2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July
Hyun-jin Ryu made his first start since 2014 on July 7 against the San Diego Padres and allowed six runs in 4+2⁄3 innings. Yasmani Grandal hit three home runs on July 8 as the Dodgers won 10–6 over the Padres. He was the third catcher in history with five hits in a three-homer game (Victor Martinez in 2004 and Walker Cooper in 1949) and the third Dodger catcher to ever have three homers in a game (Mike Piazza in 1996 and Roy Campanella in 1950).


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July
McCarthy picked up his second win and the Dodgers bullpen pitched four scoreless innings in a 4–3 win the next game. Adam Liberatore set the Dodgers franchise record with his 24th consecutive scoreless appearance. Kenta Maeda struck out a season-high 13 batters in seven innings while Adrián González homered, and the Dodgers ended the first half of the season with a 3–1 win over the Padres on July 10.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July
Corey Seager and Kenley Jansen both participated in the All-Star Game on July 12 and Seager also took part in the Home Run Derby. After the break, the team took on the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. Chris Taylor had six RBI and hit a grand slam for his first career homer in the Dodgers 13–7 win. Jansen blew a save the next day and the Dodgers lost 2–1 in 12 innings. Jake Lamb homered as the Diamondbacks won the series 6–5.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July
Chase Utley hit a leadoff homer and drove in 3 runs as the Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 8–4 at Nationals Park on July 19. The next day, Bryce Harper hit his 20th homer of the season and the Nationals pounded the Dodgers 8–1. Justin Turner hit two home runs as the Dodgers handed Stephen Strasburg his first loss of the season (after 13 wins), 6–3. After a blown save by Jansen, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Dodgers on a walk-off homer by Matt Adams in the 16th inning, 4–3 at Busch Stadium. The Dodgers picked up to win the next game, 7–2. They finished off the road trip with a 9–6 victory highlighted by a grand slam by Adrián González in the 1st inning.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, July
Bud Norris allowed only two runs in seven innings, out dueling Tampa Bay Rays starter Chris Archer in a 3–2 win at Dodger Stadium on July 26. A two-run homer by Evan Longoria was the key blow as the Rays, behind Matt Moore won the next game, 3–1. The Dodgers got into a wild game with the Diamondbacks on July 29, giving up seven runs in the top of the seventh inning and then answering back with five in the bottom of the inning, led by two-run homers by Joc Pederson and Chase Utley. They wound up winning 9–7. The offense did not show up the next day and the Diamondbacks won 4–2. Despite losing starter Bud Norris to an injury two batters into the next game, the Dodgers, thanks to homers by Grandal, Seager and Pederson, beat the Diamondbacks 14–3 to end the month of July.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
The Dodgers began August by making a flurry of trades which sent a number of minor leaguers for outfielder Josh Reddick, starting pitcher Rich Hill and relievers Jesse Chavez and Josh Fields. These moves led to the surprise demotion of outfielder Yasiel Puig to the minors. However, the new look team had trouble in the next series at Coors Field. In the opener, Carlos González was 3-for-5 with two doubles and four RBI as the Colorado Rockies beat the Dodgers 7–3.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
Rookie Brock Stewart made his second spot start in the next game and was pounded, allowing four home runs and nine runs overall, in a 12–2 loss. They avoided the road sweep thanks to Kenta Maeda pitching 5+2⁄3 solid innings for his 10th win, the 13th Dodger rookie pitcher with double digit wins. Corey Seager tied Hanley Ramírez for the Los Angeles Dodgers single-season record for home runs by a shortstop with his 19th in the 4–2 win.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
Back home for a rare series against the Boston Red Sox, the Dodgers were shut out by knuckleball pitcher Steven Wright and lost 9–0. Ross Stripling pitched five scoreless innings the next day in the Dodgers 3–0 win. Seager hit his 31st double of the season, passing Eric Karros for the Dodgers rookie record. In the next game, rookie Rob Segedin had four RBI in his MLB debut to set a franchise record and Adrián González hit his 300th career homer as the Dodgers took the series with an 8–5 win.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
Seager hit two more home runs on August 8, passing Ramírez and putting him one behind the franchise record. Julio Urías allowed three runs in five innings as the Dodgers won 9–4 over the Philadelphia Phillies. They won again the next day, 9–3, but Freddy Galvis hit a three-run homer in the series finale as the Phillies won 6–2. The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Dodgers 5–1 on August 12, thanks to first inning homers by Andrew McCutchen and Jordy Mercer.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
In the next game, seven Dodgers pitchers combined for 11 walks, the highest total by the Dodgers in a nine inning game since May 25, 2009 but Joc Pederson was 3 for 5 with a double and a homer to lead the team to an 8–4 win. Brett Anderson rejoined the Dodgers rotation on August 14, for the first time since suffering a back injury in spring training. He didn't last long, allowing two home runs and five runs in the first inning before being replaced. The Dodgers never caught up and lost 11–3 to the Pirates.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
The Dodgers went on the road to Citizens Bank Park where Chase Utley had a good game against his former team, the Philadelphia Phillies. He hit two home runs, including a grand slam, in the Dodgers 15–5 rout. González hit two homers in the next game as the Dodgers won, 7–2. Justin Turner hit a three-run homer in the next game but the Phillies came from behind, thanks to homers by Maikel Franco and Ryan Howard to win 5–4 and avoid the sweep.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
Bud Norris returned from the disabled list to start the opener of a series against the Cincinnati Reds but lasted only 3+2⁄3 innings. Joey Votto hit a three-run homer and relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen hit a two-run homer as the Reds won 9–2. Brett Anderson made his second start of the season on August 20 and again was shelled, allowing six runs in three innings before leaving because of a blister. Brandon Finnegan allowed only one hit in seven innings and the Reds routed the Dodgers 11–1.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
Julio Urías turned in his best start as a Dodger to that point in the next game, with six shutout innings, and the Dodgers won 4–0. The Dodgers won a slugfest with the Reds on August 22, 18–9. They hit seven home runs in the game, including three by Adrián González. It was the first time the visiting team at Great American Ballpark had hit seven in one game.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
The Dodgers returned home on August 23 for a key divisional series against the San Francisco Giants. Corey Seager had three hits in four at bats and Andrew Toles and Rob Segedin homered as the Dodgers roughed up Madison Bumgarner in a 9–5 win. The following day, Rich Hill made his Dodgers debut, three weeks after he was acquired in a trade, and pitched six shutout innings while Justin Turner's solo homer accounted for all the scoring in a 1–0 win. Kenley Jansen tied Jim Brewer's franchise record for strikeouts by a reliever with the 604th of his career.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
On August 25, Matt Moore came within one out of a no hitter when Corey Seager singled, but he still beat the Dodgers 4–0. Kris Bryant hit two home runs the next day as the Chicago Cubs beat the Dodgers, 6–4, in 10 innings. Seager hit his 23rd home run of the season in the following game, setting the Dodgers single-season record for home runs by a shortstop. Julio Urías recovered from a rough first inning to pitch six solid frames as the Dodgers won 3–2. An error by the Cubs in the eighth inning led to the only run of the next game as the Dodgers won 1–0.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, August
The Dodgers next traveled back to Coors Field to wrap up the month of August with a three-game series against the Rockies. The Dodgers bullpen imploded and they lost the opener 8–1. A rain out on August 30 forced the Dodgers and Rockies to play a day-night doubleheader the following day. In the opener, the Dodgers offense continued to struggle and they were routed again, 7–0. This was the first time the Rockies had shutout the Dodgers at home since August 27, 2012. In the second game, the Rockies scored five runs off of a shaky Bud Norris in the first inning but came back and won the game on a grand slam homer by Andrew Toles in the eighth inning, 10–8.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
The Dodger had 13 hits on September 2 against the San Diego Padres, including four by Howie Kendrick, but left 11 men on base and lost 4–2 with Yangervis Solarte's eighth inning homer the key blow. Rich Hill allowed only one hit in six innings the next game and Josh Reddick hit his first homer as a Dodger in  a 5–1 win. José De León struck out nine in six innings in his major league debut and Yasiel Puig and Yasmani Grandal homered as the Dodgers won the series finale 7–4.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
The Dodgers hit five homers off former teammate Zack Greinke of the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 10–2 victory on Labor Day. They won again the next day, 5–2, behind a solid start by Ross Stripling, whose 66 pitched in five innings was the fewest by a winning Dodgers starter since Greg Maddux threw 47 pitches in six innings on September 27, 2008. Puig homered again and Brock Stewart pitched five innings of one run ball as the Dodgers swept the Diamondbacks with a 3–1 win.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
