2016 Ansbach bombing, Event
At 22:12 CEST (20:12 UTC), a bomb exploded outside Eugens Weinstube (Eugene's Wine Bar) in Ansbach, Germany and injured fifteen people, four seriously. The explosion occurred near the entrance to the Ansbach Open music festival with around 2,500 people in attendance. It was initially thought to have been caused by a gas leak. Daleel was communicating with someone online immediately before the blast. Daleel was in communication with a telephone number in Saudi Arabia minutes before the attack.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Event
He carried a backpack filled with screws, nails, and miscellaneous metal parts used in wood manufacturing and was denied entry into the music festival shortly before the blast because he had no ticket. Thereafter, witnesses say, Daleel sat outside Eugene's Wine Bar, leaned forward, and detonated an improvised explosive device. Emergency personnel arrived and attempted to resuscitate Daleel, but he was already dead.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Event
German authorities now believe Daleel intended to remotely detonate the Ansbach bomb while filming it and to later commit further terrorist attacks.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator
Mohammad Daleel (Arabic: محمد دليل), also known as Abu Yusuf al-Karrar (Arabic: أبو يوسف الكرار), was a 27-year-old Syrian refugee from Aleppo who had arrived in Germany in 2014 seeking asylum.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator
According to Bild, he was a member of Islamic State of Iraq many years ago.. Islamic State called Daleel a "soldier of the Caliphate".


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator
Bild further says he told German officials that he was a Sunni Muslim and had come from Aleppo. He said he had studied law for half a year and worked at a soap factory owned by his father. "A missile had damaged our house, I was heavily injured and brought to Turkey", he claimed in his asylum application.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator
According to a biography in IS's weekly magazine al-Nabaa, he fought against the government of Bashar al-Assad since the very start of the Syrian Civil War, in a number of different rebel groups. He is said to have formed a cell specialized in grenade and molotov cocktail attacks on the regime. Around the time of the split between Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State, he was wounded in or near Aleppo and was brought to Turkey for treatment.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator, Immigration
Mohammad Daleel left Syria on 16 July 2013. Traffickers drove him to Bulgaria, where he filed an asylum request in September 2013. On 17 April 2014, he said, he flew from Sofia to Vienna on Austrian Airlines, Flight OS 806, Seat 22A, with one suitcase. A "mysterious benefactor" gave him the airplane ticket at no charge. Austrian police seized him and took his documents. On 20 April, he applied for asylum in Austria but then decided to go to Munich on 5 July 2014, where he also applied for asylum in Germany. He stated to German authorities that he had been a victim of torture, a claim of which there is no record of him having previously made, and which The New York Times characterised as appearing to be "embellishments" he made.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator, Immigration
German officials and the local court in Ansbach rejected his first asylum request on 2 December 2014 and ordered his deportation to Bulgaria. Normal procedure in Germany did not allow Daleel to be deported to his home country due to the ongoing Syrian civil war. As he had been registered in Bulgaria, German officials and the local court in Ansbach ordered his deportation to Bulgaria. He then attempted to commit suicide twice and was under psychiatric care. Due to Daleel's mental health diagnosis, the deportation to Bulgaria was suspended. On 13 July 2016, a second deportation notice to Bulgaria was sent to Daleel. As Daleel was part of the Islamic in Syria and was receiving detailed instructions from the group, there were speculations that he may have exaggerated his mental health problems to evade deportation.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator, Immigration
Minister of Parliament Harald Weinberg of the Left Party blocked the deportation, one of six asylum seekers he has aided. He said he is "shocked and saddened" by the attack, "Especially since I am often at the Eugene Weinstube and am familiar with many guests there," but given what he knew at that time he believed he had done the right thing. Due to Daleel's mental health diagnosis, the deportation to Bulgaria was suspended. On 13 July 2016, a second deportation notice to Bulgaria was sent to Daleel.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator, Immigration
Axel von Maltitz, a trauma specialist, wrote a report in 2015 where he warned about Daleel's "extreme spirit" and stated «attempts to deport Mr Daleel could result in a "spectacular" suicide attempt». The report was sent to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator, Immigration
Paul Cruickshank, the Editor-in-Chief of CTC Sentinel, a publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, has suggested Daleel 'faked or exaggerated' any mental health problems in an attempt to stay in Germany.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator, Immigration
Daleel had been treated around 6 months in an institution called "Exilio e.V." in Lindau by heilpraktikers which claims to offer holistic health treatment "for immigrants" under the leadership of Gisela von Maltitz and Axel von Maltitz. Purportedly, the institution does not include any qualified Doctor of Medicine, psychologist or psychiatrist. The institution has been criticized for using "dubious" practices such as rebirthing.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Perpetrator, Other allegations
It was claimed that Daleel had once attempted to firebomb a German immigration office, but been dissuaded by an aide assigned him (as a refugee asylum applicant) to "help him adapt in Germany".


2016 Ansbach bombing, Preparation for the bombing
It was alleged that Daleel built the explosive device "in the refugee center", and that it took him three months, during which period German police raided the building he was living in but failed to arrest him. He was in constant contact with "one of the soldiers" of IS.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Preparation for the bombing
Daleel conducted reconnaissance of the location a day before the attack. He also sent a video to the Islamic State, which was released by Amaq News Agency.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Aftermath
The music festival was cancelled and the immediate vicinity in which the bombing occurred was evacuated.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Aftermath, Investigation
German authorities have found a video showing Daleel pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and intending to attack Germans on his phone. Multiple cell phones, SIM cards, a notebook, and six Facebook accounts with Islamist material that belonged to Daleel were also discovered and under investigation. Furthermore, inside the asylum accommodation in which the attacker lived, materials for bomb building were uncovered. Joachim Herrmann, the Bavarian interior minister, said that "it is unquestionable that it is a terror attack with corresponding Islamist convictions of the perpetrator."


2016 Ansbach bombing, Aftermath, Investigation
Less than an hour after media reported that the attacker had made a pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Amaq News Agency called him an Islamic State fighter who executed the operation in response to calls to target countries of the coalition that fights Islamic State.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Aftermath, Investigation
The attack came to be considered a "lone wolf attack."


2016 Ansbach bombing, Aftermath, Reactions
As a result of the recent attacks in Germany, the hashtag #Merkelsommer and phrase "Merkel summer" trended on Twitter starting on 25 July 2016 and appeared in other social media. Experts believed that the recent attacks could create an anti-foreigner sentiment in the country, thus presenting criticism and pressure for Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany since 2005.


2016 Ansbach bombing, Aftermath, Reactions
Joachim Herrmann acknowledged that it was "a very terrible week, as I think it was for most of the people in Bavaria." He said that German authorities would investigate ways to prevent abuse of the asylum system.


2016 Antipolo local elections
Local elections was held in Antipolo City on May 9, 2016 within the Philippine general election. The voters will elect candidates for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, the two district congressmen, two provincial board members of Rizal, one for each district, and the sixteen councilors, eight in each of the city's districts.


2016 Antipolo local elections, Background
Incumbent Dr. Casimiro "Jun" Ynares III of the Nationalist People's Coalition is running for reelection. His running mate is incumbent second district councilor Josefina "Pining" Gatlabayan, the wife of former mayor and second district representative Angelito Gatlabayan.


2016 Antipolo local elections, Background
Ynares' opponent is his estranged vice mayor, Ronaldo "Puto" Leyva. Leyva was stripped of all administrative powers and privileges vested in his position since 2013 by Ynares and his allies in the city council, and has cried political harassment since. Leyva also holds the distinction of being the elected official who is not allowed to hold office inside a city hall. His running mate is his 2013 partner, former councilor, vice mayor, and mayor Danilo "Nilo" Leyble, and his team will field a complete slate down to councilors.


2016 Antipolo local elections, Declared Candidates, Mayor
Dr. Casimiro "Jun" Ynares III is running for reelection; among his opponents is incumbent Vice Mayor Ronaldo "Puto" Leyva.


2016 Antipolo local elections, Declared Candidates, Vice Mayor
Former Mayor Danilo Leyble is running for Vice Mayor, his opponent is the wife of former Mayor Angelito Gatlabayan, incumbent Councilor Josefina "Pining" Gatlabayan. Incumbent vice mayor Ronaldo Leyva is running for mayoralty.


2016 Antipolo local elections, Declared Candidates, District Representatives, 1st District
Roberto Puno is term-limited as he has reached the maximum three-term limit for any elective official. His wife, media personality, Chiqui Roa-Puno, will run in his stead and will be challenged by incumbent first district councilor Juanito "Dudok" Lawis.


2016 Antipolo local elections, Declared Candidates, District Representatives, 2nd District
Romeo Acop is running for reelection for his third and final term unopposed. Acop, who prior to the filing of certificates of candidacy for this elections was a known mayoralty bet for the city, is a common candidate of both Team AntiPoLo 2016 (Team Puto-Nilo) and Team Ynares.


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì
The 2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Manerbio, Italy between 22 and 28 August 2016.


