Coulthard completed the podium. The pole sitter, Jamie Whincup, won the other race and finished sixth overall after retiring from the final race.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Background
Chris Pither contested the event in one of Prodrive Racing Australia's Dunlop Series cars, with his car from the Clipsal 500 Adelaide not being repaired in time following an accident in the second race there.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Background
Rolling starts began being used at the event in 2014, with the pole sitter being required to maintain a certain speed before accelerating within a designated zone on the pit straight, at which point the race would start and all other drivers could also accelerate. Following a multi-car crash at the start of the final race of the 2015 event, as well as comments from drivers, the procedure for the start of the race was changed prior to the first race. The red lights above the start line were used to indicate the start of the race, with control taken away from the pole sitter.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Qualifying
A single 30-minute qualifying session was held on Thursday afternoon to set the grid for the first race. Jamie Whincup set a time of 1:56.5634 to take pole position, two one-hundredths of a second faster than Mark Winterbottom. Fabian Coulthard and Chaz Mostert were also with one-tenth of a second of Whincup's time.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 1
The first race of the weekend took place on Friday afternoon and was scheduled to be 12 laps and 65 km in length. However, due to time constraints, it was shortened to 11 laps. Whincup maintained the lead at the start, while his teammate Shane van Gisbergen moved up to second place having started in fifth. Jason Bright was spun by Scott Pye at the first corner and his car suffered damage to the front spoiler.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 1
The spoiler caught under the front wheel going into Turn 3 and Bright went off the road before stopping his car off the circuit between Turns 3 and 4. Coulthard made a move up the inside of Winterbottom at Turn 11, but the pair made contact and Winterbottom spun and dropped to the back of the field.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 1
At the end of the first lap, Todd Kelly's car had an engine problem and he stopped at the pit lane exit. The safety car was deployed to allow Kelly's car to be collected. The race was restarted on lap 5 and Van Gisbergen took the lead from Whincup at Turn 14 after the latter had locked a front brake going into Turn 13. Coulthard also tried to pass Whincup but was unable to do so. Mostert passed Coulthard for third place on lap 9. Van Gisbergen went on to take victory, half a second ahead of Whincup, with Mostert, Coulthard and Pye completing the top five.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 2
The second race took place on Friday evening, with the starting grid based on the finishing order of the first race. Van Gisbergen and Whincup led the field away from the front row of the grid ahead of Mostert and Coulthard. Contact between David Reynolds, Tim Blanchard and Andre Heimgartner at the first corner saw Heimgartner spin. Blanchard made a pit stop at the end of the first lap to repair damage sustained in the collision. Pye locked a brake and went off at Turn 1 on lap 2, dropping to 17th place. James Moffat retired from the race after damaging a steering arm on the same lap.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 2
Light rain began to fall on lap 5 and Mostert went off the circuit at the first corner on lap 6, letting both Lowndes and Coulthard past. Lowndes began closing the gap to Whincup, while Holden Racing Team drivers Garth Tander and James Courtney were involved in a close battle for sixth place. Heimgartner retired from the race on lap 10 after going off the circuit with a flat tyre. Lowndes passed Whincup on the final lap to take second place behind Van Gisbergen, with Whincup completing a 1-2-3 result for Triple Eight Race Engineering. Coulthard held off Mostert for fourth place ahead of Tander and Courtney. Winterbottom, after starting in 21st place, finished twelfth.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 3
The third race was held on Saturday afternoon, with the starting grid based on the finishing order of the second race. Todd Kelly's car had another engine problem on the warm-up lap, the third time in total for the weekend, and he did not start the race. Van Gisbergen led Lowndes and Whincup away from the start while Tander moved up to fourth place. Whincup took second when Lowndes made contact with the rear of Van Gisbergen at Turn 3. An incident between Bright, Moffat and Dale Wood at the end of the first lap saw Bright retire from the race with damage, while Moffat also pitted for repairs. Whincup took the lead from Van Gisbergen at the start of lap 2.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 3
Will Davison was spun by Cameron Waters on lap 4, the latter given a drive-through penalty for his part in the incident. McLaughlin retired from the race on lap 6, running off the track with low oil pressure while in seventh place. Whincup pulled out a lead while Van Gisbergen and Lowndes battled in the closing stages, going on to win by 6.6 seconds. Tander finished fourth ahead of Coulthard and Mostert.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 3, Post-race
Whincup was fined A$3,000 for performing a burnout in celebration of his race victory, mimicking the penalty that Winterbottom had received for the same indiscretion at the 2015 Wilson Security Sandown 500. Wood was given a five-place grid penalty for Race 4 after he was found guilty of careless driving in the incident with Bright.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 4
The fourth and final race was held on Sunday afternoon, with the starting grid based on the total points scored across the first three races. Van Gisbergen started from pole position ahead of Whincup, Lowndes, Coulthard and Mostert. Coulthard moved into second place at the first corner, while Reynolds and Pither made contact, forcing the latter off the circuit. Reynolds retired at the end of the first lap due to damage sustained in the incident. Whincup retired from the race on lap 3 with a driveline problem.


2016 Coates Hire V8 Supercars Challenge, Report, Race 4
Coulthard applied pressure to Van Gisbergen early in the race, but Van Gisbergen started to pull away towards the end of the race and took his third win of the weekend. Coulthard finished second ahead of Lowndes, while Courtney passed Caruso for fourth place on the final lap. With three race wins and a second place, Van Gisbergen secured the overall weekend victory.


2016 Coca-Cola 600
The 2016 Coca-Cola 600, the 57th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on May 29, 2016 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.42 km) asphalt speedway, it was the thirteenth race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. The race had nine lead changes among four different drivers and four cautions for 19 laps.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Report, Background
The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is located in Concord, North Carolina. The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track that will be utilized for the race, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Entry list
The initial entry list for the race was released on May 23, 2016 at 8:54 am ET with forty cars.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, First practice
Kurt Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.002 and a speed of 192.843 mph (310.351 km/h).


