This current year has a bad reputation.
Sure, celebrity deaths seemed particularly cruel, movies particularly awful, and perhaps there were other miscellaneous causes of stress.
As we started compiling our annual top 10 stories of the year, we began to realize that the overall crapiness most people associated with 2016 didn’t exactly apply to local sports.
Ever since both the DeKalb and Sycamore football teams reached the semifinals, we tried wrapping our brains around which is the bigger story. One of them would have to be the No. 1 story of the year and one would have to be the runner-up.