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt :


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw with a protected ranking:


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì – Doubles
Flavio Cipolla and Daniel Muñoz de la Nava were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì – Doubles
Nikola Mektić and Antonio Šančić won the title after defeating Juan Ignacio Galarza and Leonardo Mayer 7–5, 6–1 in the final.


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì – Singles
Andrey Kuznetsov was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2016 Antonio Savoldi–Marco Cò – Trofeo Dimmidisì – Singles
Leonardo Mayer won the title after defeating Filip Krajinović 7–6(7–3), 7–5 in the final.


2016 Antrim Senior Football Championship
The 2016 Antrim Senior Football Championship is the 115th official edition of Antrim GAA's premier club gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Antrim. The tournament consists of 12 teams with the winner representing Antrim in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship has a straight knock-out format.


2016 Antrim Senior Football Championship
All Saints, St. Brigids and St. Josephs Glenavy return to the senior championship in 2016.


2016 Antrim Senior Football Championship
Éire Óg Cargin were the defending champions after they defeated Lámh Dhearg 2-11 to 1-5 in the 2015 final. They successfully defended their title to claim a "2-in-a-row" of championships on 16 October 2016 at Corrigan Park when defeating St. Gall's on a scoreline of 1-10 to 0-6.


2016 Antrim Senior Football Championship, Round 1
8 of the 12 senior clubs play in this round. The 4 winners proceed to the quarter-finals to play the 4 teams who received byes in Round 1. The 4 losers exit the championship.


2016 Antrim Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals
The 4 Round 1 winners play the 4 teams who received byes in Round 1.


2016 Antrim Senior Hurling Championship
The 2016 Antrim Senior Hurling Championship was the 116th staging of the Antrim Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Antrim County Board in 1901. The championship began on 7 August 2016 ended on 25 September 2016.


2016 Anzac Test
The 2016 Anzac Test was a rugby league test match played between Australia and New Zealand at Hunter Stadium in Newcastle. It was the 17th Anzac Test played between the two nations since the first was played under the Super League banner in 1997.


2016 Anzac Test
The game marked the international coaching debut of Mal Meninga for Australia since taking over the position from Tim Sheens in late 2015. Meninga, a 4 time Kangaroo Tourist (the only player ever to do so), a World Cup winning captain and a veteran of 46 tests for Australia between 1982–94, has previously coached Queensland to 9 State of Origin series wins in 10 years (including a record 8 series wins in succession from 2006-2013) in the years prior to taking over as Kangaroos coach.


2016 Anzac Test
This was the first of two matches between Australia and New Zealand before the 2016 Rugby League Four Nations in late October and November. The second match will be played at the nib Stadium in Perth, Western Australia on 15 October.


2016 Anzac Test
Meninga broke tradition and named the Australian team a few days early, which included 4 debutants; Blake Ferguson, Josh McGuire, Michael Morgan and Fijian-born Semi Radradra.


2016 Anzac Test, Squads
1 - Peta Hiku was originally selected to play but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Gerard Beale. 2 - Shaun Kenny-Dowall and Brad Takairangi were originally selected to play but both players withdrew. Tohu Harris was shifted from five-eighth to centre and Kodi Nikorima was shifted from the bench to five-eighth as a result.


2016 Anzac Test, Women's Test
A Women's rugby league match between the Australian Jillaroos and New Zealand Kiwi Ferns will serve as the curtain-raiser for the main game.


2016 Anzac Test, Women's Test
New Zealand coach Alan Jackson named an 18-strong squad in preparation for the Trans-Tasman Test.


2016 Anzac Test, Women's Test
A few days later, Australian coach Steve Folkes announced his 18-strong squad for the Trans-Tasman Test.


2016 Apatin Open darts
2016 Apatin Open is a darts tournament, which took take place in Apatin, Serbia on July 9th 2016. 77 men and 9 women participated.


2016 Apia International Sydney
The 2016 Apia International Sydney was a joint 2016 ATP World Tour and 2016 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Sydney, New South Wales. It was the 123rd edition of the tournament and took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia. It was held from 10 January through 16 January 2016 as part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.


2016 Apia International Sydney, Prize money
1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money. *per team


2016 Apia International Sydney, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Apia International Sydney, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Apia International Sydney, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Apia International Sydney, Broadcast
Selected matches aired in Australia on 7Two, with live coverage of both day and night sessions. Every match was also available to be streamed live through a free 7Tennis mobile app.


2016 Apia International Sydney – Men's Doubles
Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together. Nestor teamed up with Marcelo Melo, but lost in the quarterfinals to Łukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski.


2016 Apia International Sydney – Men's Doubles
Bopanna played alongside Florin Mergea, but lost in the final to Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares, 3–6, 6–7(6–8).


2016 Apia International Sydney – Men's Singles
Viktor Troicki was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Grigor Dimitrov in the final, 2–6, 6–1, 7–6(9–7).


2016 Apia International Sydney – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2016 Apia International Sydney – Women's Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sania Mirza were the defending champions, but Mattek-Sands chose not to participate this year. Mirza played alongside Martina Hingis and successfully defended her title, defeating Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 1–6, 7–5, [10–5].


2016 Apia International Sydney – Women's Singles
Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but withdrew before her first match due to a gastrointestinal illness.


2016 Apia International Sydney – Women's Singles
Svetlana Kuznetsova won the title, defeating Monica Puig in the final, 6–0, 6–2.


2016 Apia International Sydney – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top two seeds received a bye into the second round.


2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team
The 2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by fourth-year head coach Scott Satterfield. They finished the season 10–3, 7–1 in Sun Belt play to win a share of the Sun Belt championship with Arkansas State. They were invited to the Camellia Bowl where they defeated Toledo.


2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team, Schedule
Appalachian State announced its 2016 football schedule on March 3, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Mountaineers will host Sun Belt foes Georgia State, Idaho, Louisiana–Monroe, and Texas State, and will travel to Georgia Southern, Louisiana–Lafayette, New Mexico State, and Troy. Appalachian State will skip out on two Sun Belt teams this season, Arkansas State and South Alabama.


2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team, Schedule
The team will play four non–conference games, two home games against Miami from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Old Dominion from Conference USA, and two road games against Akron from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and Tennessee from the Southeastern Conference (SEC).


2016 Arab Junior Athletics Championships
The 2016 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the seventeenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place between 5–8 May at the Lalla-Setti Athletics Stadium in Tlemcen, Algeria. It was the first time that Algeria hosted the event. A total of 44 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 22 for women.


2016 Arab Junior Athletics Championships
Around 800 athletes from 20 countries were expected to appear at the competition, though only 232 athletes from 15 nations ultimately did so.


2016 Arab Junior Athletics Championships
Bahrain took the most gold medals with 16 while Tunisia won the next highest with 9. The host nation Algeria took the most medals with a total of 39, seven of them gold.


2016 Arab League summit
The 2016 Arab League Summit was held in Nouakchott, Mauritania from 25 to 27 June 2016. The summit focused mostly on Yemen, as well as discussing the Arab Military Joint Coalition and having a bigger role in the region.


2016 Arab League summit, Delays
The Arab League summits are traditionally held in late March, yet this summit wasn't. It was originally supposed to be held in Morocco according to the cycle that the Arab League Summits follows, in February, Morocco officially refused to host the summit that was scheduled for the following Month, Mauritania was adamant to hold the 2016's Arab League summit that it has said it is willing to host it in a “tent” if need be. And it has stuck to its promise. The summit that held the motto of "hope", was a message to Syria, Libya, Yemen and most importantly Palestine. Mauritania is one of the farthest located Arab countries from the rest of its Middle Eastern neighbors. Its official language is Arabic with French and Zenaga Berber recognized as other languages.


2016 Arab League summit, Top Summit Agenda
Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya were all marked as top Arab League summit agenda, Arab leaders, speaking at the opening of the Arab League summit in the Mauritanian capital, have pledged to "defeat terrorism", with the  ongoing threat of violence in the region dominating the agenda. Egypt's prime minister, was one of the first of the 21 leaders to speak and blamed foreign intervention in the region for the rise of groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) and for the radicalization of young people.


2016 Arab League summit, Top Summit Agenda, Syria
Several Arab League member states have confirmed that there is no solution for the Syria situation without the removal of Assad. Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, addressed the conflict in Syria, saying there could be no solution while President Bashar al-Assad was still in power.


2016 Arab League summit, Top Summit Agenda, Palestine
Arab leaders also voiced support for a new French initiative aimed at relaunching Israeli-Palestinian talks and holding an international conference for peace by year end.


2016 Arab Swimming Championships
The 3rd Arab Swimming Championships were held from 4 to 7 April 2016 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates at the Hamdan Sports Complex.


2016 Arab Volleyball Clubs Champions Championship
The 2016 Arab Clubs Champions Championship was the 34th edition of Arab world's premier club volleyball tournament held in Sousse and M'saken.


2016 Arab Volleyball Clubs Champions Championship, Group stage
The draw was held on 23 January 2016 in Bahrain.


2016 Aragon Superbike World Championship round
The 2016 Aragon Superbike World Championship round was the third round of the 2016 Superbike World Championship. It took place over the weekend of 1–3 April 2016 at the Motorland Aragón.