Clayton Kershaw rejoined the Dodgers rotation on September 9 for the first time in two months, but only lasted three innings while allowing two runs. José Fernández struck out 14 in seven innings as the Miami Marlins beat the Dodgers 4–1 at Marlins Park. Hill was perfect through seven innings in the next game, but manager Dave Roberts made the decision to pull him from the game and bring in reliever Joe Blanton. Blanton allowed a hit to Jeff Francoeur with two outs in the eighth. Joc Pederson hit two home runs and the Dodgers won 5–0.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
José Ureña held the Dodgers to only four hits in 8+2⁄3 innings in the series finale as the Marlins won 3–0. The Dodgers next traveled to play the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. De León allowed two runs on three hits in five innings while Puig and Justin Turner homered in the 8–2 win. Jacoby Ellsbury and Didi Gregorius hit back to back home runs in the seventh inning to break open a scoreless game and the Yankees won 3–0.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
Kershaw allowed only one hit in five scoreless innings and the Dodgers scored two runs in the top of the ninth to win 2–0 over the Yankees on September 14. Hill finally allowed his first runs as a Dodger in the next game, as the Diamondbacks' Kyle Jensen took him deep in the second inning. A three-run homer by Mitch Haniger off reliever Louis Coleman put the game out of reach and the Dodgers lost 7–3 at Chase Field. Kenta Maeda out dueled Greinke the next game and the Dodgers won 3–2.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
Joc Pederson homered and the Dodgers won 6–2 the following day. Corey Seager set a new Los Angeles Dodgers record for hits by a rookie with 181. In the final game of the roadtrip, the Dodgers fell behind 7–1 after five innings but came back to tie the game with a six-run sixth inning before ultimately losing 10–9 in 12 innings.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
The Dodgers returned home for their final homestand of the regular season. Kershaw and the San Francisco Giants' Madison Bumgarner engaged in a pitching duel in the opener, with the Dodgers winning 2–1 on a walk-off double by Adrián González in the ninth. In the following game, Johnny Cueto and three relievers shut down the Dodgers and Brandon Belt and Eduardo Núñez each hit solo homers in the  2–0 Giants win.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
A three-run homer by Puig in the first inning of the third game of the series led to a 9–3 rout by the Dodgers and a commanding six game lead in the division race. Yasmani Grandal welcomed the Colorado Rockies to town by going four for four with two homers, including a grand slam in a 7–4 win. Back-to-back homers by Joc Pederson and Andre Ethier led the Dodgers to a 5–2 win the next night.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
Kershaw struck out six batters in seven scoreless innings and Josh Reddick hit a grand slam as the Dodgers rolled to a 14–1 rout over the Rockies on September 24. The team clinched its fourth consecutive division title the following day, winning 4–3 on a walk-off home run by Charlie Culberson. The Dodgers became the first National League West team to achieve that feat.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
The Dodgers began their final road trip of the season against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. Hunter Renfroe homered twice, including a grand slam, and drove in all seven runs in the Padres 7–1 victory. Renfroe hit a two-run homer the next day and the Padres won again, this time 6–5. The Dodgers offense, led by Joc Pederson's three RBI, beat the Padres 9–4 in the final game of the series, to avoid a sweep.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, September
The Dodgers traveled to AT&T Park to finish the regular season against the Giants, who scored seven runs in the sixth inning to take the opener, 9–3. The Giants also won the next game, 3–0, ensuring that the Dodgers would begin the postseason on the road. The Dodgers finished their regular season on October 2, with a 7–1 loss and a sweep at the hands of the Giants. That would be the final broadcast in the career of longtime Dodger announcer Vin Scully.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series
The Dodgers faced the Washington Nationals in the Division Series. The series began on October 7 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. Corey Seager homered in the first inning and Justin Turner launched a two-run homer in the third as the Dodgers jumped out to a 4–0 lead against Max Scherzer. Clayton Kershaw struggled through five innings but he and the Dodgers bullpen held on to give the Dodgers a 4–3 win in the game. The second game of the series was scheduled for October 8, but the game was rained out and rescheduled for the next day.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series
In game two, a three-run home run by José Lobatón off of Rich Hill in the fourth inning erased the Dodgers early two run lead and the Nationals added a few more runs off the bullpen to even the series with a 5–2 win. The Dodgers left 12 runners on base, and only had one hit in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series
In Game three, at Dodger Stadium, the Nationals scored four runs (two on a homer by Anthony Rendon) in the fourth inning off of Kenta Maeda and then blew the game open with four more runs off of Kenley Jansen in the ninth, en route to an 8–3 win. Kershaw pitched in game four on short rest, for the fourth consecutive season. Adrián González homered in the first to give the Dodgers the early lead. Kershaw struck out 11 in 6+2⁄3 innings but was replaced by relief pitchers with two outs in the seventh and the bases loaded.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series
Pedro Báez hit the only batter he faced to force in a run and then Daniel Murphy had a two-RBI single off of Luis Avilán to tie the score at 5. An RBI single by Chase Utley with two outs in the bottom of the eighth put the Dodgers back ahead and they won 6–5 to force a fifth and deciding game in the series.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series
In the fifth and final game of the series, at Nationals Park, Rich Hill on short rest struggled and didn't make it out of the third inning, but only gave up one run. Max Scherzer pitched well for the Nationals, holding the Dodgers scoreless for the first six innings. Joc Pederson hit a solo homer to lead off the seventh inning and tie the game. A two-out pinch-hit single by Carlos Ruiz off of Sammy Solis put the Dodgers ahead and Justin Turner's two-run triple extended it to 4–1.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series
A two-run homer by pinch hitter Chris Heisey off Grant Dayton in the bottom of the inning made it 4–3 and the Dodgers brought in closer Kenley Jansen to get out of the inning. Jansen threw a career-high 51 pitches in the game, working into the ninth inning. Kershaw came into the game in relief with one out in the ninth, two days after throwing 110 pitches in game four. He induced a pop up by Daniel Murphy and struck out Wilmer Difo to end the game and send the Dodgers to the Championship Series.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series
The Dodgers advanced to face the Chicago Cubs in the Championship Series. In the first game at Wrigley Field, the Cubs got to Dodgers starter Kenta Maeda early, scoring three runs in the first two innings to take a 3–0 lead. Jon Lester allowed only one run (a pinch hit home run by Andre Ethier) in his six innings. A bases loaded single by Adrián González off Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman tied the game in the top of the eighth inning but the Cubs came back in the bottom of the inning.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series
Miguel Montero hit a pinch hit grand slam off of Joe Blanton and Dexter Fowler followed it up with a solo homer of his own. The Cubs took game one 8–4. The second game was a pitchers' duel between Clayton Kershaw and Kyle Hendricks. Kershaw struck out six and only allowed two hits in seven scoreless innings while Hendricks allowed only three hits in 5+1⁄3 innings. Hendricks however allowed a solo homer to Adrián González for the only score of the game. Kenley Jansen pitched the last two innings and retired all six batters he faced to preserve the Dodgers 1–0 win, to even the series. This was the first time the Dodgers had won a Championship Series game on the road since game five of the 1988 NLCS against the Mets.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series
In game three at Dodger Stadium, Rich Hill pitched six scoreless innings, Yasmani Grandal and Justin Turner homered off of Jake Arrieta and the Dodgers cruised to a 6–0 win. Julio Urías started game four for the Dodgers, becoming the youngest pitcher to ever start a playoff game. Addison Russell and Anthony Rizzo both homered as the Cubs broke out with 13 hits in a 10–2 rout. The Dodgers committed four errors in the game, more than in any game all season and the most in a playoff game since game four of the 1974 NLCS. In the next game, Lester allowed only one run in seven innings, Russell hit a go-ahead homer off Joe Blanton in the 6th and the Cubs tagged on more runs off the bullpen to pull ahead in the series with an 8–4 win.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series
Kershaw returned to the mound in game six at Wrigley Field but was not nearly as sharp as his previous outing. He allowed five runs in five innings, including solo homers by Rizzo and Willson Contreras. Hendricks started for the Cubs and pitched 7+1⁄3 scoreless innings as the Cubs won the series with a 5–0 and head to the World Series for the first time since 1945.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting
List does not include pitchers. Stats in bold are the team leaders.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In; BB = Walks; SO = Strikeouts; SB = Stolen Bases; Avg. = Batting Average; OBP = On Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging; OPS = On Base + Slugging