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Qualifying
Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.077 and a speed of 192.328 mph (309.522 km/h). He said after qualifying that he "liked what I felt last year and I’ve been thinking about this race a lot since then. We had a really good car that day and thought we were going to go to victory lane and got beat on fuel mileage.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Qualifying
Just excited for all my guys and for Bass Pro Shops, Tracker Boats, Furniture Row, Denver Mattress and everybody that works so hard on this deal – Toyota Racing, TRD – just awesome race cars. We had to work hard today, we were not that good in practice and made a lot of changes throughout this qualifying session. Hats off to my guys for some really good work and lucky to be with this group for sure.”


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Qualifying
Joey Logano, who qualified second, said he "got a little bit tight landing in (Turn) 1 and then a little bit free off (the corner). It wasn't much. And then (Turns) 3 and 4, I actually thought was a pretty good corner. So I would say most of it was down in 1 and 2 – probably at landing and through the center is where I lost most of my momentum. It's not much. Half-a-tenth of a second doesn't take long."


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Qualifying
“Being in the top four in every session there was really big for us,” Ricky Stenhouse Jr. said after qualifying third. “We’ve been fast at times in qualifying, but never put every round together and stayed that consistent, so I’m really proud of the team for the adjustments that they made throughout the qualifying session there. We just missed it a little bit, but we know where to go work on it to get it better. Now our job is to get it better on Saturday for a long 600 miles and make sure that we’ve got some adjustability in it.”


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice
Kurt Busch continued to be quickest into the second practice session with a time of 28.272 and a speed of 191.002 mph (307.388 km/h).


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice
Martin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.972 and a speed of 186.387 mph (299.961 km/h).


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Start
Under cloudy North Carolina skies, Martin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 6:12 p.m. The first caution of the race flew on lap 26. This was a scheduled competition caution due to overnight rain. Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott were tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted at lap 31. Truex hit pit road on lap 78 and handed the lead to Jimmie Johnson. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled back to Truex.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Second quarter
The second caution of the race flew on lap 114 for a single-car spin in turn 2. Rounding the turn, Brian Scott got loose and spun down the track.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 121. David Ragan was tagged for a restart violation and was forced to serve a pass-through penalty. Truex pitted from the lead on lap 165 and handed the lead to Johnson. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Joey Logano. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled back to Truex. Ragan was tagged for an uncontrolled tire and was forced to serve a pass-through penalty.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
Reed Sorenson retired from the race due to clutch issues and finished 40th. The third caution of the race flew on lap 204 for a single-car wreck in turn 4. Rounding the turn, Jeffrey Earnhardt got loose and slammed the wall.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 210. During the green flag cycle of stops on lap 266, Logano was tagged for his crew being over the wall too soon and was forced to serve a pass-through penalty. Logano said after the race that his team, and others, are "trying to make pit stops so fast and you’re gonna push everything to the edge. I guess we jumped off the wall a little bit too soon. I haven’t seen it, but unfortunately, that kind of made us make a green flag pit stop, which is really hard to overcome.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
Overall, we were able to get our lap back by racing up there, which was kind of cool. We didn’t have to take a lucky dog or any of that. We actually raced back to the lead lap, but we lost the balance a little bit on the last run and I couldn’t make much time once we got going."


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
Truex pitted on lap 299 and handed the lead to Paul Menard. He pitted on lap 302 and the lead cycled back to Truex. Carl Edwards was tagged for speeding and was forced to serve a pass-through penalty. He was tagged for speeding again while serving the penalty and was forced to serve a stop and go penalty.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
With 85 laps to go, Truex began running into lapped traffic. This allowed Johnson to pull up to within three-tenths of a second of him. He was unable to get past Truex and lost second to Kevin Harvick. Debris on the backstretch brought out the fourth caution of the race with 61 laps to go, within the fuel window allowing the entire field to reach the scheduled distance on one more full tank of fuel. In the ensuing caution, Aric Almirola was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 56 laps to go. Johnson briefly took the lead from Truex after the restart, but Truex quickly reclaimed the lead and then led the remainder of the race, ultimately leading a race-record 392 of the 400 laps en route to the victory. Truex's average speed (160.655 miles per hour) was also an all-time record for the race and the race was also the shortest Coca-Cola/World 600 in the history of the event at just 3 hours, 44 minutes, and 8 seconds.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Truex said afterwards that he was "proud of my team, everybody that made this possible, that believed in me, gave me this opportunity. Cole Pearn (crew chief), Jazzy (team engineer Jeff Curtis), my guys are something special. I want to thank all of them. This is a big day. Got the troops on the cars, this is a special weekend. It’s really neat to bring that name home to Victory Lane. Just a lot of emotion right now. Not really sure it’s sunk in yet. Just an amazing day, an amazing weekend for all of us. It’s a weekend you dream about."


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
After a runner-up finish, Harvick said he "ran 10th all day. So I’m just really, really happy. When you’re able to take a 10th-place car – at best – and drive it 450 miles and then make huge gains (the rest of the way). At the end of the race we obviously didn’t have the best car. Those guys (Truex’s Furniture Row Racing team) have had some fast cars this year and tonight definitely had the dominant car. Early on we were just really bad. Tight coming into corners and loose coming out. Nothing seemed to be working and then were just stepped back and swung for the fences. We were able to pass with our car once we got our handling together. The cars were already sliding around a fair amount all day.”


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Johnson said after finishing third that he was "so proud of the effort we put in tonight. This is the best car I’ve had in Charlotte for a long time. It just shows you how good that No. 78 was and the No. 4 got a little bit better than us at the end. I thought we had a chance at them a few times, a couple of times on the long run we would get close. A couple times on the restarts we would get close, but all-in-all a very strong performance for this Lowe’s Chevrolet.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Very proud of the team work and the support that we have from all the employees at Lowe’s. Just came up a little short today.” He also said that Truex "was very impressive. I’m happy for Martin and the team, those guys have worked awful hard to get where they’re at.”


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Media, Television
Fox Sports televised the race in the United States for the sixteenth consecutive year. Mike Joy was the lap-by-lap announcer, while three-time Coca-Cola 600 winner, Jeff Gordon and five-time race winner Darrell Waltrip were the color commentators. Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane during the race.