2016 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2016 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragón in Alcañiz on 25 September 2016.


2016 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, MotoGP
Andrea Iannone was replaced by Michele Pirro after the first practice session. Jack Miller, who had withdrawn from Misano, was kept out of this round. Nicky Hayden rode for Marc VDS in Miller's place.


2016 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fourteen has concluded.


2016 Archery World Cup
The 2016 Archery World Cup is the eleventh edition of the Archery World Cup organised annually by the World Archery Federation. The World Cup finals will be held in Odense, Denmark on 24–25 September. The preliminary stage consisted of three legs instead of the usual four, to make room for the Olympic archery tournament. The first preliminary leg  was in Shanghai, China from 26 April to 1 May, the second leg on 9–15 May in  Medellin, Colombia and the final leg on 12–19 June in Antalya, Turkey. The Antalya leg was also the final Olympic qualification event.


2016 Archery World Cup, Competition rules and scoring
The compound legs consisted of a 50 m qualification round of 72 arrows, followed by the compound round at 50 m on a 6-zone target face, using cumulative scoring for all individual, team and mixed competitions. The top seven individual performers (with no more than two from each country,) plus one host nation representative if not already qualified, proceeded to the finals; the top mixed team performer proceeded to face the host nation at the finals, which were the same competition format as the legs. The team competition was not competed at the finals.


2016 Archery World Cup, Competition rules and scoring
The recurve legs consisted of a 1440 qualification round (formerly called a FITA round), followed by a 72 m Olympic set system. The top seven individual performers (with no more than two from each country), plus one host nation representative if not already qualified, proceeded to the finals; the top mixed team performer proceeded to face the host nation at the finals, which were the same competition format as the legs. The team competition was not competed at the finals.


2016 Archery World Cup, Competition rules and scoring
The scores awarded in the four stages were as follows:


2016 Arctic Winter Games
The 2016 Arctic Winter Games, officially known with the slogan "Join — Feel — Jump", was a winter multi-sport event which took place in Nuuk, Greenland, between  6–12 March 2016. The elected host city was announced on 14 September 2012 by the Arctic Winter Games International Committee (AWGIC) in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.


2016 Arctic Winter Games
The Arctic Winter Games is the world's largest multisport and cultural event for young people of the Arctic. The Games is an international biennial celebration of circumpolar sports and culture held for a week, each time with a different nation or region as the host. AWG celebrates sports, social interaction and culture. The Games contributes to creating an awareness on cultural diversity, and develops athletes to participate in the competitions with the focus on fair play. The Games binds the Arctic countries together and includes traditional games such as Arctic sports and Dené games.


2016 Arctic Winter Games
Around 1,200 athletes from nine teams participated in the games. Around 4,000 people were involved in 2016 Arctic Winter Games, including all competitors and participants in sports and cultural events.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Organization
The Government of Greenland, the Municipality of Sermersooq and the business community of Greenland are the owners and the hosts of the AWG2016. Led by a General Manager, the day-to-day operations and the practical work are handled by the AWG2016 Secretariat.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Organization
In September 2013, Maliina Abelsen was appointed as head of the Nuuk 2016 Organizing Committee.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Organization, Marketing
The 2016 Arctic Winter Games' mascot was a Seal named "Kuluk". Out of 228 different suggestions for the naming of the mascot competition, the name "Kuluk" won and was appointed by the steering committee.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Organization, Participants
Nine contingents participated in the 2016 Arctic Winter Games. The amount of athletes sent by each contingent is shown in parenthesis in the list below.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Venues
The 2016 games were held at various sports venues and schools in and around Nuuk, the exception being the ice hockey events, which were held in Iqaluit, Canada. Opening and closing ceremonies were held at Inussivik.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Venues, Sports venues
The following venues hosted sports events during the games. Unless otherwise mentioned, the venues are located in Nuuk.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, The Games, Sports
213 events in 15 sport disciplines were held at 2016 Arctic Winter Games program. 4 skiing sports were held, with alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing and snowboarding. 2 snowshoe events were held, with snowshoe biathlon and snowshoeing. 2 racquet sports were held, with badminton and table tennis. Team sports held were basketball, futsal, ice hockey and volleyball. Traditional Inuit sports were also held, with Arctic sports, Dene games and wrestling, the latter also including events for traditional wrestling.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, The Games, Sports
The 2016 Arctic Winter Games was the first edition of the games to have futsal on the program. From 1980 to 2014 the sports program had included indoor soccer, but it was replaced by futsal in the 2016 games.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, The Games, Sports
The 2016 games were the first edition of the Arctic Winter Games to not include curling and the first since 1990 to not include dog mushing. Gymnastics, figure skating and speed skating were also removed from the program. For all excluded sports the reasoning for their removal from the programme were a lack of facilities.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Culture
The Arctic Winter Games celebrates culture and creates in the participants an awareness of cultural similarities and dissimilarities. Cultural exchange and social interaction are important parts of the Games. Each participating contingent contributes with performances in dance, song, music, plays or art. These cultural events reflect the traditional as well as the modern cultures of the Arctic. Workshops on a number of cultural, artistic and sports areas were open throughout the Arctic Winter Games.


2016 Arctic Winter Games, Hodgson Trophy
At each Arctic Winter Games, the AWG International Committee presents the Hodgson Trophy to the contingent whose athletes best exemplify the ideals of fair play and team spirit. Team members also receive a distinctive pin in recognition of their accomplishment. The Alaskan team and delegation won the Hodgson Trophy at the 2016 Arctic Winter Games.


2016 Arena Football League season
The 2016 Arena Football League season was the 29th season in the history of the Arena Football League. Prior to the start of the season, the league contracted to eight teams. The 16-game regular season then began on April 1, 2016 and ended on August 1, 2016. The league, however, kept its eight-team playoff format, which meant that every club qualified for the postseason.


2016 Arena Football League season, League business, Teams
The Las Vegas Outlaws and the New Orleans VooDoo were dropped from the league at the end of the 2015 season because new ownership groups could not be found for either team. The Spokane Shock jumped to the Indoor Football League on September 1, 2015. The AFL claimed ownership of the Shock name, forcing the team to rename itself the Spokane Empire.


2016 Arena Football League season, League business, Teams
On October 30, 2015, the league announced that there would not be any expansion teams for the 2016 season; this event occurred just under three hours before what had been slated to be the expected announcement of an expansion franchise in San Antonio to be owned by the ownership group of the San Antonio Spurs. The group owning the 2015 league champion San Jose SaberCats returned the franchise to the league on November 12, 2015 for "reasons unrelated to League operations".


2016 Arena Football League season, League business, Teams
Commissioner Scott Butera said the league would try to find new ownership, but this was not forthcoming in time for the team to operate during the 2016 season to defend its championship. Because the league was now down to eight teams for the 2016 season, there were still the American and National Conferences but no divisional play. The Cleveland Gladiators were moved to the National Conference to maintain a balance between the conferences. The league took over operations of the former Portland Thunder in January 2016 and rebranded it as the Portland Steel. The 2016 schedule was announced on December 10, 2015.


2016 Arena Football League season, League business, ArenaBowl Playoffs
All teams from both conferences qualified for the playoffs. As in the prior season, there were the Conference Semifinals, the Conference Championships, and ArenaBowl XXIX.


2016 Arena Football League season, League business, ArenaBowl Playoffs
In the American Semifinals, the Soul beat the Storm 63–41 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The Sharks beat the Predators 69–68 in overtime; the National Semifinals saw the Rattlers beat the Steel 84–40 and the Gladiators beat the Kiss 56–52 in San Diego, California.


2016 Arena Football League season, League business, ArenaBowl Playoffs
The Rattlers doubled up the Gladiators 82–41 in the National Conference title game. In the American Conference title game, the Soul edged the Sharks by a score of 55–50.


2016 Arena Football League season, League business, ArenaBowl Playoffs
The Philadelphia Soul upset the heavily-favored Arizona Rattlers 56–42 in ArenaBowl XXIX in Glendale, Arizona for their second AFL title.


2016 Argentina Open
The 2016 Argentina Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the ATP Buenos Aires event, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from February 8 through 14, 2016.


2016 Argentina Open – Doubles
Jarkko Nieminen and André Sá were the defending champions, but Nieminen did not compete due to his retirement from professional tennis. Sá played alongside Máximo González, but lost in the first round to Gero Kretschmer and Alexander Satschko. Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah won the title, defeating Iñigo Cervantes and Paolo Lorenzi in the final, 6–3, 6–0.


2016 Argentina Open – Singles
Rafael Nadal was the defending champion, but lost to Dominic Thiem in the semifinals.


2016 Argentina Open – Singles
Thiem went on to win the title, defeating Nicolás Almagro in the final, 7–6(7–2), 3–6, 7–6(7–4).


2016 Argentina Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2016 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament
The 2016 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament was the 8th edition of the women's national tournament. It was held from 27 to 30 October 2016 in Tucumán, Argentina.