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball Draft
The Dodgers selected 42 players in this draft. They received a supplementary first round pick as a result of losing pitcher Zack Greinke to free agency and acquired a compensation competitive balance pick for failing to sign pitcher Kyle Funkhouser in the 2017 Draft. From this draft class, five players have played in MLB as of the 2019 season.


2016 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball Draft
With the three first round picks, they selected  shortstop Gavin Lux from Indian Trail High School and Academy in Kenosha, Wisconsin, catcher Will Smith from the University of Louisville and pitcher Jordan Sheffield from Vanderbilt University. As of the 2021 season 14 members of this draft class have played in the majors.


2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 42nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2016.


2016 Los Angeles Kiss season
The 2016 Los Angeles Kiss season was the third and final season for the arena football franchise in the Arena Football League. The team was coached by Omarr Smith and played their home games at Honda Center.


2016 Los Angeles Kiss season, Schedule, Regular season
The 2016 regular season schedule was released on December 10, 2015.


2016 Los Angeles Kiss season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated August 6, 201626 Active, 28 Inactive


2016 Los Angeles Rams season
The 2016 Los Angeles Rams season was the franchise's 79th season in the National Football League and the fifth and final under head coach Jeff Fisher. It was the franchise's 50th season in the Greater Los Angeles Area and the first since 1994. The team returned to Los Angeles after 21 seasons in St. Louis. The Rams decided from 2016 to 2019 to return to wearing white uniforms at home in Los Angeles as a nod to Fearsome Foursome era. In Week 15 against the Seattle Seahawks, their NFC West divisional rival, the Rams wore white horns on their helmet just for the one game only, a move which would be repeated for the entire following season.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season
The 2016 season saw the Rams attempting to improve upon their 7–9 record from 2015. After a surprising 3–1 start, the Rams would massively struggle in the second half, going 1–11 in their final 12 games, en route to a 4–12 record. The Rams also went 1–7 at home in 2016, their worst home record since going 0–8 at home in their 1–15 2009 season. The Rams also missed the playoffs for the 12th straight season, the third longest current  streak in the NFL. Only the Buffalo Bills and Cleveland Browns had longer postseason droughts. The franchise also clinched its tenth straight losing season. The Rams were also the only team to lose to the San Francisco 49ers in 2016, as both wins for the 49ers were against the Rams.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season
On December 12, 2016, Fisher was fired after a 42–14 loss to the Atlanta Falcons that dropped the Rams to 4–9. John Fassel was named interim head coach and went winless over the final three games. To date, this is the last season with the Rams having a losing record. For the season, the Rams added a blue "LA" outlined in gold to their logo and gave the charging ram a smile to differentiate it from the one they had during their last sixteen seasons.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Return to Los Angeles
After receiving permission to void its lease on the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis during the 2015 season, the team officially filed an application to relocate back to Los Angeles on January 4, 2016, where it would play at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood when completed; construction began in December 2015, and the stadium opened in September 2020. In the interim, the Rams would play seven of their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and the eighth game at Twickenham Stadium in London as part of the NFL International Series. The Rams also resumed holding training camp at UC Irvine, where they had previously held training camp during the 1990s prior to the move to St. Louis.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Return to Los Angeles
The Rams competed against the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, both of whom also filed relocation requests for a joint stadium in Carson for the rights to the Los Angeles market; the Chargers received a one-year option to decide if they wanted to share the Inglewood stadium with the Rams, which they did in the following season in 2017. Had the Chargers not accepted the option, a one-year option would have been granted to the Raiders after theirs expired. The league made their decision in a special meeting on January 12; after two ballots, the Rams' proposal was accepted on a 30–2 vote.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Return to Los Angeles
The Rams' return to the Greater Los Angeles Area received extensive media coverage. The team made its first appearance on HBO's Hard Knocks, which covered training camp and preseason. Several players and their families were followed on the new E! reality series Hollywood & Football as they settled in Southern California, while the regular season was later chronicled in the Amazon Prime sports documentary series All Or Nothing.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Return to Los Angeles
The Coliseum was previously the Rams' home for 34 seasons (1946–1979); they moved to Anaheim Stadium in Orange County in 1980, and played there for fifteen seasons before the move to St. Louis in 1995.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Schedule
On November 25, 2015, the NFL announced that the Rams would play host to a then-undetermined NFC East opponent in the International Series, in the first-ever game at Twickenham Stadium in London, United Kingdom. On January 3, 2016, the New York Giants were confirmed as the Rams' opponent for this game, both teams having finished in third place in their respective divisions in the 2015 season. The game was played in Week 7 on Sunday, October 23. The kickoff time was announced on April 14, and both teams had their bye the following week.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Schedule
As a condition of the Rams' use of the Coliseum, the University of Southern California requested that the NFL not schedule any Monday night home games at the stadium, nor any home games on days after USC football games. While the team's final schedule did not contain any home Monday night games, two games were played on days following an USC home game. The Rams wore their white uniforms for all of their home games for the first time since 1971 as a nod to the Fearsome Foursome era, with the exception of wearing their throwback uniforms twice a year for home games and wearing their all-navy uniforms for the game in London.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at San Francisco 49ers
The now-Los Angeles Rams stumbled badly in their season opener, getting shut out by the host 49ers on Monday Night Football. Quarterback Case Keenum was ineffective, completing less than 50 percent of his passes (17-for-35) for 130 yards and two interceptions, while also being sacked twice. Running back Todd Gurley was also lackluster, with only 47 yards on 17 carries. Defensively, linebacker Alec Ogletree led the team with 12 tackles (11 solo) and defensive end Dominique Easley forced a fumble that was recovered by cornerback Trumaine Johnson. But the Rams came up with no sacks, and defensive tackle Aaron Donald was ejected from the game in the fourth quarter for unsportsmanlike conduct and making contact with a game official, an incident for which he later apologized.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Seattle Seahawks
Playing at home in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the first time since 1979, the Rams got the victory in a defensive battle over their NFC West rivals. Three field goals from kicker Greg Zuerlein were enough for the Rams, who played in front of a homecoming crowd of 91,046. With the win, the Rams won a regular season game in Los Angeles for the first time since 1994. Case Keenum completed 18 of 30 passes for 239 yards, and wide receiver Kenny Britt caught six passes for 94 yards.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Seattle Seahawks
Robert Quinn and William Hayes both had sacks of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, while Alec Ogletree had nine tackles and a fumble recovery on Seattle's final drive to preserve the victory. The Rams paid tribute to their first regular season game back in Los Angeles by wearing their blue and yellow throwback uniforms, which were their uniforms during their last season in 1994.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Held out of the end zone in the season's first two weeks, the Rams scored five touchdowns in what would be their highest single-game point total of the season. Case Keenum's 44-yard scoring strike to wide receiver Brian Quick ended L.A.'s TD drought, and Greg Zuerlein kicked a 53-yard field goal to give the Rams a 10-6 lead at the end of the first quarter.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
After the host Buccaneers scored twice to take a 20-10 lead, Todd Gurley scored on a pair of 1-yard touchdown runs in both the second and third quarters to put the Rams back in the lead. Defensive end Ethan Westbrooks picked up a fumble forced by Robert Quinn and ran it back 77 yards for a touchdown, and Keenum connected with Tavon Austin for a 43-yard touchdown pass play and a 37-26 lead. But Tampa Bay rallied behind quarterback Jameis Winston (405 yards, 3 TD passes) to pull within five points.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Driving in the final minute, the Bucs reached the Rams 5-yard line, but Quinn brought down Winston from behind as time expired. With two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, game play was suspended for 69 minutes due to lightning strikes in the area. With the win, the Rams record improved to 2–1 for the first time since 2006, placing the team in first place in the NFC West. It was also the first time the Rams scored a regular season touchdown as the Los Angeles Rams since 1994.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Arizona Cardinals
Case Keenum connected twice for touchdown passes to Brian Quick as Los Angeles held on for the victory, which gave the Rams a 3–1 start for the first time since 2006. Linebacker Mark Barron had a team-high eight tackles and an interception as the Rams defense forced five turnovers. Defensive tackle Aaron Donald was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week after recording five tackles with 1.5 sacks on the day as the Rams found themselves in first place in the NFC West.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Buffalo Bills
Greg Zuerlein kicked four field goals, but the Rams were undone by numerous mistakes in a home loss to the Bills. Case Keenum passed for 271 yards, but was intercepted twice and sacked four times. Kenny Britt's five receptions for 75 yards led the Rams, while Todd Gurley ran for 72 yards and a touchdown, but also lost a fumble at the end of the first quarter that led to a Buffalo touchdown. Bills cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman, who scored on a 41-yard interception return, would join the Rams the following season.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Detroit Lions
Case Keenum passed for three touchdowns and ran for another, but an interception in the final minutes ruined a comeback attempt as the Rams fell to 3-3 with a loss to the host Lions. Keenum set a team record with 19 straight completions on 27-for-32 passing with 321 yards. Tied 14-14 with four seconds remaining in the first half, the Rams failed to take the lead as Todd Gurley (14 carries, 58 yards) was stopped short of the goal line as time ran out. Wide receiver Kenny Britt caught seven passes for 136 yards and two scores, all season highs. Safety Lamarcus Joyner had eight tackles to lead the Rams, while Aaron Donald had four tackles and a sack.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. New York Giants
After scoring 10 points on their first two drives, the Rams could not score again as they allowed 17 unanswered points in losing to the Giants in the first NFL International Series game hosted at London's Twickenham Stadium.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. New York Giants
Case Keenum passed for 291 yards and a touchdown, but also threw four interceptions in the game, the first of which was returned 44 yards for a touchdown by Giants safety Landon Collins, and the last coming with 50 seconds remaining in the game as Keenum tossed an errant pass that was picked off by New York cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie in the end zone. Tavon Austin had a career-high 10 receptions for 57 yards and a touchdown on offense. Linebacker Alec Ogletree and cornerback Troy Hill each had seven solo tackles to share the team lead for the defense, which got no sacks as the Rams dropped to a 3-4 record going into the bye week.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Carolina Panthers
Despite outgaining the visiting Panthers 339-244, the Rams continued to struggle in a defensive battle at the Coliseum. Linebacker Mark Barron had nine solo tackles and a sack as the Rams defense got to Carolina quarterback Cam Newton five times, with defensive tackle Aaron Donald collecting two sacks.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Carolina Panthers
Midway through the fourth quarter, Rams quarterback Case Keenum, who passed for 296 yards, drove his team to the Carolina 7-yard line, but his third down pass to tight end Lance Kendricks (team-high seven receptions, 90 yards) was dropped at the goal line, forcing the Rams to settle for a Greg Zuerlein field goal. In the final minutes, the Rams drove 75 yards in 15 plays when Keenum connected with wide receiver Kenny Britt for a 10-yard touchdown with 34 seconds remaining to close to within 13-10, but the Panthers recovered the onside kick and then ran out the clock.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at New York Jets
Despite another ugly offensive performance, the Rams relied on special teams and defense to grab what would turn out to be their last victory of the season. Kicker Greg Zuerlein accounted for all of the Rams' scoring with field goals of 20, 38, and 34 yards in the first, third, and fourth quarters, respectively. Early in the fourth quarter with the score tied and the Rams facing 4th-and-1 from their own 17, All-Pro punter Johnny Hekker boomed a career-long 78-yard punt that pinned the Jets inside the 20.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at New York Jets
Hekker, who averaged 51.7 yards on seven punts, was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his pivotal role in changing the Rams' fortunes on the day. The Rams defense then forced the Jets to punt to near midfield, which set up what would ultimately be Zuerlein's game-winning score. Linebacker Alec Ogletree, who had a team-high nine tackles, picked off a Bryce Petty pass at the two-minute warning to preserve the win, as the Rams improved to 4–5 without scoring a touchdown. Wide receiver Kenny Britt had seven catches for 109 yards for the Rams on offense.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Miami Dolphins
Rookie quarterback Jared Goff, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, made his first start for the Rams. After going three-and-out on his first series, Goff completed his first two passes to tight end Tyler Higbee (2 yards) and wide receiver Kenny Britt (19 yards) to set up a 25-yard touchdown run by running back Todd Gurley. The Rams took a 10–0 lead late in the third quarter on a 46-yard field goal by Greg Zuerlein.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Miami Dolphins
But Zeurlein just missed on a 48-yard attempt midway through the fourth quarter, which gave the Dolphins an opportunity to come back. Despite being sacked four times, Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill threw touchdown passes to Jarvis Landry and DeVante Parker, the last coming with just 36 seconds remaining in the game to take the 14–10 win. Linebackers Mark Barron and Alec Ogletree each had 11 tackles, while defensive end Dominique Easley had two sacks. On offense, Goff completed 17 of 31 passes for 134 yards and was sacked once in his career and season debut.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints
Jared Goff threw for three touchdowns in the first half for the first scoring passes of his career, but it was not enough as Drew Brees passed for four touchdowns and ran for another as the host Saints shredded the Rams defense, which gave up a season-high 555 yards. Goff drove the Rams 75 yards in six plays on the opening drive, capping it off with a 24-yard touchdown strike to Tavon Austin.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints
Following a strip sack of Brees by Aaron Donald with a fumble recovery by Mark Barron at the beginning of the second quarter, Goff opened up the second quarter with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Britt. New Orleans then scored 21 unanswered points before the Rams responded with Goff connecting with Lance Kendricks from 15 yards out with 55 seconds remaining in the period to bring Los Angeles to within 28-21. But the Rams would get no closer, as the Saints scored three more touchdowns in a dominating second half. Goff completed 20 of 32 passes for 214 yards with three touchdowns and one interception, but was sacked three times and lost a fumble. Barron had a team-high 14 tackles (10 solo) to go along with his fumble recovery.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at New England Patriots
The Rams offered little resistance on the road against the eventual Super Bowl champions, which held visiting Los Angeles to just 162 yards in total offense. Jared Goff completed 14 of 32 passes for 161 yards, was intercepted twice and sacked four times. Much of that yardage came after the two-minute warning in the fourth quarter, when Goff connected with Kenny Britt for a 66-yard pass play. Two plays later, Goff and Britt connected again for a 1-yard touchdown. Alec Ogletree had 14 tackles to lead the Rams defense.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
Returning home to the Coliseum, the Rams were in trouble from the start, when Mike Thomas muffed the opening kickoff, which was recovered by the Falcons at the Rams 3-yard line. One play later, Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan threw the first of three touchdown passes on the day with a 3-yard strike to wide receiver Justin Hardy as Atlanta, the eventual NFC Champion, romped to victory even without playing its top two wideouts Julio Jones and Mohamed Sanu, who were both sidelined with injuries.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
Ryan tossed his second touchdown to running back Tevin Coleman at the start of the second quarter. Meanwhile, Rams rookie quarterback Jared Goff struggled greatly, throwing two interceptions in the first half, the second of which was returned 33 yards for a touchdown by linebacker Deion Jones and a 21-0 Falcons lead. On Atlanta's first possession of the third period, Ryan found wide receiver Taylor Gabriel for a 64-yard touchdown pass play and Coleman added another score on a 6-yard TD run.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons rout was completed on the Rams' next drive as defensive end Vic Beasley, who had three sacks of Goff, stripped the Rams QB of the ball and scooped it up himself for a 21-yard fumble recovery return touchdown. The Rams salvaged some dignity in the fourth quarter with short touchdown runs by Goff and Todd Gurley, but the outcome of the game had long been decided. After the game, Gurley lashed out at the team for running a "middle-school offense."