2016 Coca-Cola 600, Media, Radio
Radio coverage of the race was broadcast by the Performance Racing Network (PRN), and was simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini called the race in the booth when the field raced through the quad-oval. Rob Albright reported the race from a billboard in turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2 and halfway down the backstretch. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through the other half of the backstretch and through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Steve Richards were the pit reporters during the broadcast.


2016 Codasur South American Rally Championship
The 2016 Codasur South American Rally Championship is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA and run by the Confederacion Deportiva Automovilismo Sudamericana (Codasur). The championship was contested over five events held in five South American countries from April to November.


2016 Codasur South American Rally Championship
The championship was won for the fourth time by Paraguayan driver Gustavo Saba. Saba won the final three rallies to win the championship on the final day of the rally overcoming countryman Diego Domínguez who had led the championship all season after winning the first two rallies. Uruguayan driver Rodrigo Zeballos won a close competition for third in the championship


2016 Codasur South American Rally Championship, Event calendar and results
The 2016 Codasur South American Rally Championship was as follows:


2016 Codasur South American Rally Championship, Championship standings
The 2016 Codasur South American Rally Championship points were as follows:


2016 Coimbatore riots
The 2016 Coimbatore riots refers to the riots that took place in Coimbatore from September 22 to September 24, 2016, by members of the Hindu Munnani after the murder of the outfit's district spokesperson, C Sasikumar.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Background
Sasikumar was attacked when he was returning to his home in his motor-cycle when unidentified men chased him in their motor-cycles and assaulted him with Sickles on September 22, 2016 in Subramaniampalayam, a place in the outskirts of the city. Despite his injuries he managed to escape and later died in a private hospital.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Background
Meanwhile, more than 500 members of the Hindu Munnani gathered near the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital(CMCH) where his body was taken for autopsy. The Hindu Munnani state president who also warned of "another Gujarat" in Tamil Nadu, called for a state-wide bandh in the following day.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Riots
The violence reportedly started within hours of his murder on September 22 when three mosques were attacked with petrol bombs.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Riots
During the funeral procession of Sasikumar from CMCH to Subramaniampalayam, mobs mostly of Hindu munnani members, started destroying the window panes of several shops and attacked several houses and commercial establishments mostly of Muslims, along their way. The members also pelted stones at the buses and shops and attacked several places of worship creating chaos. When the procession reached the Thudiyalur, where Sasikumar lived, the mob turned their rage at the police and started pelting stones at the police which injured 12 policemen and also burned a Police jeep. Media persons covering the funeral procession were also attacked and three police officers also sustained burn injuries.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Riots
The mob also set several cars on fire and some members set fire and ransacked several Shops. 1 Police jeep and an auto-rickshaw were burned down and at least 30 government buses were damaged by the rioters. Eyewitness claimed that the mob went on a looting spree even in-front of the watching police.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Riots
A Muslim man's mobile phone shop at Tutiyalur was looted and ransacked allegedly by members of Hindutva outfits after they broke into the shop at the night of September 24. The CCTV video of the looting quickly went viral on social media. The Muslim Community alleged that Muslim businesses were mostly targeted by the rioters.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Riots
Tensions also prevailed in Tiruppur and most of the Shops were closed down in both the cities during the rampage. Some schools were also closed. Six special police teams have been formed to catch the rioters. Meanwhile, Muslim organizations asked the collector for an intervention by district administration to end the violence by HIndutva outfits.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Damages
A joint petition by the Forum for Coimbatore People's Unity including several advocate's and political parties to the district collector in January 2019, reported that the rioters of the Hindu Munnani had damaged 10 private vehicles, 34 government buses, 39 shops belonging to Muslims, 15 shops belonging to the Hindus and 6 Police Vehicles. The report estimated the damages to about 5 crores. The petition asked the district administration to collect 5 crores from Hindu Munnani and also accused the Hindu Munnani of trying to get political gains from the riots.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Arrests
The Coimbatore police reported that it had arrested more than 650 people involved in the unrest on September 26. Of them 129 remained in custody for allegedly planning violence and involvement in violence and the remaining were given bail. The police also warned that the number would go up.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Arrests
In October 2016, Two members of the Bharatiya Janata Party were arrested for their involvement in the riots under the Goondas Act and were sent to the Vellore Central Prison.


2016 Coimbatore riots, Controversy
Director general of police, Ramesh. K Ramanujam said that there is an issue in the investigation for the case, because not every murder was communal in nature and a series of murders in the state for the past few years have been given communal colour by Hindutva groups in an attempt to spread their ideologies. A senior police officer said that some members of Hindutva outfits have known criminal records and when caught they try to use their religion to escape from the law.


2016 Coke Zero 400
The 2016 Coke Zero 400 powered by Cola-Cola was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held on July 2, 2016 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 161 laps - extended from 160 laps due to overtime,  on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) superspeedway, it was the 17th race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.