2016 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament
Buenos Aires won the tournament for the third time after defeating Mendoza 2–1 in the final.


2016 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament, Squads
Players followed with a country flag are those involved in its senior national team.


2016 Argentine Primera División
The 2016 Argentine Primera División - Copa Axion Energy  was the 126th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on February 5 and ended on May 29. Thirty teams competed in the league, twenty eight returning from the 2015 and two promoted from the 2015 Primera B Nacional (Atlético Tucumán and Patronato). Two teams (Nueva Chicago and Crucero del Norte) were relegated to the Primera B Nacional Championship in the previous tournament.


2016 Argentine Primera División
Lanús won their second title after defeating San Lorenzo 4–0 in the final.


2016 Argentine Primera División, Competition format
The tournament for the 2016 season was composed of two zones of 15 teams. Each team played the other 14 teams in its zone in a round-robin tournament and also played two interzonal matches against its rival team in the other zone, once home and once away. In the end, the winner of each played a final match on a neutral ground to determine the champion.


2016 Argentine Primera División, Copa Libertadores playoff
The second-place team in each zone qualified to the 2017 Copa Libertadores and played a match at a neutral stadium to determine at which stage each team entered. The winner of this playoff qualified directly to the second stage (earning the Argentina 3 berth), and the loser entered the first stage of the tournament (earning the Argentina 4 berth).


2016 Argentine Primera División, Copa Libertadores playoff
Several months after the playoff, CONMEBOL expanded the 2017 Copa Libertadores from 38 to 47 teams with Argentina gaining one additional berth. So, Godoy Cruz also qualified directly to the second stage and AFA had to choose between the third places in each zone, Atlético Tucumán and Independiente, to determine the team qualified as Argentine 6 berth. Finally, AFA gave the extra berth to Atlético Tucumán by sporting criteria.


2016 Argentine Primera División, Relegation
Relegation at the end of the season is based on the points per game obtained by the clubs during the present season and the three previous seasons (only seasons in the Primera are counted). The team with the worst average at the end of the season is relegated to Primera B Nacional.


2016 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2016 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in Santiago del Estero on 3 April 2016.


2016 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, MotoGP
Due to tyre safety concerns, the race distance was shortened from 25 to 20 laps with a compulsory mid-race bike change.


2016 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.


2016 Arish attack
Thirteen policemen and soldiers were killed on Saturday night March 20, 2016 in an attack that targeted a security checkpoint in Sinai's Al-Arish. The Ministry of Interior announced that a mortar attack targeted Al-Safa checkpoint, killing two police officers, a policeman and 10 soldiers.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case
The 2016 Ariyalur gang rape refers to the gang rape and murder of a pregnant 17-year-old minor Dalit girl, Nandhini, by a Hindu Munnani Union secretary and three of his friends in December 2016 in Ariyalur District. The men gang raped her and pulled out the fetus from her womb after cutting her genitalia with a blade. Nandhini died at the spot due to excessive bleeding. The men then threw her body into a nearby well. Her body was found in the well with her hands tied in a decomposed state, stripped of her clothes and jewellery.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case
Police reports revealed that the Hindu Munnani Union Secretary was irked at Nandhini, a lower-caste Dalit girl, insisting on marrying her after she got pregnant with him after being in a relationship with her for a year. He was also pressuring her to go for an abortion before the incident. He attempted suicide by drinking poison while he was being traced for the crime and later confessed his crimes to the village administrative officer.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case
All the men involved in the crime were arrested under the Goondas Act.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Background, Caste division
Nandhni, aged 17, belonged to the Sirukadambur village in Ariyalur district. She belonged to the Dalit Community. The family resides in the 'colony' in the village of Sirukadambur, a community planned specifically for the Dalits. Caste-based segregation is common in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Yellow flags with mango icons, signaling solidarity for the Vanniyar-dominated Pattali Makkal Katchi, decorate homes on the Vanniyar side of the village, which has about 3000 households. While the 300 Dalit families reside in either government-sponsored households or huts made of dried coconut leaves, the support of the Dalits is spread among the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Background, Relationship with Manikandan
Nandini studied up to class 8, helping her family with construction work, primarily concrete laying, taking home ₹50 to ₹100 a day. Borrowing a mobile from her financially and caste-privileged friends, she spent a long time talking to Manikandan, moving on to a year-long relationship. Manikandan, aged 26, belonged to the dominant caste Vanniyar community, he was also a Hindu Munnani Union Secretary, who studied up to 10th standard and oversaw concrete laying work under the direction of the local leader of the Hindu Munnani, a fringe group formed in 1980. As they worked together, they went into a relationship.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Background, Relationship with Manikandan
Manikandan's neighbor claimed he used to drop her in home after work during late nights and she also a waited outside the Dalit toilet outhouse to talk with him. Manikandan is also an individual with a criminal record with several lawsuits targeting him, including vandalization of 2 Churches and being a nuisance to the Public.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Timeline of events
29 December 2016, Nandini went missing. On the night at about 8:30 p.m of the same day, Nandhini's mother's relative received a call from a person who told he was from Vellur and Nandhini was in his custody. She also mentioned that she had doubt on Manikandan in the complaint. The Police summoned Manikandan, but he refused any involvement, and the local sub-inspector allowed him to go.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Timeline of events
30 December 2016, Nandhini's family files a kidnap complaint, her mother made a complaint that "Manikandan belonging to the Hindu Munnani kidnapped her daughter"  but the police instead told her to make a complaint that "her daughter was missing". The police lodged a "missing" complaint. This is in breach of Section 361 of the Indian Penal Code, which explicitly specifies that if a minor is taken away without any of the proper permission of their guardian, the child is considered to be kidnapped.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Timeline of events
5 January 2017, The police registers FIR and begin the inquiry. Devi, a friend of the Nandhini, informs the police about relationship between Nandhini and Manikandan and that Nandhini was pregnant. Manikandan was called by the Irumbulikurichi police for an inquiry on 5 January, but after a number of hours two members of his village signed witnesses on behalf of him and he was allowed to go. The family accused the Hindu Munnani district District Organiser of using his political clout to get the police to let Manikandan go home. The next day, Manikandan went into hiding.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Timeline of events
9 January 2017, The Police starts investigation on the friends of Manikandan.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Timeline of events
12 January 2017, Manikhandan is admitted to the hospital after he consumed poison. Manikandan had attempted suicide by ingesting poison in a cashew forest in the village of Kodukkur. The Kuvagam police station filed a case and obtained Manikandan 's confession, where he confessed that he had tried to commit suicide because was being tracked back to the murder of Nandhini.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Timeline of events
14 January 2017, Manikandan reveals that he killed Nandhini in an extrajudicial statement to the Village Administrative Officer. Nandhini's naked body was discovered in a well in the village of Kilmaligai, with her clothing and jewels stripped off and her hands tied. Nandini's family members were called to identify the body and they confirmed it.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Incident
Police Investigations on the Hindu Munnani Union Secretary after they found Nandini's body on 14 January reported that Nandini wanted Manikandan to marry her following her pregnancy while he pressured her to get an abortion. He was not really willing to marry her because she from the Paraiyar caste, a Dalit community. Nandhini stormed out of her house because it was hard to conceal her conception from her family.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Incident
The Police also revealed that she was abducted by Manikandan, the prime accused. Three days later, she was raped by him and his three mates. Later the men cut her genitalia with a blade and pulled out the foetus from her womb, due to excessive bleeding Nandini died on the spot. The men tied her hands, then tied her body with a stone and tossed it into a nearby well. In order to avoid further suspicion, they killed a dog and put its body in the same well.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Incident
The partly decomposed body of Nandhini was discovered in the dry village of Sirukadambur on 14 January. She was found with her hands tied at her back and her clothes and jewellery stripped off.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Autopsy
Post-mortem of Nandhini's body was conducted in the Ariyalur Government hospital. The Autopsy results revealed that Nandhini was raped and murdered. On the basis of a post-mortem examination, which describes the level of the body's decay, the police said that her death happened two weeks before the corpse was discovered and that she had not been kept in unlawful detention. The activists and the victim's family were not persuaded by the reports. Advocate Sasikumar, an Ariyalur activist who had assembled a fact-finding committee, claimed that Nandhini had been seen with Manikandan till 3 January. The family claimed that the police were attempting to fix the death date as 29 December in order to cover up their inability to track down the victim.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Arrests
According to the DSP counter-affidavit, on 14 January, Manikandan surrendered to the Village Administrative Officer and admitted to his crimes. Manikandan was arrested on Goondas act and was jailed at Trichy Central prison. Three of Manikandan's friends were arrested on 15 January 2017.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Reactions
The hashtag #Justice4Nandhini was trended on social media by thousands of people.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Reactions
District secretary of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Chinnadurai said that "there is no doubt that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Hindu Munnani are behind this".


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Reactions
The Tamil Nadu Untouchability eradication front said that "the incident caused great turmoil throughout Tamil Nadu. But now, the police and the Bharatiya Janata Party are working together to dilute the case".