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
The loss (in which Los Angeles was mathematically eliminated from postseason contention) was the 165th of Jeff Fisher's career, tying him with Dan Reeves for the most in NFL history. The game would turn to be his last for Fisher as the Rams' head coach, as he was fired the following day. Fisher ended his professional coaching career with a record of 172-165-1.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Seattle Seahawks
Just three days after being named interim head coach, John Fassel led the Rams into their final road game of the season. The Rams offense continued to sputter under the direction of offensive coordinator Rob Boras, with only a Greg Zuerlein field goal late in the second quarter averting a shutout. Jared Goff completed 13 of 25 passes for 135 yards and was sacked four times.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Seattle Seahawks
Early in the fourth quarter, Goff led the Rams on their best drive of the game, going from their own 20 in 12 plays before taking off on a 15-yard run down to the Seattle 2-yard line, where he was knocked out of bounds and out of the game on a hard hit by Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. Case Keenum relieved Goff at quarterback, but was ineffective and the Rams were held without a touchdown for the fourth time in the season. Linebacker Mark Barron and cornerback Mike Jordan both had seven tackles to lead the Rams defense.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Seattle Seahawks
As this was an NFL Color Rush game, the Rams played in the all-white uniforms that constituted their primary uniform for the season, but with all-white socks. Additionally, Los Angeles switched to gray facemasks and went with white horns on their blue helmets for the first time since the 1972 NFL season.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. San Francisco 49ers
In a matchup of two of the NFL's worst teams, Los Angeles started fast but faded in the fourth quarter as the 49ers, who had shut out the Rams in Week 1, snapped their own 13-game losing streak with a victory in the final minute. Todd Gurley and Tavon Austin both scored on touchdown runs in the first quarter to give the Rams a 14-7 lead.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. San Francisco 49ers
Both teams held each other scoreless in the second and third periods, but it seemed that the Rams would outlast their rivals in the fourth when quarterback Jared Goff connected with fellow rookie tight end Tyler Higbee for a 2-yard touchdown with 10:38 remaining to build a 21-7 lead. But the 49ers rallied behind quarterback Colin Kaepernick (28-38, 266 yards), who led his team on a 14-play, 75-yard drive that ended with Kaepernick running it in from 13 yards out.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. San Francisco 49ers
Then after the Rams were held to a three-and-out, Kaepernick drove San Francisco 75 yards in 10 plays, firing a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Rod Streater with 36 seconds remaining. The 49ers then opted to go for the win, and Kaepernick successfully scrambled into the end zone to put his team on top 22-21, as the 49ers swept the season series for the first time since 2013.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. San Francisco 49ers
Following the game, a solemn Goff took responsibility for the loss (which dropped the Rams to 4-11) and pledged during his postgame press conference, "I promise everyone out there, all of the Rams fans, that I’m going to do everything I can, everything in me, to make that happen and get this thing fixed."


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Arizona Cardinals
The Rams' 2016 season came to an end on the first day of 2017 with yet another listless performance that capped off the franchise's 10th straight losing campaign. Kicker Greg Zuerlein provided the Rams' only scoring once again with field goals of 37 and 36 yards in the second quarter. Arizona quarterback Carson Palmer, who won the Heisman Trophy while playing at USC, had a successful day in his return to the Coliseum, passing for 255 yards and three touchdowns as the Cardinals scored 28 unanswered points in the second half.


2016 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Arizona Cardinals
Offensively, quarterback Jared Goff completed 13 of 20 passes for 120 yards, but was sacked a season-high seven times. A year after winning NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year honors, Todd Gurley had 14 carries for 40 yards to finish the season with just 885 rushing yards despite playing in all 16 games. The Rams offense ended with a league-worst 224 points scored, and were held to 10 or fewer points for the ninth time in the season. Cornerback Blake Countess had nine tackles for the Rams, who finished their season at 4–12.


2016 Los Angeles Sparks season
The 2016 WNBA season is the 20th season for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association. The season tipped off on May 15. The Sparks finished with a record of 26–8, second in the Western Conference (and the league as a whole), and advanced to the WNBA Finals, which they won, three games to two, against the Minnesota Lynx. It was the team's first title since 2002.


2016 Los Angeles Sparks season, WNBA Draft
The Sparks made three selections in the 2016 WNBA Entry Draft in Uncasville, Connecticut:


2016 Los Angeles Sparks season, WNBA Draft
After selecting Talia Walton, the Sparks waived her on May 11, 2016. The Sparks also waived draft pick Whitney Knight on August 30, 2016.


2016 Los Angeles Sparks season, Playoffs
The Sparks qualified for the 2016 playoffs, and, as the team with the second-best regular season record in the WNBA, received two automatic byes, advancing straight to the best-of-five semifinal.


2016 Los Cabos Open
The 2016 Los Cabos Open (or Abierto Mexicano Los Cabos) was an ATP tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the Los Cabos Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place in Los Cabos, Mexico from August 8 through August 13, 2016. It took over from the Claro Open in Bogota, Colombia that had been held the previous 3 years.