2016 Coke Zero 400
The race had 26 lead changes among different drivers and five cautions for 28 laps.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background
The race was held at Daytona International Speedway, a race track located in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, the track is the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, USCC, SCCA, and Motocross. It features multiple layouts including the primary 2.5 miles (4.0 km) high speed tri-oval, a 3.56 miles (5.73 km) sports car course, a 2.95 miles (4.75 km) motorcycle course, and a .25 miles (0.40 km) karting and motorcycle flat-track. The track's 180-acre (73 ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12 ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background
The track was built in 1959 by NASCAR founder William "Bill" France, Sr. to host racing held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course. His banked design permitted higher speeds and gave fans a better view of the cars. Lights were installed around the track in 1998 and today, it is the third-largest single lit outdoor sports facility. The speedway has been renovated three times, with the infield renovated in 2004 and the track repaved twice — in 1978 and in 2010.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background
On January 22, 2013, the track unveiled artist depictions of a renovated speedway. On July 5 of that year, ground was broken for a project that would remove the backstretch seating and completely redevelop the frontstretch seating. The renovation to the speedway is being worked on by Rossetti Architects. The project, named "Daytona Rising", was completed in January 2016, and it costed US $400 million, placing emphasis on improving fan experience with five expanded and redesigned fan entrances (called "injectors") as well as wider and more comfortable seating with more restrooms and concession stands. After the renovations, the track's grandstands include 101,000 permanent seats with the ability to increase permanent seating to 125,000. The project was completed before the start of Speedweeks 2016.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Entry list
The preliminary entry list for the race included forty-one cars and was released on June 3, 2016 at 2:31 pm ET.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Final practice
Brian Scott was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 45.147 and a speed of 199.349 mph (320.821 km/h). With nine minutes remaining in the session, Kyle Busch suffered a cut in his right-rear tire, got loose, turned up the track and slammed the wall head-on in turn 1. After being released from the infield care center, he said the crash "was a huge impact. I thank NASCAR for all their advancements in the safety aspects of the car in the things that drivers wear and the SAFER Barriers as well today.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Final practice
That could have been a heck of a lot uglier than what it was. I'm pretty confident in Joe Gibbs Racing and their ability to build good race cars. I'm not very confident in Goodyear in giving us good tires to go out there and race on." He later clarified his statement on Goodyear saying from his "vantage point, we’ve had a lot of tire issues this year. That’s probably, I don’t know, four or five or six tires that we’ve blown this year. That’s what the most frustrating part is.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Final practice
We also did the tire test at Kentucky and didn’t necessarily have the best of results I felt like from my vantage point with what we’ve got to do for next week. That’s where the frustration probably stemmed from and came from. Goodyear probably didn’t deserve what they got from me earlier today.’’ The damage forced him to switch to his backup car.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Qualifying
Greg Biffle scored the pole for the race with a time of 46.643 and a speed of 192.955 mph (310.531 km/h). He said the pole "feels good for our team. Not only did we win the pole but the car is in race trim right now, so it shows you how fast it’ll be Saturday night and that's one thing we're really happy about." He added that his team has "been working really, really hard. Just really excited for the whole team. I'm just happy to be driving it.”


2016 Coke Zero 400, Qualifying
Carl Edwards, who qualified second, said he's "got a fast race car" and that he's "happy for Greg and the Roush group though. It's good to see them succeed and congratulations on the pole." He added that he "would have loved to be on the pole, but starting up front will be great and hopefully we can stay up front. I need to get a win in that column, we have a big zero there from my career here at Daytona so I would like to get a win.”


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half
Under clear Florida evening skies, Greg Biffle led the field to the green flag at 8:14. The honor of leading the first lap, however, went to Carl Edwards. Brad Keselowski passed Edwards on the outside line to take the lead on the ninth lap. Riding along, the field raced two and three wide through the entire pack. The first caution of the race flew on lap 21 for a stalled car on the frontstretch. The car was the No. 38 of Landon Cassill and he was reporting engine failure.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half
Because this came out the same lap as a scheduled competition caution, the teams were allowed to refuel. David Ragan opted to stay out when the leaders pitted and assumed the lead. He pitted the next time through and Keselowski cycled back to the lead. Jimmie Johnson was tagged for too many crew members over the wall and Casey Mears was tagged for his crew being over the wall too soon. Both restarted the race from the tail end of the field.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half
The race restarted on lap 26. Biffle drag-raced Keselowski to the start/finish line to take the lead on lap 30. Keselowski took it back on lap 31. The field settled into a single-file train running the high side of the track. That only lasted a few laps, however, as the bottom line – led by Joey Logano – began to close in on Keselowski. A number of cars, including race leader Keselowski, began pitting on lap 65. This handed the lead to Denny Hamlin, who pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Mears.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half
He pitted on lap 68 and Kevin Harvick assumed the lead. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Clint Bowyer. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled to Kyle Busch. Danica Patrick was tagged for driving through too many pit boxes on pit road and was forced to serve a pass through penalty.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
Denny Hamlin passed teammate Busch on the top and took the lead on lap 77. Keselowski passed to his outside to take back the lead on lap 83. The second caution of the race flew on lap 90 for a multi-car wreck in turn 1. It started when Jamie McMurray bounced off Kyle Larson, got hooked into the wall by Johnson and collected up to 22 cars. McMurray said he didn't "know what happened. I think somebody got into my left rear, and I don't know if I cut a tire down.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
After I felt that happen, I just didn't have any control. ... It's unfortunate. It's part of [restrictor] plate racing." Johnson said that there was "light contact" and that "the momentum carried me into the back of [McMurray] and turned him sideways. It was a matter of inches, and once it started, it collected everybody." "Just a bunch of cars crashing -- pretty much that was it," said Matt Kenseth. "I was just trying to make my way back toward the front a little bit there. We had a bad pit-stop exchange and came out way, way behind everybody.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
Carl was up toward the front and we were running with him before the pit stop. I probably should have just hung in the back, hindsight, but who knows when they're going to wreck, you never know if they're going to wreck. Just trying to get back toward the front and there was a wreck somewhere a few rows up in front of me and just nowhere really to go."


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
Michael Annett, Biffle, Bowyer, Chris Buescher, Matt DiBenedetto, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chase Elliott, David Gilliland, Harvick, Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Kenseth, Larson, McMurray, Paul Menard, Ryan Newman, Patrick, Ragan, Regan Smith, Martin Truex Jr. and Ryan Blaney all were involved. Buescher would go on to finish 40th. Logano exited pit road first.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
The race restarted on lap 102. A power move to the outside by Keselowski got him by his teammate for the lead at lap 106. Debris brought out the third caution of the race with 30 laps to go. Busch exited pit road first.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
The race restarted with 26 laps to go. After racing side-by-side for five laps, Keselowski powered by him on the outside on the backstretch to take back the lead with 21 laps to go. Busch drove underneath him exiting turn 4 to retake the lead with 19 laps to go. Keselowski drove underneath him in turn 2 to retake the lead with 16 laps to go. The fourth caution of the race flew with 12 laps to go for a single-car wreck in turn 1 involving Tony Stewart.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
“Casey Mears was watching and gave me plenty of room to get up there,” Stewart said. “So I figured it was better if I got to the top. Then three or four laps later I got loose into (Turn) 1, so I hadn't been loose all day there. When I did, I over-corrected and got into the fence.”