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Reactions
Actor Kamal Haasan urged justice for the gang rape and murder and also apologized for voicing his concerns late.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Reactions
Music Director G. V. Prakash Kumar also urged for the justice for the victims and proper punishment for the criminals in social media.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Reactions
The President of DMK, M. K Stalin came to the village and stated that his party would campaign for a CB-CID investigation.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Reactions
The Manithaneya Makkal Katchi demanded severe punishment for the criminals.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Controversy, Treatment by police
The family believes that one more person has also been engaged in the crime. According to the family, Hindu Munnani 's district secretary is also part of the crime because Manikandan works with him. The family also stated that several villagers alleged that the district secretary already knew about the crime in advance. The Ariyalur Police reported that there had been no proof against the District Secretary while Sasikumar, a family lawyer, asserted that the Hindu Munnani District Secretary had not been inquired at all.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Controversy, Treatment by police
Nandini's sister claimed that if the police had investigated properly when their family gave the first complaint their sister will be alive. Nandini's mother claimed that the Deputy Superintendent of Police visited her home on 16 January and ridiculed her and also said that she had not raised her daughter in a proper way.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Controversy, Treatment by police
However, a local Sub inspector told that the accused is closely linked to Hindu Munnani's district secretary who is renowned for his rowdyism. They instigate violence during church services on the excuse of defending the Hindus. As a consequence of their background of violence, they needed to deal sensitively with the situation in order to prevent more turmoil.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Court verdicts
In April 2017, the High Court of Madras ordered Criminal Investigation Department (India) (CB-CID) to examine the crime. Justice R. Mahadevan, gave the directive after seeing the girl's mother's original criminal complaint.


2016 Ariyalur gang rape case, Court verdicts
In April 2019, the Madras High Court declined to transfer the gang rape case to the CB-CID. Justice G. K. Ilanthiraiyan, instructed the police to apply Section 376 D of the Indian Penal Code to the charges and to conclude the inquiry within 6 months. The Judge gave the order on the ground that will serve no reason "at this point".


2016 Arizona Bowl
The 2016 Arizona Bowl (known as the 2016 NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl for sponsorship reasons) was a postseason college football bowl game played between the South Alabama Jaguars and the Air Force Falcons played on December 30, 2016, at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona. It was the second edition of the Arizona Bowl and the final game of the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season for both teams.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season
The 2016 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 97th in the National Football League, their 118th overall, their 29th in Arizona, their 11th at University of Phoenix Stadium and their fourth under head coach Bruce Arians.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season
In free agency, they signed veteran defensive back Tyvon Branch and veteran lineman Evan Mathis, while re-signing several key players. They traded for Chandler Jones from the New England Patriots, sending Jonathan Cooper and a late second-round pick to New England.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season
The Cardinals came into the 2016 season with expectations of improving on their 2015 campaign and reaching the Super Bowl. However, after a 1–3 start, they suffered injuries to quarterback Carson Palmer and most of the offensive line. On October 23, the Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks played out a 6–6 tie; this was the Cardinals' first tie since 1986 when they were the St. Louis Cardinals. It was also the lowest-scoring NFL tie since overtime was introduced in 1974. The Cardinals were eliminated from playoff contention in Week 15 after a loss to the New Orleans Saints.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season
Despite winning their final two games, the Cardinals ended the season with a losing record at 7–8–1. Because the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series, their first title in 108 years, the Cardinals also finished the season with the longest active championship drought in the four major American professional sports, with their last championship in 1947 as the Chicago Cardinals.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New England Patriots
With Patriots quarterback Tom Brady suspended and Jimmy Garoppolo starting, the Cardinals were huge favorites to win. The game was close, but was lost last minute, with a missed game-winning Cardinals field goal.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Jets
This was the Cardinals' first win over the Jets since 1975, when the Cardinals were based in St. Louis, Missouri.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Seattle Seahawks
Cardinals placekicker Chandler Catanzaro and Seahawks placekicker Steven Hauschka each miss game winning field goals as the game finishes in a 6-6 tie and the Cardinals earn their first tie since the 1986 season.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Carolina Panthers
In a rematch of the NFC championship, the Panthers led by as much as 24 points until Arizona ended the game by cutting the lead to 10.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Miami Dolphins
This was the Cardinals' first loss to the Dolphins since 1999.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. New Orleans Saints
With the close loss, the Cardinals were eliminated from the playoffs for the first time since 2013.


2016 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Los Angeles Rams
Despite losing running back David Johnson to a knee injury in the first quarter, Arizona still managed to blow out the Rams, 44-6 to finish the year at 7-8-1.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary
The 2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary was held on March 22 in the U.S. state of Arizona as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary
On the same day, the Democratic Party held caucuses in Idaho and Utah, while the Republican Party held primaries in two states, including their own Arizona primary and a primary in American Samoa.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
There was controversy surrounding the Arizona primary elections of 2016, specifically having to do with the decrease in polling places in Maricopa County from 200 in 2012 to only 60 in 2016, enacted by Republican officials despite the number of registered voters having increased from 300,000 in 2012 to 800,000 in 2016. This decrease in polling places was most pronounced in minority neighborhoods, most notably Latino neighborhoods, with areas like Central Phoenix having only one polling place for 108,000 voters.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
There were also reports of voters who had been previously registered coming up as unregistered or registered as an independent, making them ineligible to vote in the closed primary. Voters who did manage to vote had to stand in long lines to cast their ballots, some for as long as five hours. Additionally, voters reported being required to vote with a provisional ballot. In 2005, Arizona threw out 27,878 provisional ballots, counting only about 72.5% of the total provisional ballots reported.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
This was the first election in the state of Arizona since the 2013 Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which would have previously required states with a history of voter discrimination, including Arizona, to receive Federal approval before implementing any changes to voting laws and practices. In Maricopa County, Republican officials have conducted voter purges that disproportionately affected poor and minority areas.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
Within a day after the election took place on March 22, a petition went viral on the White House petitions site asking the Department of Justice to investigate voter suppression and election fraud in Arizona. The petition reached 100,000 signatures in 40 hours, and as of June 5, 2016, nearly 220,000 people had signed the petition. The White House responded on May 20, 2016. In addition, Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the allegations of voter suppression.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
Both the Clinton and Sanders campaigns, as well as the Democratic National Committee, sued the Arizona state government over the alleged voter suppression. The Department of Justice has since launched a federal investigation into the primary.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
A Clinton win in Arizona was expected; she had beat Barack Obama in the state eight years earlier by a similar wide margin, and she generally performed well with minority voters in the 2016 primaries. She won in counties with high populations of Hispanic voters, including the largest county Maricopa where the capital city of Phoenix is located, and she also performed well in counties with large populations of Native Americans including Apache County and Navajo County. Sanders won only in Coconino County.


2016 Arizona Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
Bernie Sanders made a late play for the state of Arizona, including airing Spanish-language ads featuring Congressman Raúl Grijalva. Hillary Clinton offset his efforts with advertising featuring former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, and airing radio ads in the Navajo language.


2016 Arizona Diamondbacks season
The Arizona Diamondbacks' 2016 season was the franchise's 19th season in Major League Baseball and their 19th season at Chase Field and in Phoenix, Arizona. The team finished at 69–93 for their third consecutive losing season, while spending a majority of the season in a back-and-forth battle with the San Diego Padres at the bottom of the NL West standings. The Diamondbacks finished in fourth place. Following the season, General Manager Dave Stewart and Manager Chip Hale were fired.


2016 Arizona Rattlers season
The 2016 Arizona Rattlers season was the twenty-fourth season for the arena football franchise in the Arena Football League. The team was coached by Kevin Guy and played their home games at Talking Stick Resort Arena. They moved to the Indoor Football League after the season.


2016 Arizona Rattlers season, Schedule, Regular season
The 2016 regular season schedule was released on December 10, 2015.


2016 Arizona Rattlers season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated August 12, 201625 Active, 22 Inactive


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary
The 2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary took place on March 22 in the U.S. state of Arizona as one of the Republican Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Despite a late challenge by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Donald Trump won the primary and netted all 58 delegates in the winner-take-all contest. On the same day were held Democratic and Green primaries in Arizona, as well as Republican and Democratic caucuses in Utah and Idaho Democratic caucus, so the day was dubbed "Western Tuesday" by media.


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
There was controversy surrounding the Arizona primary elections of 2016, specifically having to do with the decrease in polling places in Maricopa County from 200 in 2012 to only 60 in 2016, despite the number of registered voters having increased from 300,000 in 2012 to 800,000 in 2016. This decrease in polling places was most pronounced in minority neighborhoods, most notably Latino neighborhoods, with areas like Central Phoenix having only one polling place for 108,000 voters.


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
There were also reports of voters who had been previously registered coming up as unregistered or registered as an independent, making them ineligible to vote in the closed primary. Voters who did manage to vote had to stand in long lines to cast their ballots, some for as long as five hours. Additionally, voters reported being required to vote with a provisional ballot. In 2005, Arizona threw out 27,878 provisional ballots, counting only about 72.5% of the total provisional ballots reported.