2016 Los Cabos Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Los Cabos Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Los Cabos Open – Doubles
Purav Raja and Divij Sharan won the title, defeating Jonathan Erlich and Ken Skupski in the final, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3).


2016 Los Cabos Open – Singles
Ivo Karlović won the title, defeating Feliciano López in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–2.


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


2016 Losail Superbike World Championship round
The 2016 Losail Superbike World Championship round was the thirteenth and last round of the 2016 Superbike World Championship. It took place over the weekend of 28–30 October 2016 at the Losail International Circuit.


2016 Lotto–Soudal season
The 2016 season for the Lotto-Soudal cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2016 Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) season
The 2016 season was Loughborough Lightning's first season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished third in the initial group stage, winning three of their five matches, therefore progressing to the semi-final. However, they lost to Western Storm by five wickets in the semi-final.


2016 Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) season
The side was partnered with Loughborough University, and played their home matches at the Haslegrave Ground. They were coached by Salliann Briggs and captained by Georgia Elwiss.


2016 Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) season, Squad
Loughborough Lightning's 15-player squad is listed below. Age given is at the start of Loughborough Lightning's first match of the season (30 July 2016).


2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary
The 2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary took place on March 5 in the U.S. state of Louisiana as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.


2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary
On the same day, Democratic primaries were held in Kansas and in Nebraska, while the Republican Party held primaries in four states, including their own Louisiana primary.


2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary
Clinton won every parish in the state except for Cameron and LaSalle Parishes.


2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary, Results
Clinton dominated in Louisiana winning all but two of the states parishes. Clinton was declared the winner in Louisiana right when the polls closed.


2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
A state Hillary Clinton lost solidly to Barack Obama in 2008, she progressed to victory in 2016. With its heavily African American population, Hillary Clinton solidly defeated Bernie Sanders in Louisiana. The electorate in Louisiana was expected to be about half African American, as it was about 48% African American in 2008. Clinton won overwhelmingly in the major cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Shreveport, all with significant minority populations. Clinton also did well in the areas north of New Orleans and east of Baton Rouge in the 1st Congressional District, which is among the most conservative in Louisiana and the South at large. She also performed well in rural counties in Central Louisiana and those along the Louisiana-Texas border that are majority white as she had likewise done eight years prior.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary
The 2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary was held on March 5, 2016, as part of the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries. In this primary, voters in the United States state of Louisiana voted on who the Republican nominee for President of the United States should be in the 2016 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party held their Louisiana primary on the same day.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary
The Republican primary in Louisiana was a closed primary, meaning that only registered Republicans could vote in it. It was won by Donald Trump, with Texas Senator Ted Cruz finishing in second place.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Delegate allocation rules
Louisiana's 2016 Republican primary had a total of 46 delegates available. They were allocated as follows:


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Analysis
The Louisiana primary was called for Trump by the Associated Press about half an hour after the polls closed. Trump's victory in Louisiana was seen as evidence against the argument, made by some of his critics, that he would do worse in a closed primary, in contrast to his defeat in the Kansas caucus that was held the same day. It was also viewed as an opportunity to see whether Cruz's campaign was gaining momentum, and whether Cruz was well-positioned to defeat Trump and win the nomination.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Analysis
Trump's relatively narrow victory over Cruz, whom he beat by less than four percentage points, contrasted with many polls of Louisiana in which he had a double-digit lead over Cruz. However, the fact that Trump won the state at all was in line with the results of every primary poll conducted there.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Analysis
Among those who voted early in the primary, Trump beat Cruz by almost 24 points, but Cruz defeated Trump among those who voted on Election Day, which led the race to be relatively close statewide. The stark contrast between early and Election-Day results led to the Louisiana primary facing criticism from critics of early voting. Trump's strong performance among those who decided who they wanted to vote for further in advance of the primary in Louisiana was different from most previous contests, in which Rubio had generally done better among early deciders.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Analysis
On December 23rd, 2015 the Donald J. Trump campaign announced that political advisor Ryan Lambert was selected as Louisiana's Campaign State Director.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Delegate dispute
Initially, because the race in Louisiana was relatively close (Trump won by only 3.6%), Trump and Cruz each received 18 of the state's 46 delegates. Marco Rubio won five more delegates, and the remaining five were "unbound", meaning they could choose to support whichever candidate they wanted. After Rubio withdrew from the race, the five Louisiana delegates that had been pledged to him became "free agents" who, like the five previously unbound delegates, were expected to support Cruz.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Delegate dispute
Later in March 2016, it was reported that, despite having lost the Louisiana primary to Trump, Cruz could get more of the state's delegates overall, because he was likely to receive support from more of Louisiana's unbound delegates than was Trump. Despite the reporting of their support to Cruz, a majority of Rubio's delegates rebuked this assertion and voted with Donald J. Trump.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Delegate dispute
In response, the Trump campaign announced that they would challenge the delegate distribution in Louisiana, with Trump himself tweeting that a "lawsuit" would be coming. Trump campaign senior adviser Barry Bennett responded by saying that Trump was referring to a "decertification process" that the campaign would pursue through the Republican National Committee.


2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary, Delegate dispute
In response to Trump's claims, Republican Party of Louisiana executive director Jason Dore stated in March 2016 that the proportional delegate allocation rules for Louisiana's primary were adopted before Trump announced his presidential candidacy, and that it was too late by then to change them. Dore also said that Cruz was not going to receive more delegates than Trump, adding, "Everybody's been allocated what they're going to be allocated."


2016 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team
The 2016 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represented Louisiana Tech University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played their home games at the Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, Louisiana, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by fourth-year head coach Skip Holtz. They finished the season 9–5, 6–2 in C-USA play to be champions of the West Division. They represented the West Division in the Conference USA Championship Game where they lost to WKU. They were invited to the Armed Forces Bowl where they defeated Navy. The Louisiana Tech offense became the first team in NCAA Division 1 history to have a QB pass for 4,500+ yards, a RB rush for 1,000+ yards and two WRs with 1,500+ receiving yards all in a single season.


2016 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Louisiana Tech announced its 2016 football schedule on February 4, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 5 home and 7 away games in the regular season. The Bulldogs will host C–USA foes Rice, UTEP, UTSA, and Western Kentucky (WKU), and will travel to Florida International (FIU), Middle Tennessee, North Texas, and Southern Miss.


2016 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Schedule
The team will play four non–conference games, one home game against South Carolina State from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, and three road games against Massachusetts, Arkansas from the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and Texas Tech from the Big 12 Conference.


2016 Louisiana floods
In August 2016, prolonged rainfall from an unpredictable storm resulted in catastrophic flooding in the state of Louisiana, United States; thousands of houses and businesses were submerged. Louisiana's governor, John Bel Edwards, called the disaster a "historic, unprecedented flooding event" and declared a state of emergency. Many rivers and waterways, particularly the Amite and Comite rivers, reached record levels, and rainfall exceeded 20 inches (510 mm) in multiple parishes.


2016 Louisiana floods
Because numerous homeowners who were affected were without flood insurance, the federal government is providing disaster aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The flood has been called the worst US natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. 60 deaths have been reported as a result of the flooding.


2016 Louisiana floods, Meteorological history
Early on August 11, a mesoscale convective system flared up in southern Louisiana around a weak area of low pressure that was situated next to an outflow boundary. It remained nearly stationary, and as a result, torrential downpours occurred in the areas surrounding Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Rainfall rates of up to 2–3 inches (5.1–7.6 cm) an hour were reported in the most deluged areas where totals exceeded nearly 2 feet (61 cm) in some areas as a result of the system remaining stationary. Accumulations peaked at 31.39 inches (797 mm) in Watson, just northeast of Baton Rouge.


2016 Louisiana floods, Meteorological history
The Washington Post noted that the "no-name storm" dumped three times as much rain on Louisiana as Hurricane Katrina. It dropped the equivalent of 7.1 trillion gallons of water or enough to fill Lake Pontchartrain about four times. Hurricane Katrina, by comparison, dumped about 2.3 trillion gallons of rainwater in the state (though more in other states). The flooding rains also dumped more water than had Hurricane Isaac. According to the National Weather Service Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center, the amount of rainfall in the hardest-hit locations had a less than 0.1 percent chance of happening or was a (less than) 1-in-1,000-year event.


2016 Louisiana floods, Meteorological history
Because the rain was not associated with a named storm, there was less warning to the public for emergency preparations.


2016 Louisiana floods, Meteorological history, Climate change connection
A rapid attribution study, published within one month after the event, indicates an anthropogenic climate warming role in the increased probability of the return time of a similar extreme event happening in the future. A follow-on   indicates that the catastrophic flood in Louisiana was a result of intense precipitation produced by a slow-moving, tropical, low-pressure system interacting with an eastward-traveling baroclinic trough to the north. While tropical-midlatitude interactions of this nature are rare, they are not unprecedented.


2016 Louisiana floods, Meteorological history, Climate change connection
Analyses point towards the tendency for more and perhaps stronger upper-level troughs propagating out of the western U.S. in summer; these have an increasing potential to cross paths with low-pressure systems that form around the Gulf Coast. Combined with the projected increase in precipitable water, resulting precipitation magnitude would increase. Large-ensemble modeling indicates that the prospect of future tropical-midlatitude interactions is a scenario that Louisiana will face in the future. Regional simulations suggest that the climate warming since 1985 may have increased the event precipitation (August 11–14, 2016) on the order of 20%.