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
The race restarted with six laps to go. The fifth caution of the race flew with five laps to go after Edwards was turned into the wall by Ryan Blaney and collected Bobby Labonte.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half
The race restarted with two laps to go. Keselowski held off the Busch brothers and teammate Logano to score the victory just as Kurt Busch got turned into the tri-oval grass by Logano.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Keselowski said in victory lane his "guys were doing a heck of a job; Kyle and Kurt (Busch) worked together really well. My teammate, Joey Logano, was a huge part of this. Joey has won here and he's really a pro -- especially on that restart -- and he gave me the push I needed to get to the front. Here we are, it's Daytona in victory lane. I don't care if it's the 500, it's Daytona, and this is huge. I love this place."


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Kyle Busch, who drove his backup car to a runner-up finish, said this race "was really close to Talladega. We finished second at Talladega. Just there at the end of the race, the 2 car was really, really fast. Really, really strong. It's really hard to get by him. I tried just about everything. The only thing I didn't quite have was a big enough push one time to just try to make a move. He was really good at making that thing pretty wide.”


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
"To have a top-three finish today, it's really a great day for us and a great day for Roush Fenway Racing and Ford," Bayne said after finishing third. "For our organization to be on the pole this weekend, to have three cars in the top eight, two in the top-five, I think that's kind of a landmark for us as an organization with the struggles we've had to get all three teams running strong on a weekend like this."


2016 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Logano, who finished fourth, said of his last lap incident with Kurt Busch that he hated "that I got into Kurt there at the end racing to the line. I had a run to turn up underneath him, and when you do that, the cars get free and then I was there and he tried to catch it and I was there again. It is a product of this racing, but I hate that it happened." Busch said after the race that he thought "that he (Logano) made an aggressive mistake; you can't go from fifth to first," Busch said. "There's just no shot at it. It's a shame that we ended up spun around and wrecked. We could have come out of here with the points lead."


2016 Coke Zero 400, Media, Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.


2016 Coke Zero 400, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election
Elections to Colchester Borough Council took place on 5 May 2016. Colchester Borough Council normally elects one third of its councillors each year, however, due to boundary changes, the whole council is up for election.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election
Prior to this election, the cabinet (8 seats) was held by a coalition including the Liberal Democrats (5 seats), the Labour Party (2 seats) and a Highwoods & Stanway Independent (1 seat). Paul Smith (Liberal Democrat), a councillor from St. John's ward, was elected Leader of the Council by 32 to 28 votes.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election
Each voter had three available votes instead of the usual one vote.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, By-Elections between 2015 and 2016
In June 2015, in accordance with the Local Government Act 1972, Conservative councillor Mark Cable "ceased to be a member of the council" after failing to attend a council meeting since December 2014 (6 months). A by-election was called and the ward was subsequently held by the Conservatives.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Background
Following the 2015 election the Liberal Democrat-Labour-Independent coalition maintained control of the Council, although with a much reduced majority (14 to 4). The Liberal Democrats suffered heavy losses in North and West Colchester with 4 councillors being unseated, all by the Conservative Party. The Conservatives subsequently became the largest party on the Council but short of a majority by 4 councillors. Although failing to win additional seats, the Labour Party made moderate gains in vote share across the Borough.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Background
Following a promising performance at the 2014 election, the UK Independence Party failed to build on their success and lost in vote share across Colchester, failing to take a single ward. Like UKIP, and despite a notable boost in local and national membership, the Green Party of England and Wales also fell in vote share and failed to win any seats. However, both UKIP and the Green Party received the highest number of votes for their respective parties in a Colchester local election.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Background
Prior to the election, Independent member for Stanway, Laura Sykes, resigned her post as Borough Councillor due to moving away from the area. This left the ruling coalition with a majority of 3 over the Conservative group.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Background, Boundary Changes
A boundary review was undertaken throughout 2014/2015 as part of a review of local authority electoral wards. The new electoral wards have taken effect from this election reducing the number of councillors by 9 (from 60 to 51), reducing the number of wards by 10 (from 27 to 17) and standardising the number of councillors representing each ward (3 councillors per ward). Each ward is designed to contain approximately 8,000 electors, taking into account the projected population growth over the next 10 years.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Results Summary
The total number of seats on the council was reduced from 60 to 51 seats, resulting in a nominal loss of 5 Conservative and 4 Liberal Democrats councillors. This is reflected in the changes in seats.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Council Composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Ward Results
Due to boundary changes the number of wards was reduced from 27 to 17. Each ward is represented by 3 councillors. The length of an elected councillor's term will depend on the position of election within that ward (1st, 4 years; 2nd, 3 years; 3rd, 2 years). Terms will revert to 4-years as standard from the 2018 election.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Ward Results
The Statement of Nominated Persons was released by Colchester Borough Council's Returning Officer following the closing of nominations on 7 April 2016. This detailed the list of candidates nominated to stand in each ward.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Ward Results
The percentages shown in the tables are calculated by dividing the votes a candidate received by the total turnout, then multiplying by one-hundred.


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Ward Results, Marks Tey & Layer
Marks Tey & Layer was created from the following wards:


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Ward Results, New Town & Christ Church
New Town & Christ Church was created from the following wards:


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Ward Results, Old Heath & The Hythe
Old Heath & The Hythe was created from the following wards:


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, Ward Results, St. Anne's & St. John's
St. Anne's & St. John's was created from the following wards:


2016 Colchester Borough Council election, By-elections since 2016
A by-election was called in Shrub End following the resignation of one of the incumbent Liberal Democrat councillors. The seat was gained by the Conservatives in the subsequent by-election.


2016 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships
The 2016 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money. It took place in Albuquerque, United States, on 19–25 September 2016.


2016 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2016 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Doubles
Paula Cristina Gonçalves and Sanaz Marand were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Gonçalves partnered Verónica Cepede Royg, while Marand partnered Melanie Oudin, but both pairs lost in the first round.


2016 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Doubles
Michaëlla Krajicek and Maria Sanchez won the title, defeating Elise Mertens and Mandy Minella in the final, 6–2, 6–4.