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
Taking into account the effects of the Supreme Court's "gutting of the Voting Rights Act", it's unknown what percentage of the provisional ballots were counted in 2016. This was the first election in the state of Arizona since the 2013 Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which would have previously required states with a history of voter discrimination, including Arizona, to receive Federal approval before implementing any changes to voting laws and practices.


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
Within a day after the election took place on March 22, a petition went viral on the White House petitions site asking the Department of Justice to investigate voter suppression and election fraud in Arizona. The petition reached 100,000 signatures in 40 hours, and as of June 5, 2016, nearly 220,000 people had signed the petition. The White House responded on May 20, 2016. In addition, Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the allegations of voter suppression.


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary, Voter suppression controversy
The Department of Justice has since launched a federal investigation into the primary.


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary, Analysis
Donald Trump won Arizona decisively, netting all 58 delegates and carrying all counties in the state but two. As The New York Times described, "Mr. Trump proved his appeal among immigration hard-liners, who make up a large bloc of Republicans in the border state."


2016 Arizona Republican presidential primary, Analysis
Trump won the populous cities of Phoenix in Maricopa County, and Tucson in Pima County. He enjoyed support from former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, both of whom hold a hard-line stance against immigration. As Eric Bradner of CNN described, "Their decision to side with Trump, and the size of his win, underscores the potency of Trump's build-a-wall plan with the Republican base."


2016 Arizona State Sun Devils football team
The 2016 Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Todd Graham and played their home games at Sun Devil Stadium. They were a member of the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference. They started the season 5-1, and needed to win one more game to become bowl eligible. However, they lost each of their last six games and did not qualify to play in a bowl game. The low point came in their season finale against in-state rival Arizona. With bowl eligibility on the line, the Sun Devils gave up 511 rushing yards in their 56-35 loss. They finished the season 5–7, 2–7 in Pac-12 play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the South Division.


2016 Arizona United SC season
The 2016 Arizona United SC season is the club's third season of United Soccer League play.


2016 Arizona United SC season, Friendlies
All times from this point are on Mountain Standard Time (UTC−07:00)


2016 Arizona United SC season, USL
All times from this point on Mountain Standard Time (UTC−07:00)


2016 Arizona Wildcats baseball team
The 2016 Arizona Wildcats baseball team represented the University of Arizona in the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Wildcats played their home games at Hi Corbett Field, off campus in Tucson, Arizona. Jay Johnson was in his first season as Arizona Wildcats baseball head coach. Johnson was in his fourth year as a head coach.


2016 Arizona Wildcats 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 Arizona Wildcats football team
The 2016 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the 2016 season. The season was the Wildcats's 117th overall, 39th as a member of the Pac-12 Conference, and its sixth within the Pac-12 South Division. The team played their home games at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona for the 88th straight year. They were led by fifth-year head coach Rich Rodriguez. They finished the season 3–9, 1–8 in Pac-12 play to finish in last place in the South Division.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Previous season and offseason
The Arizona Wildcats finished the 2015 season with a 7–6 (3–6 Pac-12) record, fifth in the Pac-12 standings (behind with co-Pac-12 South Champions USC and Utah and behind with UCLA and Arizona State) and as the 2015 New Mexico Bowl Champions. Despite a plague of injuries on offense and defense, with over 23 starters missing significant playing time due to injury and 30 freshmen seeing meaningful playing time, head coach Rich Rodriguez led the Wildcats to a 7+ win season for the 2nd time and a bowl game for the 4th time in his 4th as the Arizona head coach. The Wildcats concluded their season with an improbable victory at the 2015 New Mexico Bowl against New Mexico; 45–37 victory over the Lobos.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Draft picks
The NFL Draft will take place from April 28 through 30, 2016 and will be hosted by the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, IL. The two following members of 2015 Arizona Wildcats football team were selected in the 2016 NFL Draft.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Departures
The Wildcats would lose twenty-one senior football players to graduation as well as two junior football players (Junior linebacker and 2014 Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, Scooby Wright and unanimous first team All-American junior wide receiver Cayleb Jones) who would choose to forego their senior season in pursuit of an earlier NFL career. The Wildcats would lose six more players from the 2015 team due to various reasons (transfers and withdrawals will be filled out once spring practice occurs). Notable departures from the 2015 squad included.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Transfers
In addition to the 2016 recruiting class, Arizona added two transfer football players in 2016 season. Linebacker Michael Barton transferred to Arizona in January from California. As a graduate transfer, Barton is immediately eligible to play in 2016, and he will have 1 year of his eligibility remaining. In 2011, Barton was a 4-star recruit out of De LaSalle High School in Concord, CA.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Transfers
Wide receiver Zach Benjamin transferred to Arizona in May from Florida. Benjamin is immediately eligible to play in 2016, and he will have 2 years of eligibility remaining. In 2013, Benjamin was a 3-star recruit out of De LaSalle High School in Tampa, FL.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Recruiting, Position key
Arizona inked two junior college transfer players in February 2016, including  2-star walk-on safety Jalen Jenkins (Mesa CC) and 2-star wide receiver Shawn Poindexter (Glendale CC). All junior college transfers will enroll at Arizona in February 2016, participate in spring practice and be eligible to play in 2016.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Recruiting, Position key
Four freshmen signed financial aid agreements with Arizona in 2015 and will join with the junior college transfer as January 2016 enrollees. Financial aid agreements are binding on schools but non-binding on players. Early freshmen enrollees include 4-star offensive guard Michael Eletise (Kaiser) and 4-star quarterback Khalil Tate (Junipero Serra). Additionally, 4-star inside linebacker Kahi Neves (Brighton) expected to sign a financial aid agreement and enroll in January 2016.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Recruiting, Position key
National Signing Day is February 3, 2016. The incoming players listed below include the three junior college transfers that have signed binding letters of intent during the junior college transfer signing period, and the two incoming freshmen who have signed financial aid agreements to enroll in January 2016.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Recruiting, Position key
The Wildcats would go on to land another top 10 recruiting class in 2016 (#44 by Scout, #51 by Rivals, #45 by ESPN, and #43 by 247). The Wildcats has finish another top 10 in the Pac-12 recruitment class (#No. 9 by 247, Scout and ESPN, and #No.10 by Rivals)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, 2016 Spring football practice
The 2016 Wildcats had spring practice from February 12, 2016 to March 25, 2016.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, 2016 returning missionaries
The returning missionaries will be filled in when national signing day occurs. Arizona had seven returning players on offense, five on defense and five on special teams that started games in 2015.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, 2016 returning missionaries
† Indicates player was a starter in 2015 but missed all of 2016 due to injury.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Preseason, Fall camp
Pac-12 media days are set for July 14–15 in Hollywood, California. Prior to media days,   The Wildcats were also picked by the Pac-12 media to finish fourth at South Division in the conference standings and received 87 first place votes, with the remainder going to top-picked UCLA in the South Division.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule
Arizona announced its 2016 football schedule on November 24, 2015. The 2016 schedule consists of 7 home, 4 away, and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. Arizona will face all five Southern Division opponents: Arizona State, Colorado, UCLA, USC and Utah. They will also face four Northern Division opponents: Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, and Washington State. Arizona is not scheduled to play Pac-12 North opponents California or Oregon.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule
The team will scheduled to play three non-conference games, two home games against Hawaii of the MWC,   Grambling State of the FCS' SWAC and travel to Glendale, AZ to play BYU of the (NCAA Division I FBS independent) for the Cactus Kickoff at University of Phoenix Stadium, a non—conference game at a neutral site one neutral site game.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
BYU – M. Carter (13 CAR, 43 YDS, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona – N. Wilson (17 CAR, 138 YDS, 2 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona played their home opener against Grambling State, which was the Wildcats' first home game since the 2011–2013's expansion to over 56,000 in Tucson. This was the first-ever meeting between the two teams. (Arizona attempted to hire legendary longtime Grambling head coach Eddie Robinson in 1968, which would have made him the first African American head coach of an NCAA Division I-A football program at a predominantly White college, but Robinson declined the offer.)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Grambling opened the 2015 season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference and finished the 2015 season with a 9–3 (6–0 SWAC) record and ranked #21 in the final regular season FCS poll, with a 73–14 loss at Cal. The Tigers then lost to Bethune-Cookman before winning nine straight games to reach the SWAC championship game, which they lost to Alcorn State.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Brandon Dawkins, starting after Anu Solomon hurt his knee during practice Wednesday, ran for two touchdowns and threw for another, all in the second half, and Arizona rallied from an 18-point deficit and escaped with a 31–21 victory.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The Wildcats (1–1), 45-point favorites, trailed 21–3 at halftime and looked in danger of their first-ever loss to an FCS school.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
But the Tigers (1–1), who lost quarterback DeVante Kincade (a transfer from Ole Miss) to injury late in the first half, committed six second-half turnovers, four of them in a row in the third quarter. Backup Trevon Cherry threw three interceptions and fumbled the ball away once.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Dawkins, a redshirt sophomore, completed 15 of 29 passes for 223 yards and gained 97 yards in 16 carries. He scored on runs of 21 and 2 yards and threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Trey Griffey. Nick Wilson rushed for 116 yards, including an 11-yard TD run.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Kincade completed 15 of 19 passes for 193 yards and two scores before leaving with a leg injury with 2:38 to play in the second quarter. Grambling's Chad Williams caught 13 passes for 152 yards. (Kincade was once a highly ranked three-star prospect, the composite 14th-best dual-threat QB in the nation. He ended up going to Ole Miss, spending two years with the Rebels (11 games, 37 rushes, 35 passing attempts), but transferred to Grambling after the 2015 season.)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Cody Ippolito recovered two fumbles, both leading to Arizona touchdowns; later in the fourth quarter, Ippolito was ejected after the officials ruled that he targeted Cherry. Ippolito's helmet contacted Cherry's chin after he released a pass.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The Tigers took the opening kickoff and went 81 yards in seven plays, Kincade throwing a 2-yard touchdown pass to Verlan Hunter.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The Wildcats had Grambling pinned in a third-and-29 situation at the Tigers 17 when Kincade threw short to Martez Carter, who raced down the sideline 49 yards to the 34. Six plays later, Kincade threw 26 yards to Devohn Lindsey for a touchdown that made it 14–0 with 11:55 left in the half.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Dawkins’ 42-yard run highlighted a drive to the Grambling 6 but, on fourth-and-1, Wilson was hit in the backfield and fumbled the ball away.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
A 70-yard pass from Dawkins to Samajie Grant led to Arizona's only first-half points, Josh Pollock's 31-yard field goal.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona improved to 5–0 in home openers under coach Rodriguez. "I just love stress," he said. "Let's have a stressful game against a I-AA. Give them credit. Their coaching staff did a great job. They played really hard. Their skill players, particularly their quarterback and their running back, were every bit as good as I thought. They outplayed us for a large part of the game… At halftime, I wasn’t going to scream and yell… We just challenged them to see what they’re made of a little bit. Go out and execute, take pride in our conditioning. It was a battle the whole day."