2016 Louisiana floods, Meteorological history, Climate change connection
Rainfall like this and the emergency help needed after the flooding subsides are straining the federal system for aid to states. Some analysts wonder if this is the new normal for storms and floods.


2016 Louisiana floods, Flooding
Flooding began in earnest on August 12. On August 13, a flash flood emergency was issued for areas along the Amite and Comite rivers. By August 15, more than ten rivers (Amite, Vermilion, Calcasieu, Comite, Mermentau, Pearl, Tangipahoa, Tchefuncte, Tickfaw, and Bogue Chitto) and many more had reached a moderate, major, or record flood stage. Eight rivers reached record levels, including the Amite and Comite rivers.


2016 Louisiana floods, Flooding
The Amite River crested at nearly 5 ft (1.5 m) above the previous record in Denham Springs. Nearly one-third of all homes—approximately 15,000 structures—in Ascension Parish were flooded after a levee along the Amite River was overtopped. Water levels began to slowly recede by August 15, though large swaths of land remained submerged. Livingston Parish was one of the hardest hit areas; an official estimated that 75 percent of the homes in the parish were a "total loss". It was thought over 146,000 homes were damaged in Louisiana. This mass flooding also damaged thousands of businesses.


2016 Louisiana floods, Flooding
Thirteen people have been confirmed dead as a consequence of the flooding. An elderly woman in Livingston Parish was confirmed dead by parish officials. A man's body was found Wednesday on Whitehall Avenue in Denham Springs. Officials said they found a man in his 50s in the South Point subdivision off of Walker South. They added he had no obvious signs of trauma, and the area he was found in had five-feet of water in it at one point. Of the other deaths, five people have died in East Baton Rouge Parish, three in Tangipahoa Parish, two in St. Helena Parish, two in Livingston Parish and one in Rapides Parish from the storms and their aftermath.


2016 Louisiana floods, Flooding, Evacuations and rescues
The widespread flooding stranded tens of thousands of people in their homes and vehicles. At least 30,000 people were rescued by local law enforcement, firefighters, the Louisiana National Guard, the Coast Guard and fellow residents, from submerged vehicles and flooded homes. Many boat-owning residents of Louisiana and Mississippi, together with other volunteers, formed an informal rescue service known as the Cajun Navy and navigated through flooded areas to answer calls for help that they received via social media. They rescued as many as a thousand people and pets and distributed emergency supplies.


2016 Louisiana floods, Flooding, Evacuations and rescues
A group of 70 volunteers from St. Bernard Parish conducted hundreds of boat rescues in East Baton Rouge Parish. By August 15, approximately 11,000 people sought refuge in 70 shelters. Flash flooding swamped a 7-mile (11 km) section of Interstate 12 between Tangipahoa Parish and Baton Rouge, stranding 125 vehicles. At one point, an approximately 62-mile stretch was closed because of flooding concerns. State police and the National Guard used high-water vehicles to rescue trapped motorists, but many remained stuck for over 24 hours. A cellular network outage complicated rescues over the affected area. On August 12, a state of emergency was activated for the whole of Louisiana.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath
With an estimated 146,000 homes damaged in the flooding thousands of Louisianans were forced into shelters, with more than 11,000 in state-operated shelters. This prompted an estimated 1,500 American Red Cross volunteers to travel to Louisiana. Other groups such as Louisiana State University, the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Celebration Church, ,  and the Church of Scientology also sent aid. There were media reports of one man who cooked 108 pounds (49 kg) of brisket for displaced people.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath
The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals attempted to rescue stray pets, and the Second Harvest Food Bank and the United Way of Southeast Louisiana sent supplies and food. More than 109,398 individuals and households registered for FEMA assistance, and FEMA approved $132 million for assistance. Singer Beyoncé, along with sister Solange and Kelly Rowland, held an event that raised more $4 million for those affected by the floods in Baton Rouge. In addition, singer Taylor Swift donated $1 million to Louisiana's relief fund. Lady Gaga donated an unspecified amount of money.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath
On August 13, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated by the USGS, allowing for the humanitarian redeployment of satellite assets by the international community. AT&T donated $100,000 to be split between the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and DonorsChoose.org for flood relief. Randy Jackson and Harry Connick Jr. were scheduled to host a benefit concert at the Baton Rouge River Center Theatre on September 5, featuring over a dozen artists, and all proceeds went to the American Red Cross Louisiana Flood Relief fund.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath
On the "Ellen" show Friday, September 9, host Ellen DeGeneres announced that she and Britney Spears would each donate $125,000 to help victims of the Louisiana Flood of 2016. Both celebrities are from Louisiana. Spears gave $125,000 to the Louisiana Red Cross to buy a new emergency response vehicle. DeGeneres received a letter from Betsey Baldwin, a P.E. teacher at Galvez Middle School in Ascension parish, which was inundated with two feet of water. The school has 620 students, who after the floods have been forced to study at another, nearby school. "I thought of one person that would help me, and it was you," Baldwin said. The company Shutterfly, at the request of DeGeneres, donated $125,000 to help Galvez Middle School recover.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
During the peak of the floods, around 265,000 children have been out of school, nearly 30% of the school-aged population in the state of Louisiana. There were reports that 6 schools were heavily flooded in East Baton Rouge Parish with another 15 in Livingston Parish.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
Livingston Parish's Superintendent, Rick Wentzel, believes that their school system is in a similar position to the Northshore following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and he held a meeting with the school district to discuss possible options. Livingston Parish conducted a teacher survey August 23–24, and a parent survey August 25 to assess how those are affected, and on Friday, August 26, 2016, Superintendent Rick Wentzel announced that Livingston Parish Public Schools will be resuming class on September 12, 2016. Wentzel, who was affected by the flooding himself, said he was "very pleased" that all schools will be resuming together.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
The late restart date is because LPPS received the most extensive damage with eight of the 15 flooded schools having "extensive damage." Wentzel said that each school will have a welcome back event for parents and students before returning on September 12, 27 school days following the August 4 start date. Wentzel said that the restart will have some unfortunate "side effects" as some schools will be temporarily platooned.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
The platooned schools were Denham Springs High School at Live Oak High School, Denham Springs Freshman High at Live Oak Middle School, Southside Junior High at Juban Parc High School, and Springfield High School at Springfield Middle School. All host schools were in session from 6:30 am until 11:40 am and all platooned schools were in session from 12:25 pm until 5:37 pm. The two elementary schools were in class alongside their relocated school.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
Denham Springs Elementary was split among Eastside Elementary (Grades: PreK, K, 1, 2) and Freshwater Elementary (Grades: 3, 4, 5) while Southside Elementary was split among Lewis Vincent Elementary (Grades: PreK, K, 1) and Juban Parc Elementary (Grades: 2, 3, 4, 5). This announcement also came with Superintendent Wentzel saying ALL students will receive free lunch until September 30. Following a school board meeting on Thursday, September 9, Assistant Superintendent Stephen Parill announced the "known and confident updates" for the 2016 Academic Calendar.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
Only four changes were made to the calendar that include: changing Thursday, September 15 from a half-day to a whole day, removing the parish fair holiday on Friday, October 7 (the fair was cancelled due to the flooding), removing a parent-teacher conference day on Thursday, October 20, and making Wednesday, November 16 a whole day instead of a half-day. The board also voted to add class time to the day. Parill said they are still waiting on their appeal to Louisiana BESE waiving the required minutes of class, and any further changes will be made after BESE's ruling.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
For the entire state, superintendent John White said that at least 22 schools had heavy damage and will need time to recover. There were also many school closures due to flooding in the Lafayette area as well.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
Many teachers' homes flooded, with 4,000 staff members' homes in Baker sustaining damage and another 2,000 in East Baton Rouge Parish. East Baton Rouge Parish schools announced they won't open back up until September 6, 25 days after school was originally canceled for the floods on August 12, the third day of school.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Impact on school system
Transportation was a challenge for many districts across the state, as many kids were displaced from their homes and many school buses were damaged from flood water.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Prison system
The Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW), located in St. Gabriel and the sole Louisiana state prison for women, had 985 prisoners at the time of the flooding. The prison experienced flooding ranging from 8 inches (200 mm) to 3 feet (0.91 m). LCIW, the only state-operated prison to receive flooding during the incident, temporarily closed. It was the first time in state history that the whole population of a particular prison was evacuated to other facilities. As of 2017 the prisoners were still housed in other prisons. Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, next to LCIW, was not evacuated.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Economic impact
Damages were anticipated to reach $10–15 billion, with this storm likely ranking as the seventh most expensive of natural disasters in the US since 1978.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Economic impact
Because many of the areas that flooded were not in "high flood risk areas," the majority of homeowners affected by the flood did not have flood insurance. Across Louisiana, about 21% of all structures have coverage under the National Flood Insurance Program. Despite this, in many parishes that percentage is much lower. In St. Helena Parish, which was among the hardest hit parishes by the floods, less than 1% of all homeowners had flood insurance.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Economic impact
Because of the large number of homeowners without flood insurance that were affected, the federal government is providing disaster aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The flood has been called the worst US natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.