2016 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Singles
Michaëlla Krajicek was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Alison Van Uytvanck.


2016 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Singles
Mandy Minella won the title, defeating Verónica Cepede Royg in the final, 6–4, 7–5.


2016 Colgate Raiders football team
The 2016 Colgate Raiders football team represented Colgate University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Dan Hunt and played their home games at Crown Field at Andy Kerr Stadium. They were a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 5–5, 4–2 in Patriot League play to finish in third place.


2016 College Baseball All-America Team
This is a list of college baseball players named first team All-Americans for the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball season. The NCAA recognizes four different All-America selectors for baseball: the American Baseball Coaches Association (since 1947), Baseball America (since 1981), Collegiate Baseball (since 1991), and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (since 2001).


2016 College Basketball Invitational
The 2016 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT. The opening games and the quarterfinals were held in mid-March on the home courts of participating teams. After the quarterfinals, the bracket was reseeded for the semifinals. A best-of-three championship series was held between the two finalist teams. An experimental rule allowing players six personal fouls instead of five was used in all national postseason tournaments except for the NCAA Tournament.


2016 College Basketball Invitational, Participants
The following teams were announced as participants Sunday, March 13 after the NCAA Selection Show.


2016 College Football All-America Team
The 2016 College Football All-America Team includes those players of American college football who have been honored by various selector organizations as the best players at their respective positions. The selector organizations award the "All-America" honor annually following the conclusion of the fall college football season. The original All-America team was the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp.


2016 College Football All-America Team
In 1950, the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) service bureau, compiled the first list of All-Americans including first-team selections on teams created for a national audience that received national circulation with the intent of recognizing selections made from viewpoints that were nationwide. Since 1957, College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) has bestowed Academic All-American recognition on male and female athletes in Divisions I, II, and III of the NCAA as well as National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics athletes, covering all NCAA championship sports.


2016 College Football All-America Team
The 2016 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), The Sporting News (TSN), Sports Illustrated (SI), USA Today (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), College Football News (CFN), Scout.com, Athlon Sports, and Fox Sports (FOX).


2016 College Football All-America Team
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. Players are chosen against other players playing at their position only. To be selected a consensus All-American, players must be chosen to the first team on at least two of the five official selectors as recognized by the NCAA. Second- and third-team honors are used to break ties. Players named first-team to all five selectors are deemed unanimous All-Americans. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine consensus and unanimous All-Americans.


2016 College Football All-America Team
Twenty-seven players were recognized as consensus All-Americans for 2016, 14 of them being unanimous. Unanimous selections are followed by an asterisk (*).


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship
The 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that determined a national champion of NCAA Division I FBS college football for the 2015 season. It was played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on January 11, 2016, and was the culminating game of the 2015–16 bowl season.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship
The game was played between the winners of two pre-designated semifinal bowls played on December 31, 2015: the No. 1 Clemson Tigers, who beat the No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners 37–17 at the Orange Bowl, coached by Dabo Swinney in his 8th season, and the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide, who shut out the No. 3 Michigan State Spartans 38–0 at the Cotton Bowl Classic, coached by Nick Saban.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship
The 13–1 Alabama Crimson Tide won the game, holding off the undefeated Clemson Tigers 45–40 in the fourth quarter. Accompanied by a talented receiving corps, Clemson's Heisman Finalist quarterback Deshaun Watson had a historic performance, setting the record for most total yards in national championship game history, with 478 yards (405 passing / 73 rushing) against the nation's third-ranked defense in Alabama, breaking the record previously set by Vince Young in the 2006 Rose Bowl. Following the game, the AP Poll also named Alabama as its top team of the season, giving Alabama their fourth title in seven seasons. Both Clemson and Alabama finished the season 14–1.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Background
University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona was announced as the host site in December 2013, along with 2017 host Raymond James Stadium. The Arizona Organizing Committee, co-chaired by Brad Wright and Win Holden, hosted the game.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Teams
The championship game marked the 16th meeting between the two schools. The last previous meeting was the season opener in the 2008 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Teams, Alabama
Alabama was led by head coach Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide played Michigan State in the semifinals at the 2015 Cotton Bowl Classic, winning 38–0.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Teams, Clemson
Clemson was led by head coach Dabo Swinney. The Tigers played Oklahoma in the semifinals at the 2015 Orange Bowl, winning 37–17.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
Alabama came off a stellar defensive performance in the semifinal game, and was looking to contain Clemson's QB Deshaun Watson, but Alabama defense was quickly forced into conceding most of the field and stopping Clemson in the redzone. Alabama's offense was stressed at the line of scrimmage by Clemson's defensive line led by Shaq Lawson.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
Despite being statistically outplayed by Clemson (550 Clemson offensive yards to 473 Alabama) offensively and statistically tied in other areas, Alabama was able to capitalize on three key plays: an interception of Deshaun Watson's pass early in the second quarter, a surprise Alabama onside kick early in the fourth quarter, and an Alabama kickoff return for a touchdown in the middle of the fourth quarter. These plays accounted for 21 points, and Alabama won the game 45 to 40.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
Having won the coin toss to start the game, Clemson elected to defer to the second half. Characteristic of Alabama, the offensive opening drive was slow and cautious but notable for utilizing Derrick Henry four times, a change from the semifinal game against Michigan. Alabama and Clemson would trade punting drives before, on the next Alabama possession, Derrick Henry was utilized three times. On the third run, Derrick found an opening for a 50-yard touchdown run (7-0). However, on the next two Clemson possessions Deshaun Watson used his speed, agility, and elusiveness to sustain drives with a mixture of QB runs and fade routes against Alabama's top-ranked defense. Both drives ended in TD throws to Hunter Renfrow (7-14), the latter of which ended the first quarter.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
On Alabama's next possession to start the second quarter, despite a promising start in a 29-yard pass to Richard Mullaney, Alabama's offensive line conceded a sack by Kevin Dodd and a tackle for loss on Derrick Henry. Characteristic of Alabama, facing third and long offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin opted for extra field position on a punt with a short throw to Ridley rather than attempting a first down pass. On the ensuing Clemson drive Deshaun Watson was intercepted by Eddie Jackson at the Clemson 42 yard line.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
The resulting Alabama possession culminated in a 1-yard TD run by Derrick Henry (14-14). After this flurry, both Clemson and Alabama played more cautiously as each of the three following possessions by both teams went no further than 40 yards. Clemson's last possession of the half resulted in a blocked field goal.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
Going into the third quarter, Clemson opted to receive the ball but was forced into a quick three and out. On Alabama's next possession, TE OJ Howard found himself open in space for a 53-yard touchdown (21-14). Clemson responded with a mixture of QB runs, pass plays by Deshaun Watson, and key run plays by RB Wayne Gallman on its next two drives to get a 37-yard field goal by Greg Hugel (21-17) and a 1-yard touchdown run by Wayne Gallman (21-24). Both teams were then stalled for three and outs or near three and outs on their next two possessions to close the Third quarter.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
On Alabama's first possession of the fourth quarter, Jacob Coker found ArDarius Stewart in single man coverage for 38 yards. This gain, however, did not translate into a touchdown as the offense was stalled by good secondary play from Clemson. Alabama settled for a field goal from 33 yards to tie the game (24-24). On the ensuing kickoff Alabama gambled on a surprise onside kick, executed to perfection by Adam Griffith and caught by Marlon Humphrey. Alabama capitalized almost immediately with another 50+ touchdown pass to a wide open OJ Howard (31-24). Clemson pulled within 4 once again.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
However, Alabama's defense held in the red zone and forced a field goal from Clemson (31-27). On the ensuing kickoff, Alabama RB Kenyan Drake stunned Clemson by taking the ball 95 yards for an Alabama touchdown (38-27). Deshaun Watson quickly answered with an 8 play 75 yard touchdown drive which culminated in a 15-yard touchdown pass to WR Artavius Scott.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
In attempt to pull within three points of Alabama (and thus within a field goal of tying the game), Clemson attempted a two-point conversion with what morphed into a naked bootleg QB run by Deshaun Watson which was stopped short (38-33). On Alabama's next possession QB Jacob Coker passed the ball in a checkdown screen to OJ Howard who, getting good blocking, ran for 63 yards. With less than 3 minutes left in the game, ran the ball up the middle to convert downs.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Game summary
After a key third down scramble for a first down by Jacob Coker, Derrick Henry, on third down, broke the touchdown plane with the nose of the ball over the top of the goal line pile of players for a 1-yard TD run (45-33). A stellar performance by Deshaun Watson on a 55-second drive culminated in a 24-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Leggett with 12 seconds left on the clock (45-40). Clemson attempted an onside kick but the ball was recovered by Alabama sealing their victory. This was the fourth Alabama national championship win in seven years, its first of the College Football Playoff era, and head coach Nick Saban's fifth overall.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Broadcasting
The game was broadcast in the United States by ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN Radio, with Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as English commentators on TV, and Eduardo Varela and Pablo Viruega as Spanish commentators. In Brazil, the game was broadcast on ESPN Brazil by Everaldo Marques (play by play) and Antony Curti (color commentator). As in 2015, ESPN provided Megacast coverage of the game, which supplemented coverage with analysis and additional perspectives of the game on different ESPN channels and platforms.


2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, Broadcasting
An average of 23.6 million viewers watched the game, representing a 29% decrease over the 2015 title game, which was seen by 33.4 million viewers. The game was the sixth-highest-rated broadcast in U.S. cable television history (by contrast, the 2015 game was the highest-rated), and ESPN reported that the game brought the network its third-highest overnight ratings (behind the 2010 and 2015 title games).


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
The 2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was a postseason single-elimination tournament of 26 NCAA Division I basketball teams. The first round was played March 14–16, 2016. The second round March 18–20, Quarterfinals March 22–24 the semifinals March 27, and the championship game was played on March 29


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
Participants who belonged to "mid-major" conferences, not invited to the 2016 NCAA Tournament, National Invitation Tournament, College Basketball Invitational or the Vegas 16 made up the field. An experimental rule allowing players six personal fouls instead of five was used in all 2016 national postseason tournaments except for the NCAA Tournament.


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
Originally set to include 32 teams, the 2016 tournament consisted of 26 participants. After all 26 teams played in the first round, the top-three highest rated teams based on the Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings regular season rating automatically advanced to the quarterfinals.


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
Columbia beat UC Irvine 73–67 in the championship game to give the Ivy League just its second postseason tournament title in conference history (Princeton won the 1975 NIT).


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, Participating teams
The following teams received an invitation to the 2016 CIT:


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, Format
The CIT uses the old NIT model in which there is no set bracket. Future round opponents are determined by the results of the previous round. After all 26 teams played in the first round, the top-three highest rated teams based on the Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings regular season rating automatically advanced to the quarterfinals.


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, Format, Coach John McLendon Classic
The Coach John McLendon Classic was televised March 14, on CBS Sports Network as part of the CIT. The Classic will feature at least one historically black college/university. The winner of the John McLendon Classic advanced to the second round of the CIT. This will be the first time in NCAA Division I Basketball history, that a "Classic" has been part of a postseason tournament. Previously the John McLendon Classic was played during the regular season.


2016 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, Bracket
Bracket is for visual purposes only. The CIT does not have a set bracket.


2016 Collegiate Rugby Championship
The 2016 Collegiate Rugby Championship is a college rugby sevens tournament played June 4–5 at Talen Energy Stadium in Chester, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. It is the seventh annual Collegiate Rugby Championship, and the sixth consecutive year that the tournament will be at Talen Energy Stadium (formerly known as PPL Park). The event was broadcast on NBC and NBCSN. Commentators were Todd Harris and Brian Hightower. California won the championship, defeating UCLA 31–7 in an all-Pac-12 final. Attendance for the two-day event was 27,224.


2016 Collingwood Football Club season
The 2016 Collingwood Football Club season was the club's 120th season of senior competition in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its reserves team in the VFL.


2016 Colombia army helicopter crash
A Mil Mi-17 of the National Army of Colombia was reported missing after taking off from the city of Quibdó on 26 June 2016. The wreckage of the helicopter was found the following day in mountainous terrain in the department of Caldas, 180 km north-west of the capital city Bogotá. It was the third helicopter crash in Colombia in 2016, and with seventeen killed was the worst accident in eleven years for the Colombian military.


2016 Colombia army helicopter crash, Accident
On 26 June, the Colombian air force took part in an offensive against the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerilla group in the department of Chocó, in the west of the country. Following the operation, the helicopter with registration number EJC-3393, took off at 2 p.m. local time from Quibdó, the capital city of the Chocó department, bound for the Tolemaida Air Base in the department of Tolima Its final report was made from a position 35 miles north of the town of Mariquita before disappearing.


2016 Colombia army helicopter crash, Accident
Local people in the municipality of Pensilvania in the department of Caldas reported seeing the helicopter and hearing an explosion. The search team consisted of the 22 Infantry Battalion along with members of the civil defense corps, the police, the fire brigade, the Red Cross, and volunteer members of the public from Pensilvania. The wreckage was located on 27 June on a mountain side at an altitude of between 2300 and 2400 metres above sea level. Contrary to the locals' reports of an explosion, the army confirmed that no explosion appeared to have taken place, and that the helicopter appeared to have crashed directly into the mountain and broken apart on impact. All 17 people on board died in the accident.


2016 Colombia army helicopter crash, Investigation
Preliminary investigations into the cause of the accident pinpointed bad weather as the most likely cause. The head of the Colombian army, General Alberto José Mejía Ferrero, said that the helicopter had hit the mountain almost head-on and blamed poor visibility. However, he indicated that a full investigation would be carried out in order to determine the exact causes of the accident.


2016 Colombia army helicopter crash, Investigation
The accident occurred less than a year after a similar incident that killed 16 military personnel, which may have been shot down. Earlier in 2016 two other helicopters had crashed in Colombia, one killing 4 and one killing 3. Another recent crash also injured 4 people.


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum
The Colombian peace agreement referendum was held on October 2, 2016 to ratify the final agreement on the termination of the Colombian conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC guerillas. It failed with 50.2% voting against it and 49.8% voting in favor. Approval of the referendum was taken for granted in Colombia based on opinion polls. Explanations for the surprising "No" victory fell along the similar ideological lines of Donald Trump's victory in the US Election and the Brexit vote in the UK, both also held in 2016.


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Background
The aim of this vote was the direct approval or rejection by voters of the agreements signed between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cartagena de Indias, September 27, 2016. The peace negotiations began on August 26, 2012, in Havana, and concluded on August 25, 2016. The final agreement included topics of rural reform, political participation, the end of hostilities, solutions to the production of illicit drugs, the rights of victims, and the mechanisms of implementation and verification. On July 18, 2016 the Constitutional Court approved the holding of a national plebiscite to validate the peace agreement. The ballot paper consisted of a single question for voters to approve or reject the signed peace agreements:


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Background
¿Apoya el acuerdo final para terminación del conflicto y construcción de una paz estable y duradera? (Do you support the final agreement to end the conflict and build a stable and lasting peace?)


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Background
For the agreement to be approved, the "Yes" votes had to account for at least 13% of the electorate (i.e., 4,396,626 votes out of a total of 34,899,945 registered voters) and outnumber the "No" votes.


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Campaign, Yes
President Juan Manuel Santos, who was a promoter of the peace talks, announced the support for the 'Yes' option. The 'Yes' campaign received the support of many members of the Colombian community from the political left (Gustavo Petro, César Gaviria, Antonio Navarro Wolff, Piedad Cordoba), centre (Antanas Mockus, Sergio Fajardo, Lucho Garzon, Claudia López Hernández) and right (German Vargas Lleras, Enrique Peñalosa, Mauricio Cárdenas). The political parties that were in favour are the Alternative Democratic Pole, the Social Party of National Unity, Radical Change, the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation, the Indigenous Social Alliance Movement, the Green Party of Colombia, the Colombian Conservative Party and the Liberal Party of Colombia.


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Campaign, Yes
Although most public figures in Colombia refused to explicitly declare their support for either the 'Yes' or 'No' vote, many indicated their support for 'Yes' through various messages. Colombia's best-known singers Shakira, Carlos Vives, Juanes and Fonseca all posted messages of support and hope for peace on their Twitter accounts.


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Campaign, Yes
International footballer Falcao wrote a letter to the newspaper El Tiempo in which he stated that he imagined "a country with the capacity to forgive", while former Colombian striker Carlos Valderrama was more outspoken in his support, appearing at campaign rallies for the 'Yes' vote and saying he wanted a better country for his children. Cyclist Nairo Quintana, who had won the Vuelta a España and come second in the Tour de France in 2016, asked his fellow Colombians to support the peace accord, describing it as "a step we had to take".


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Campaign, Yes
Novelist Héctor Abad Faciolince, whose father Héctor Abad Gómez had been murdered for his stance on human rights, expressed his happiness that an accord had been reached. Internationally renowned sculptor Fernando Botero sent a sculpture of a white dove to the Colombian presidential palace, created in his signature "fat" style of portraying people and animals. It was accompanied by a message that he had wanted to create "this present for my country in order to express my support and my solidarity with this [peace] process".


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Campaign, Yes
A Twitter campaign to promote the peace process outside Colombia, entitled "#Peace4Colombia", attracted the support of Colombian-born Hollywood actor John Leguizamo and Spanish singer Miguel Bose, who holds honorary Colombian nationality. Most displaced Colombian victims living outside of the country supported the Yes vote, and voted accordingly, although some were critical of having been excluded from the peace process.


2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum, Campaign, No
The most prominent campaigner for the 'No' vote was current senator and former president Álvaro Uribe. Uribe built his career, including two terms as president, on promises to tackle the guerrilla groups in the country, and had been an outspoken critic of Santos, his successor as president, ever since Santos began negotiations with the FARC. Uribe was supported by senior members of his Democratic Center party, including the 2014 presidential candidate Óscar Iván Zuluaga, 2014 vice-presidential candidate Carlos Holmes Trujillo, and senator Iván Duque Márquez.