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Grambling's legendary World Famed Tiger Band performed with the Arizona marching band for the National Anthem, and also during the halftime show in Tucson. Both bands famously performed for the first NFL Super Bowl in 1967.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Grambling State – T. Cherry (16–25, 209 YDS, 3 INT)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Grambling State – M. Carter (13 CAR, 43 YDS, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The last time these two teams met was 1998. Arizona leads the all-time series 4–0 against the Warriors. Former Hawai'i quarterback Nick Rolovich enters his first season as head coach. Hawai'i opens its season on Aug. 27 against Cal in Sydney, Australia. Arizona will be looking to get consecutive wins over Hawaii for the first time since 1951–52, and will be hoping to get their fifth win of the season in the series all time. In 1998, UofA won the previous meeting over Hawaii 28–6 in Honolulu.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Hawaii – D. Brown (10–18, 144 YDS)  I. Woolsey (11/25, 117 YDS, 1 TD,  1 INT)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Hawaii –  S. Lakalaka (16 CAR, 63 Yards, 2 TDS)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona-  J. J. Taylor (18 CAR, 168 Yards, 1 TD)  B. Dawkins (15 CAR, 118 Yards, 3 TDS)  T. Johnson (2 CAR,  27 Yards, 1 TDS)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Hawaii –  J. Ursua (5 REC, 83 Yards, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The Wildcats open conference play at home against the Huskies for the 32nd time. In 2015, UA lost in Seattle 49–3. UA won in 2014 in Tucson. Washington leads the all-time series 19–11–1.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Washington – J. Browning (14–21, 160 Yards, 2 TDS, INT)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona – B. Dawkins (19–31, 167 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Washington – L. Coleman (11 CAR, 181 YDS, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona – B. Dawkins (13 CAR, 176 YDS, 2 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The Wildcats first road conference game is against UCLA for the 40th time. Arizona will be looking to get their first road win in Pasadena since 2010. The Bruins won in Tucson in 2015 and lead the all-time series 22–15–2. UA has lost four in a row to the Bruins.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
UCLA – N. Starks (17 CAR, 80 YDS, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona – S. Brown (4 REC, 50 YDS, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
UCLA – K. Walker III (4 REC, 114 YDS, 2 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona will visit Utah for the 92nd time in Salt Lake City, UT. Arizona will be looking to get consecutive wins over Utah for the first time since 1951–52, and will be hoping to get their five win in five seasons in the series all time. Arizona beat the then-10th-ranked Utes in Tucson in double-overtime in 2015, ensuring the Wildcats a six-win season and bowl eligibility. Arizona has won four in a row in the series and is 4–1 against the Utes since they joined the Pac-12 in 2011. Utah leads the all-time series 20–19–2.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona – B. Dawkins (11–20, 243 YDS, 1 TD, 2 INTs)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona – B. Dawkins (14 CAR, 49 YDS, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Utah – A. Shyne (19 CAR, 101 YDS, 1 TD)


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The Wildcats have lost three in a row to the Trojans but all three games were close. UA lost 38–30 in Los Angeles in 2015, 28–26 in Tucson in 2014 and 38–31 in L.A. 2013. Arizona's last win in the series came in 2012 in Tucson. USC leads the all-time series 31–8.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Stanford leads the all-time series 15–14 after a 55–17 win in 2015. Arizona has lost four in a row and six of the last seven to the Cardinal. Arizona will enter their eighth game of the season against their Pac-12 North inter-divisional opponent, Stanford for the 37th time in Tucson, and the Wildcats will be hoping to get their first win over the Stanford since 1996.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona lost last season in Tucson and two of three but has won six of eight in the series. UA has won four in a row in Pullman against the Cougars. UA leads the all-time series 26–15. Arizona will visit the Washington State for the 42nd time.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
The 90th Territorial Cup game will be hosting their biggest rivals, Arizona State on senior night in Tucson on the Friday of Thanksgiving weekend. Arizona leads the all-time series 48–40–1. ASU won the 2015 game in Tempe and three of four in the series since Todd Graham and Rich Rodriguez were hired.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Arizona did not throw a pass in the second half.


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Regular season, Schedule, Game summaries
Samajie Grant 176 rushing yards, Zach Green 126 rushing yards, school-record 511 rushing yards


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, Statistics, Defense
Key: POS: Position, SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, Yards: Yards, TDS: Touchdowns, BU: Passes Broken Up, PD: Passes Defended, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FF: Forced Fumbles, FR: Fumbles Recovered, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties


2016 Arizona Wildcats football team, NFL Draft, 2017 NFL Draft
The 2017 NFL Draft was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia on April 27 through April 29, 2017. The following Arizona players were either selected or signed as free agents following the draft.


2016 Arizona elections
The general election was held in the U.S. state of Arizona on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election. Arizona voters chose 11 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. Also three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission were up for election, as well as all of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives and one seat for the United States Senate. Primary elections were held in August 2016.


2016 Arizona elections, Corporation Commission
Three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission were up for election. Republican Brenda Burns chose not to run for re-election to a second term in office. Republican Gary Pierce was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election to a third term in office.


2016 Arizona elections, Corporation Commission, Democratic primary
Because only 2 Democratic candidates ran for the Corporation Commission, no Democratic primary was held.


2016 Arizona elections, House of Representatives
All of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2016. Republicans won 5 seats, while Democrats took 4.


2016 Arizona presidential primary
The 2016 Arizona primary took place on March 22, 2016 as part of the nominating process for the 2016 United States presidential election. Primaries were held at the same time for the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the Green Party. The Arizona primary was a closed primary, meaning that only voters registered with one of three parties were allowed to vote. Hillary Clinton was declared the winner on the Democratic side, Donald Trump won on the Republican side, and the Green party chose Jill Stein as their candidate. Arizona does not have presidential primaries. Arizona has presidential preference elections. Arizona state primaries are open, while Arizona preference elections are closed.


2016 Arizona presidential primary, Controversy and allegations of voter suppression and electoral fraud
There was controversy surrounding the Arizona primary elections of 2016, specifically having to do with the dramatic decrease in polling places from 200 in 2012 to only 60 in 2016, despite the number of registered voters having increased from 300,000 in 2012 to 800,000 in 2016. This decrease in polling places was most pronounced in minority neighborhoods, most notably Latino neighborhoods, with areas like Central Phoenix having only one polling place for 108,000 voters. There were also reports of voters who had been previously registered coming up as unregistered or registered as an independent, making them ineligible to vote. Voters who did manage to vote had to stand in long lines to cast their ballots, some for as long as 5 hours.


2016 Arizona presidential primary, Controversy and allegations of voter suppression and electoral fraud
This was the first election in the state of Arizona since the 2013 Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which would have previously required states with a history of voter discrimination, including Arizona, to receive Federal approval before implementing any changes to voting laws and practices.


2016 Arizona presidential primary, Controversy and allegations of voter suppression and electoral fraud
As a result of the controversy surrounding the Arizona primary, Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the allegations of voter suppression.


2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary
The 2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Arkansas as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.


2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary
On the same day, dubbed "Super Tuesday," Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states including their own Arkansas primary.


