Our 16 Most 2016 Stories of 2016

By Joe Parello (@HerewegoJoe)

So yeah, 2016 was really something, eh?

I know most people are ready for this year to end, what with all the celebrity deaths, political vitriol and whatnot, but there were some good things to come out of 2016!

The Cubs won the World Series and the Cavs won the NBA Finals, remember? I member.

Also, SuiteSports.com enjoyed its greatest year ever, though admittedly that came partly because ESPN Boston stopped covering high school sports, which was bad news for pretty much everybody involved with our site, and local high school sports.

Yep, 2016 was a mixed bag, so I'm not gonna give you a best/worst list of stories, I'm just going to give you the 16 stories we did that were quintessentially 2016.

Bob Lobel: Is It Ever a Happy New Year?

By Bob Lobel (@boblobel)

It never fails. 

In the beginning we insist on wishing people we don’t know, never want to know, and never ever will look up and make eye contact with, a happy new year.

We wish it because we know it is just whistling past the grave yard. There is no dreaded commitment to making someone's new year happy. Based on year after year of personal experience and the body of knowledge that goes with it, there is no such thing as a happy new year.