2016 Louisiana floods, Aftermath, Economic impact
FEMA, which has stepped in to help homeowners without flood insurance, has declared these 20 parishes as federal disaster areas: Acadia, Ascension, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion, Washington, and West Feliciana. Homeowners with damage from the floods in those parishes are eligible for up to $33,000 in federal disaster aid and so far around 102,000 people have applied for help. For business continuity and community rebuilding, private mobile flood recovery centers have also been made available, including a 10-piece modular building complex used in Baton Rouge by FEMA as a portable school for children of displaced families who moved north from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.


2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team
The 2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at M. L. Tigue Moore Field and were led by twenty-second year head coach Tony Robichaux.


2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on February 2, 2016. Louisiana-Lafayette was picked to finish first in the Sun Belt with 117 votes and 8 first-place votes.


2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Schedule and results
Louisiana–Lafayette announced its 2016 baseball schedule on September 15, 2015. The 2016 schedule consisted of 28 home and 28 away games in the regular season, including a trip to Houston to play in one of the toughest college baseball series, the Houston College Classic. The Ragin' Cajuns will host Sun Belts foes Little Rock, Georgia State, Texas State, Appalachian State, and Louisiana-Monroe and will travel to Troy, Arkansas State, Georgia State, UT Arlington, and South Alabama.


2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Schedule and results
The 2016 Sun Belt Conference Championship was contested on May 25–29 in San Marcos, Texas, and was hosted by Texas State University.


2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team
The 2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Mark Hudspeth and played their home games at Cajun Field in Lafayette, Louisiana. The Ragin' Cajuns were members of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 6–7, 5–3 in Sun Belt play to finish in fifth place. They were invited to the New Orleans Bowl where they lost to Southern Miss.


2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team
The 2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2016 NCAA Division I softball season. The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at Lamson Park and were led by sixteenth year head coach Michael Lotief.


2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on January 26, 2016. Louisiana-Lafayette was picked to finish first in the Sun Belt Conference with 98 votes and 8 first place votes.


2016 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team
The 2016 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team represented the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Warhawks, led by first-year head coach Matt Viator, played their home games at Malone Stadium and were members of the Sun Belt Conference.


2016 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 2016 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the University of Louisville in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cardinals were led by then third-year head coach Bobby Petrino, who began his second stint at Louisville in 2014 after eight years away. The team played their home games at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. The Cardinals competed as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2016 Louisville Cardinals football team
The Cardinals were led by sophomore quarterback Lamar Jackson, who was responsible for 51 touchdowns on the year (30 passing and 21 rushing), which was second in FBS. He was awarded the Heisman Trophy, distinguishing him as the nation's best college football player, becoming the first Louisville player to win the award.


2016 Louisville Cardinals football team, Recruiting
National Signing Day was February 3, 2016. The Cardinals signed 23 players in total.


2016 Louisville City FC season
The 2016 Louisville City FC season is the club's second season playing in Louisville, Kentucky in the United Soccer League (USL), in the third tier of the United States soccer league system.


2016 Louisville City FC season, Background
The club was formed in 2014 when its United Soccer League license was acquired from Orlando City by minority owner Wayne Estopinal. Louisville City is treated as a unique and new team, with the previous team's history claimed by its Major League Soccer successor, Orlando City SC.


2016 Louisville City FC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
Louisville City entered the 2016 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of the United Soccer League in the second round.


2016 Louisville City FC season, Media
As with the rest of the USL, all of Louisville City FC's USL matches will appear on YouTube. There is also a weekly Radio show on 790 WKRD.


2016 Ludwigshafen attempted bombings
On 16 December 2016, a bombing plot was uncovered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy, who was reported to be the perpetrator, was directed by an ISIL supporter to build two nail bombs and plant them at the local Christmas market and near a shopping centre.


2016 Ludwigshafen attempted bombings, Incidents
After a first attempt failed at the Christmas market on 26 November when the bomb did not explode, the boy tried a second time on 5 December near the mall and the town hall of Ludwigshafen. He was reported to have been radicalised or instructed by an unidentified ISIS member. The German federal prosecutor declined to comment on the ISIS stories and announced an investigation into his motives. The device contained “pyrotechnic material” believed to have been extracted from fireworks and sparklers and tests revealed that the mix was combustible, but not explosive. The state youth welfare office took charge of the boy.


2016 Ludwigshafen attempted bombings, Suspect
The suspect was born in Ludwigshafen. His name was not released because of German privacy laws; German law also does not allow criminal prosecution of those younger than 14. The suspect had contemplated traveling to Syria in mid-2016 to join the Islamic State.


2016 Ludwigshafen attempted bombings, Investigation and trial
On 13 April 2018, an Islamic State supporter was sentenced in Vienna to nine years in prison for instigating the crime and for planning another attack on the US airbase in Ramstein, Germany along with a 15-year-old girl married to him under Islamic law. During the trial, the suspect of the Ludwigshafen bombing, now 14 years old, emphasized that the bombing was his own idea. The bombing only failed because the fuse cord was insufficient.


2016 Lunar New Year Cup
The 90th 2016 Lunar New Year Cup (Chinese: 猴年賀歲盃; lit. : 'Year of the Monkey Celebrate New Year Cup'), is the annual football event held in Hong Kong to celebrate Chinese New Year. The event was held by the Hong Kong Football Association. 3 matches were played.


2016 M.A.M.A. awards
The 6th Annual M.A.M.A. Awards were held on January 27, 2017. The TV3 Lithuania network broadcast the show live from Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas. The nominations were announced on December 14, 2016.


2016 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2016 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held from March 3–7, 2016 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. No. 2 seed Iona upset No. 1 seed Monmouth 79–76 in the championship game and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament. It was the fourth consecutive championship game for Iona, and their conference leading ninth MAAC tournament championship.


2016 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 11 teams in the conference participated in the Tournament. The top five teams received byes to the Quarterfinals.


2016 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2016 MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2016 MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament was the 24th edition of the MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament decided the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.


2016 MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament
The defending champions, Rider Broncs successfully defended their title, beating regular season champions, Quinnipiac, 3–1 in the championship game. The title was Rider's fourth overall MAAC championship. Additionally, Rider became the first school since Marist in 2004–2005 to repeat as MAAC Tournament champions.


2016 MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament
Quinnipiac University hosted the semifinals and final of the tournament, while the first round was hosted by the higher seeds.


2016 MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament, Seeds
Seeds for the tournament are determined by teams' conference records, with tiebreakers determined according to MAAC tiebreaker rules.


2016 MAAC Men's Soccer Tournament, All-Tournament Team
The MAAC All-Tournament team was announced following the championship. The MVP is in bold text.


2016 MAAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2016 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held from March 3–7 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. Iona defeated Quinnipiac to win their first MAAC Tournament to earn their first automatic trip to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in school history.


2016 MAAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.


2016 MAAC Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2016 MAAC Women's Soccer Tournament is the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to be held from October 29 to November 6, 2016. The five match tournament will be held at campus sites, with the semifinals and final held at Hesse Field in West Long Branch, New Jersey. The six team single-elimination tournament will consist of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Siena Saints are the defending tournament champions after defeating the Manhattan Jaspers in the championship match.


2016 MAC Championship Game
The 2016 MAC Championship Game was an NCAA Division I college football conference championship game for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). It was the 20th MAC Football Championship Game and was played at Ford Field in Detroit on Friday, December 2, 2016, televised on ESPN2. The game featured the East Division co-champion Ohio Bobcats against the outright West Division champion Western Michigan Broncos.


2016 MAC Championship Game, Teams
The Ohio Bobcats clinched their spot in the 2016 MAC Championship Game by beating Akron 9–3 in their final regular season game. They tied with divisional rival Miami for the East title, but advanced to the MAC title game by virtue of their 17–7 win at Miami on October 1. Under 12th year head coach Frank Solich, the Bobcats finished the regular season with an 8–4 record, with key wins coming against Kansas and Toledo. Ohio finished 1–1 against Power 5 teams; they lost to Tennessee (from the SEC) and beat Kansas (from the Big 12).


2016 MAC Championship Game, Teams
The Western Michigan Broncos earned a spot in the 2016 MAC Championship Game after winning the MAC West outright by defeating Toledo 55–35 in their final home game. Under fourth year head coach P. J. Fleck, the Broncos finished the regular season with a perfect record, defeating both Big Ten Conference teams they faced (Northwestern and Illinois). The Broncos also defeated archrival Central Michigan for the third straight year by a score of 49–10.


2016 MAC Championship Game, Game summary
The Broncos opened the game with two first-quarter field goals, and the first quarter ended 6–0 in favor of the undefeated Broncos. Western Michigan had outscored opponents 135–59 in the first quarter during the season. They started the second quarter with their third field goal of the game, and extended their lead to nine. Ohio got on the scoreboard in the second quarter with an eight-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Greg Windham to Jordan Reid and cut the Broncos' lead to three, the closest the game had been since WMU's first field goal.


2016 MAC Championship Game, Game summary
The Broncos responded with two passing touchdowns and led at the half, 23–7. The Bobcats opened the third quarter with a touchdown inside the first two minutes to bring Ohio within 10 points as the extra point was no good. Broncos' kicker Butch Hampton responded with just under 3:30 left in the quarter with his fourth field goal of the game. The Bobcats cut the lead to six points with just over a minute left in the third quarter as Windham connected with Papi White for a 31-yard touchdown pass and the third quarter ended with Western Michigan leading 26–20.


2016 MAC Championship Game, Game summary
Ohio cut the Broncos' lead to three with 7:14 left in the final quarter after Louie Zervos kicked his first field goal of the game, from 37 yards. WMU kicker Butch Hampton improved to five-for-five on field goals on the game with 1:24 left in the fourth quarter to extend Western Michigan's lead to six. Ohio's would-be game-winning drive was abruptly cut short when Windham's pass was intercepted over the middle by Robert Spillane with 0:51 left in the game. Western Michigan took over and ran out the clock to with the MAC Championship.


2016 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2016 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2015–16 college basketball season. Tournament first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 7. The remaining rounds were held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland between March 10–12. Buffalo won the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid into the 2016 NCAA Tournament.


2016 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
In 2016, the tournament reverted to its original structure with the top four seeds receiving just one bye into the quarterfinals. From 2012 to 2015, the top two seeds received byes into the semifinals while the third and fourth seeds received a bye to the quarterfinals.


2016 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2016 Mid-American Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 23rd edition of the tournament. It determined the Mid-American Conference's automatic berth into the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.


2016 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
The top four teams in the Mid-American Conference based on their conference regular season records qualified for the tournament. Akron, Bowling Green, Buffalo, and Western Michigan earned berths into the tournament.


2016 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2016 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament is a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2015–16 college basketball season. Tournament first-round games will be held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 7. The remaining rounds will be held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland between March 9–12. The winner of the tournament will receive the conference's automatic bid into the 2016 NCAA Tournament.


2016 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format
Unlike with the recent tournaments, where the top two seeds received byes into the semifinals, with the three and four seeds receiving a bye to the quarterfinals. The tournament will revert to the original structure. The top four seeds will receive just one bye into the quarterfinals.


2016 MBC Drama Awards
The 2016 MBC Drama Awards (Korean: MBC 연기대상; RR: MBC Yeon-gi Daesang), presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) took place on December 30, 2016. It was hosted by Kim Gook-jin and Uee.


2016 MBC Entertainment Awards
The 2016 MBC Entertainment Awards (Korean: MBC 방송연예대상; RR: MBC Bangsong Yeon-ye Daesang) presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), took place on December 29, 2016 at MBC Public Hall in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. It was hosted by Kim Sung-joo, Jun Hyun-moo and Lee Sung-kyung. The nominees were chosen from MBC variety, talk and comedy shows that aired from December 2015 to November 2016.


2016 MBC Entertainment Awards, Nominations and winners
*Jeong Jun-ha and Kim Sung-joo were the Grand Prize initial nominees alongside Yoo Jae-suk and Kim Gura, but after they won the Top Excellence Awards, their names were eliminated as the Grand Prize nominees at the end.


2016 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2016 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament will take place March 8–12, 2016 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia The champion will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament.


2016 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top 12 teams were eligible for the tournament, Florida A&M is ineligible for postseason play due to APR Sanctions.


2016 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2016 MENA Golf Tour
The 2016 MENA Golf Tour was the 6th season of the MENA Golf Tour. Official World Golf Ranking points were introduced for MENA Golf Tour events during the season. The Ras Al Khaimah Classic was the first event to receive ranking points.


2016 MENA Golf Tour, Schedule
There were 16 events during the season. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of MENA Golf Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament.


2016 MENA Golf Tour, Schedule
The three events in South Africa were co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Big Easy Tour.


2016 MENA Golf Tour, Graduates
The top five players on the Order of Merit were:


2016 MFF Charity Cup
The 2016 MFF  Charity Cup is the 5th MFF Charity Cup, an annual Myanmar football match played between the winners of the previous season's Myanmar National League and 2015 General Aung San Shield. The match was contested by Ayeyawady United, the 2015 General Aung San Shield winners, and Yangon United, champions of the 2015 Myanmar National League. It is held at Aung San Stadium on 3 January 2016.


2016 MFF Charity Cup
This was Yangon United's 3rd Cup appearance and Ayeyawady United's 3rd.


2016 MFF Charity Cup, Background and pre-match
Yangon United qualified for the 2016 MFF Charity Cup as winners of the 2015 Myanmar National League. It was the club's fourth league title in 6 years. The other Charity Cup place went to Ayeyawady United, who defeated Yadanarbon FC by two goals to win the 2015 General Aung San Shield Final and retain the trophy. Yangon United made their fourth appearance in the Charity Cup; prior to this they won once (2013) and lost twice, most recently in 2014 against Kanbawza. By contrast, Ayeyawady United made their fourth Chairity Cup appearance, and won twice. They went into the match as holders of the Shield, having defeated Yadanarbon FC a year earlier. Both clubs had only twice met before in the Shield, when Ayeyawady United won by penalty(7-5) in 2012 and Yangon United won by one goal in 2013.


2016 MFF Charity Cup, Match, Team selection
Yangon United's coach did not choose Aung Wai Phyo and Marcelo Fernandez. Yangon United F.C. choose Ayeyawady United F.C. former player Kyaw Min Oo in their first line-up. Ayeyawady United Coach,U Kyaw Lwin did't take Aung Hein Kyaw and Sa Htet Naing Win.


2016 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2016 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament was the state championship tournament for boy's ice hockey in Massachusetts, held from February 29 to March 20. The tournament involved 10 teams in play to determine the state champion of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA).


2016 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament
Malden Catholic defeated St. John's Prep 2–1 to win the program's 5th MIAA Division 1A title.


2016 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The Catholic Conference and Middlesex League had 3 teams receive a berth in the tournament, while the Catholic Central League, Merrimack Valley Conference, and Catholic West Hockey Conference had one team receive a berth. An independent program, Hingham, also received a berth.


2016 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament, Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime; ** denotes double overtime; *** denotes double overtime and shootout


2016 MLS All-Star Game
The 2016 Major League Soccer All-Star Game, the 21st annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game, took place on July 28, 2016 (7:30 p.m. EDT, 4:30 p.m. local time) at Avaya Stadium, the home of the San Jose Earthquakes. The game was televised live on ESPN and Univision in the United States, and on TSN and RDS in Canada. The game featured the MLS All-Star team playing English side Arsenal, with the match being a preseason friendly for Arsenal as part of their tour of California.


2016 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, MLS All-Stars
The MLS All Star Fan XI was announced on July 9, 2016, however members of this XI were not guaranteed a slot in the 22 man game day squad.


2016 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, MLS All-Stars
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, Arsenal
On July 22 Arsenal announced a 25-man traveling squad for the MLS All-Star game:


2016 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, Arsenal
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 MLS Cup Playoffs
The 2016 MLS Cup Playoffs (branded as the 2016 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs for sponsorship reasons) began on October 26, and ended on December 10 with MLS Cup 2016, the 21st league championship match for MLS. This was the 21st version of the MLS Cup Playoffs, the tournament culminating the Major League Soccer regular season.


2016 MLS Cup Playoffs
Twelve teams (the top 6 per conference) competed. The first round of each conference had the third-seeded team hosting the sixth seed while the fourth-seed hosted the fifth in a single match to determine who advanced to the Conference Semifinals. In the Conference Semifinals, the top seed played the lowest remaining seed while the second played the next-lowest. The winners advanced to the Conference Finals. Both the Conference Semifinals and Conference Finals were played as two-legged aggregate series. The winners advanced to the MLS Cup, a single match hosted by the participant with the better record.


2016 MLS Cup Playoffs
Seattle Sounders FC defeated Toronto FC 5–4 on penalties to win their first ever MLS Cup. The game ended scoreless after extra time.


2016 MLS Cup Playoffs
It was the first MLS Cup in league history that two expansion teams participated in the final. It was also the first time in the league's history that a Canadian MLS team competed in the MLS Cup.


2016 MLS Cup Playoffs, Conference standings
The top 6 teams from each conference advance to the MLS Cup playoffs. Green background denotes also qualified for 2018 CONCACAF Champions League.


2016 MLS Expansion Draft
The 2016 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion teams Atlanta United FC and Minnesota United FC. Atlanta United was selected to pick first by an "Expansion Priority Draft" conducted on October 16, 2016. Protected rosters are based on an MLS release from December 12, 2016.


2016 MLS Expansion Draft, Format
These are the rules for the 2016 MLS Expansion Draft as laid out by Major League Soccer.


2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft
The two-stage 2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 16, 2016 (Stage 1) and December 22, 2016 (Stage 2). All 22 Major League Soccer clubs were eligible to participate. The priority order for the Re-Entry Draft was reverse order of finish in 2016, taking into account playoff performance. The two 2017 expansion teams, Atlanta United FC  and Minnesota United FC, had selections 21 and 22, respectively.


2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft
Available to all teams in Stage 1 of the Re-Entry draft were:


2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft
Players who were not selected in Stage 1 of the Re-Entry Draft were made available in Stage 2. Clubs selecting players in Stage 2 were able to negotiate a new salary with the player. Players who remained unselected after Stage 2 were made available to any MLS club on a first-come, first-served basis.


2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft
Teams also had the option of passing on their selection.


2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Available players
Players were required to meet age and service requirements to participate as stipulated by the terms of the MLS Collective Bargaining Agreement. The league released a list of all players available for the Re-Entry Draft on December 16, 2016.


2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage One
The first stage of the 2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 16, 2016.


2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage Two
The second stage of the 2016 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 22, 2016.