2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
Arkansas, the state where Hillary Clinton served as First Lady during her husband Bill Clinton’s tenure as governor, gave Clinton one of her largest victories during the course of the Democratic Primary. She swept the state among every major demographic – gender, race, income, and educational attainment. According to exit polls, 67 percent of voters in the Arkansas Democratic Primary were white and they opted for Clinton by a margin of 62–35 compared to the 27 percent of African Americans who backed Clinton by an even larger  margin of 91–6.


2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
After his landslide defeat, the Sanders campaign reported that Hillary Clinton had notched wins in southern states including Arkansas because Bernie Sanders did not compete with her, although this claim was widely debunked.


2016 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team
The 2016 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team represents the University of Arkansas in baseball at the Division I level in the NCAA for the 2016 season.


2016 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
The 2016 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Razorbacks played their home games at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville and War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. Arkansas played as a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by fourth-year head coach Bret Bielema. They finished the season 7–6, 3–5 in SEC play to finish in a tie for fifth place in the Western Division. They were invited to the Belk Bowl where they lost to Virginia Tech, in a game where the Razorbacks blew a 24-0 lead at halftime.


2016 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Schedule
Arkansas announced its 2016 football schedule on October 29, 2015. The 2016 schedule consists of 7 home games, 4 away games, and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Razorbacks will host SEC foes Alabama, Florida, LSU, and Ole Miss, and will travel to Auburn, Mississippi State, and Missouri. Arkansas played against Texas A&M for the eighth year in a row in Arlington, Texas.


2016 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Schedule
The Razorbacks will travel to Fort Worth, Texas to compete against TCU for the first time since 1991, which was the year before the Razorbacks left the Southwest Conference for the SEC. Arkansas will host the three other non–conference games; against Alcorn State from the Southwestern Conference in Little Rock, and versus Louisiana Tech from Conference USA and Texas State from the Sun Belt Conference in Fayetteville.


2016 Arkansas Republican presidential primary
The 2016 Arkansas Republican presidential primary was won by Donald Trump with a plurality 32.8% support over Senator Ted Cruz, who competed heavily in Arkansas and hailed from neighboring Texas, with 30.5% support. Trump carried men 37-29 and women 31–30, and carried older voters while Cruz won with millennials. Trump dominated among the 55% who were not college graduates, and earned 39% from whites without a college degree. Trump won with 39% among veterans, a key demographic for Republican candidates in the South, and tied Evangelical Christian voters with Cruz.


2016 Arkansas State Red Wolves football team
The 2016 Arkansas State Red Wolves football team represented Arkansas State Red Wolves in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Red Wolves played their home games at Centennial Bank Stadium in Jonesboro, Arkansas and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Blake Anderson.


2016 Arkansas State Red Wolves football team, Schedule
Arkansas State announced its 2016 football schedule on March 3, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Red Wolves will host Sun Belt foes Georgia Southern, Louisiana–Monroe, New Mexico State, and South Alabama, and will travel to Georgia State, Louisiana–Lafayette, Texas State, and Troy. Arkansas State will skip out on two Sun Belt teams this season, Appalachian State and Idaho.


2016 Arkansas State Red Wolves football team, Schedule
The team will play four non–conference games, two home games against Central Arkansas from the Southland Conference and Toledo from the Mid-American Conference (MAC), and two road games against Auburn from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Utah State from the Mountain West Conference.


2016 Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions football team
The 2016 Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions football team represented the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Golden Lions were led by ninth-year head coach Monte Coleman and played their home games at Golden Lion Stadium as a member of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). They finished the season 1–10, 1–8 in SWAC play to finish in last place in the West Division.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship
The 2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship is the 116th official edition of the Armagh GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior club in County Armagh. The tournament consists of 16 teams with the winner going on to represent Armagh in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship has a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format. Generally, any team to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship
Crossmaglen Rangers are the defending champions after they defeated Armagh Harps 2-22 to 0-10 in the 2015 final, however they were knocked out at the Semi-Final stage this season by close rivals St. Patrick's Cullyhanna. This was only Crossmaglen's second loss in 20 years of Armagh Senior championship football.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship
This was Clann Éireann, Madden and Grange's return to the senior grade.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship
Forkhill and Grange were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2017 after finishing 7th and 8th respectively in this year's Senior 'B' Football League. They will be replaced next year by Whitecross and Culloville Blues after they claimed the 2016 I.F.C. and I.A.F.L. titles respectively.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship
On 16 October 2016, Maghery Sean MacDermott's claimed their first ever S.F.C. title when defeating St. Patrick's Cullyhanna in the Athletic Grounds on a score line of 1-13 to 0-13.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship, Group stage, Round 1
All 16 teams play in this round. The 8 winners progress to Round 2A while the 8 losers progress to Round 2B.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship, Group stage, Round 2, Round 2A
The 8 winners from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners enter the draw for the Quarter Finals while the 4 losers play in Round 3.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship, Group stage, Round 2, Round 2B
The 8 losers from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners advance to Round 3 while the 4 losers exit the Championship.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship, Group stage, Round 3
The 4 losers from Round 2A play the 4 winners from Round 2B. The 4 winners enter the draw for the Quarter-Finals.


2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship, Knock-Out Stage, Quarter-Finals
The four winners from Round 2A play the four winners from Round 3. The 4 winners advance to the semi-finals.


2016 Armed Forces Bowl
The 2016 Armed Forces Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 23, 2016 at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The fourteenth annual edition of the Armed Forces Bowl was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season and was sponsored by aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin; it was officially known as the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.


2016 Armed Forces Bowl, Team selection
The game featured the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs against the Navy Midshipmen.


2016 Armed Forces Bowl, Team selection
This was the third meeting between the schools, with Navy winning both previous ones. The most recent meeting was on September 18, 2010, where the Midshipmen defeated the Bulldogs by a score of 37–23.


2016 Armenian Cup Final
The 2016 Armenian Cup Final was the 25th Armenian Cup Final, and the final match of the 2015–16 Armenian Cup. It was played at the Republican Stadium in Yerevan, Armenia, on 4 May 2016, and was contested by Banants and Mika.


2016 Armenian Cup Final
It was both Banants and Mika's eighth Cup final appearance, with Mika suffering deafest in the previous years final to Pyunik, with Banants last appearance coming in 2010 and also ending in defeat to Pyunik. Banants won 2–0, with both goals coming in the first-half, thanks to a Laércio penalty and a Atsamaz Burayev strike.


2016 Armenian local elections
Local elections were held in Armenia on 17 April 2016.


2016 Army Black Knights football team
The 2016 Army Black Knights football team represented the United States Military Academy as an independent in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Black Knights were led by third-year head coach Jeff Monken and played their home games at Michie Stadium. They finished the season 8–5 and defeated Navy for the first time since 2001 in the Army–Navy Game. They were invited to the Heart of Dallas Bowl where they defeated North Texas in overtime.


2016 Army United F.C. season
The 2016 season is Army United's 14th season in the Thai Premier League on 1996–1999, 2006–2008 and since 2010.


2016 Army United F.C. season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Army United F.C. season, Foreign Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Army United F.C. season, Transfers
First Thai footballer's market is opening on December 27, 2015 to January 28, 2016Second Thai footballer's market is opening on June 3, 2016 to June 30, 2016


2016 Arnold Palmer Cup
The 2016 Arnold Palmer Cup was held from 24–26 June 2016 at Formby Golf Club in Formby, Merseyside, England. Europe won 181⁄2 to 111⁄2.


2016 Arnold Palmer Cup, Format
On Friday, there were five matches of foursomes in the morning, followed by five four-ball matches in the afternoon. Ten singles matches were played on Saturday, and ten more on Sunday. In all, 30 matches were played.


2016 Arnold Palmer Cup, Format
Each of the 30 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole, each side earned half a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 151⁄2 points won the competition.


2016 Arnold Palmer Cup, Teams
Ten college golfers from the United States and Europe participated in the event plus a non-playing head coach and assistant coach for each team.


2016 Arnold Palmer Cup, Michael Carter award
The Michael Carter Award winners were Robin Petersson and Charlie Danielson.


2016 Arutanga-Reureu-Nikaupara by-election
A by-election will be held in the Cook Islands constituency of Arutanga-Reureu-Nikaupara on 13 October 2016. The by-election was called after One Cook Islands Movement leader Teina Bishop was convicted of corruption as a Minister in July 2016.


2016 Arutanga-Reureu-Nikaupara by-election
The by-election was won by One Cook Islands candidate Pumati Israela.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament
The 2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament for boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were held from March 25 to April 2, 2016 at the Tangshan Jiujiang Sport Center in Qian'an, China. 279 boxers entered the qualification tournament.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Light flyweight (49 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Flyweight (52 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Bantamweight (56 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Lightweight (60 kg)
The top three boxer qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Light welterweight (64 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Welterweight (69 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Middleweight (75 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Light heavyweight (81 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Results, Men, Heavyweight (91 kg)
The top three boxers qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics.