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By Dennis BoxEditor, Enumclaw Courier-Herald

It is called e Mile. e Longacres Mile is the longest-running profes-sional sporting event in the state.Over the decades the Mile continues to be the marque

sporting event in the third week of August. e Mile, a grade 3 handicap stakes race with a $200,000

purse, draws many of the top thoroughbreds from across the country.

e two-turn classic was born Aug. 24, 1935, because Longacres founder Joe Gottstein thought Washington thoroughbreds needed a highlight race.

In 1935 the added purse was $10,000, the richest mile in the country, and the winner was Coldwater. e 20-1 long shot Coldwater was facing the grandson of Man o War, Bi .

In the stretch, Bi , carrying an extra 16 pounds, tired, and Coldwater won by a neck.

e 2011 winner of the Mile, Awesome Gem, trained by Craig Dollase for West Point oroughbreds, was highest earner to win the race at $2.6 million and tied for the oldest with Little Rollo, 1951, and Gigantic, 1959, at 8 years old.

Awesome Gem had lost to Howard Belvoir-conditioned Assessment in 2009. In 2011 the gelding broke the seven-race win streak of Noosa Beach, winner of the 2010 Mile.

e Doris Harwood-trained gelding won 10 of 12 races stretching across 2010 and 2011. Noosa Beach was honored as Horse of the Meet in 2010 and 2011. Noosa Beach and Awesome Gem may very well line up in the

gates again for the 2012 edition of the Longacres Mile Aug. 19.

Other horses to watch as the Mile series of stakes races gets under way with the Governors Handicap May 20 will be Gallant Son and Posse Power, both trained by Frank Lucarelli, and Hollywood Harbor conditioned by Chris Stenslie.

Another horse ready to challenge the older boys is 3-year-old champion, Jebrica. Winner of the Emerald Downs Derby, receiving a 98 Beyer speed gure, Jebrica is conditioned by Hall of Fame trainer Jim Penney, who

has already won the Longacres Mile a record ve times. Penney knows the way to the winners circle.

Hes All Heart, Larry Wolf-trained for Vic-Tory Sta-bles, is another Washington-bred horse to watch as the Mile series progresses. Couldabenthewhisky and Zayda also could show up in the Mile gate.

And one sure bet is that as the season rolls on there will be surprises.

A er the Governors Handicap, the next in the Mile series is the Budweiser Handicap, June 17. e Mt. Rainier Handicap is July 22.

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By Shawn SkagerStaff Writer

Life is all about passion for Leslie Mawing.Its evident when the 38-year-old jockey talks about his personal life as a husband and father of three. Its also apparent when he speaks about his professional life guiding swift steads around the track.

Last year, Mawing rode that passion to the riding title at Emerald Downs, piling up 129 wins in the 2011 session. This season hes hoping it will guide him to a repeat title when the tracks 2012 session opens Friday.

Mawings passion for thoroughbred racing was fostered

at an early age in his native South Africa.My dad owned horses, so I always went to the track

with him, Mawing said. I was working part time for a trainer, just working horses in the morning.

Although Mawing whose older brother Anthony is also a jockey said horse racing is in his blood, his father envisioned a different path for him.

He never wanted me to be a jockey, he said. I guess he knew what it involved as far as the dangers. He always wanted me to become an ac-countant or a lawyer.

Mawing tried to honor his fathers wishes after graduating from high school.

I kind of went in that direction for a little while, but it didnt appeal to me, he said. It wasnt my passion.

After his father passed away, Mawing took a break from school to backpack around Europe.

After that, he traveled to Southern California where his brother was working as a jockey.

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It wasnt long before the call to ride become too great to ignore.

There was no way of stopping me from being a jockey, he said.

On the advice of jockey agent Tony Matos, Mawing headed north to Idahos Les Bois Park where he got his rst win in 1994 at the age of 20.

I got a late start, he said. A lot of the guys that become jockeys, they start way younger, at 17 or 18.

Mawing has overcome any negatives from his late start on the track, however, and in recent years has become one of the top West Coast jockeys, racing mainly at Californias Golden Gate Field and Emer-ald Downs.

In 2008 he found success aboard the Frank Lucarelli-trained Gallant Son, riding him in the Breeders Cup.

A year later Mawing overcame the worst injury of his career, a fractured tibia and bula sustained when his steed crashed through the inner rail at Golden Gate.

I had a rod and three screws put in, he said. I still have two screws in there. And I dont think theyre going to take those out. So they will probably be in there for the rest of my life.

The seriousness of the injury didnt ham-per Mawings passion for riding.

Its all part of being a jockey, Mawing said. (Quitting) crosses your mind, but you cant dwell on it. If you start dwell-ing on it you should get out of the sport, because you cant have any fear during the races. When you have fear you make unsound judgement calls, and thats going to make it 10 times worse for you and your fellow riders. Its a split-second thought, Geez, did I choose the right career? But at

the end of the day your passion overcomes it. Your passion for the horse racing itself. And you remember all the good things.

In 2009 and 2010 Mawing took a break from racing at Emerald Downs to try his luck back east, racing at tracks in Ohio, Minnesota and West Virginia.

Back east its a different lifestyle because there are so many tracks so close, he said. Youre constantly going from one track to the next track to the next

track. You could pretty much ride two tracks in a day. And thats what I was doing, riding Thistledown (in Ohio) in the afternoon and then driving to Mountaineer (in West Vir-ginia) and riding at night. I just totally got burnt out, though. I was losing too much time with my kid, we only had one at the time. And for me, family comes rst.

In 2011, family also played into Mawings decision to race full-time at Emerald Downs.

I started off good at Golden Gate, he said. When I left I was third in the standings in wins and purse money. I wasnt going to leave, but my kids were missing me a lot. Every time I would go home for three days, when Id leave they would cry. And that just got to me. I just couldnt continue doing that, because when I was in California I could only go home once every few weeks.

After securing the home front with weekly commutes from Washington to his home in Idaho, Mawing concentrated on putting together a breakout year at the Auburn track.

Everything just worked out and fell into place last year, all the stars were aligned, he said.

This year, Mawing is excited about his

chances at a repeat.Ive been working with Gallant Son,

who I rode in the Breeders Cup, Maw-ing said. Hes been working really hard. Frank (Lucarelli) has a lot of great young horses. Ive been working with Winning Machine, who is working great. Hes had some time off and hes coming into the races fresh.

He said hes also looking forward to riding horses trained by Chris Stenslie, Jim Penney and Doris Harwood.

I know its going to be a tough year be-cause weve got some good riders coming

back, Mawing said.Although Mawing admits he is looking

to the future, he has no immediate plans to quit riding.

Ive always had a good business mind on me, so Ive always looked at other things, Mawing said. But I enjoy being a jockey, its my passion. Of course Ive looked down the line at other things, but if Russell Baze is still going strong at 53, I can do it. I have short-term goals and long-term goals. Down the line Id like to have my hand in the horse business. Maybe as a steward or a horse owner eventually.

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Jockey Leslie Mawing has found a way to balance his family life with working in the demanding sport of thoroughbred horse racing. PHOTO COURTESY, Emerald Downs

Ive always had a good business mind on me, so Ive always looked at other things. But I enjoy being a jockey, its my passion. Leslie Mawing

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BY SHAWN SKAGER

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Walking away would have been the easier choice for Auburn Riverside senior Spencer Jones.

ree years ago Jones

who has been wrestling since age 4 was an up-and-coming, 135-pound freshman on the Raven squad. His wrestling future looked bright.

BY SHAWN SKAGER

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You can learn a lot of lifes lessons in 19 years of coaching.

For Auburn Mountain-view girls basketball coach Chris Carr, who retires from coaching at the end of the season, the lessons hes learned from athletes hes coached will continue to resonate.

ere is not one game that Ill remember forever, Carr said. Its like I always tell the kids, its the journey, not the destination. But Ill always remember the kids that had an impact on me and my life. Even in a non-basketball way.

Carrs journey in coach-ing began in 1994 when he took the helm of the White

River girls basketball team.For the next two years,

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nets, building the founda-tion of a program that would nish eighth in the

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Ravens senior Spencer Jones mixes it up with district rival Bailey Mineer of Auburn High School. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

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Joe and David Holden will have the opportunity of a lifetime this summer.

For David, 37, its a chance to lead the USA Junior Karate team at the 19th annual Maccabiah Games on July 17-30 in Israel.

For Joe, 15, an Auburn Mountain-view High School student, its a chance to compete on his fathers team.

e Maccabiah Games, which are staged every four years following the Olympics, attract more than 7,000 athletes of Jewish-descent from 60 countries. It is the third largest inter-national sporting event in the world.

Its extremely exciting, David said. is is the highest level Ive been able to coach at, so thats exciting, and I get to coach Joe and other athletes from all over the country.

For the past seven years, the Holdens have competed and trained with the Japan Karate Federation Northwest team based at the Auburn Valley Y.

David was rst approached about competing in the games four years ago.

I wasnt able to compete at that time because of injuries, he said. But my son was up and coming at the time, so I asked him if he would be interested in competing. He was gung ho about it. Its been his goal for the last few years.

e Holdens travelled to Miami in December to qualify for the USA Maccabiah Junior Karate team.

Joe did wonderfully. He did a great job and was immediately accepted for the team, David said.

At the same event, David who has coached the Auburn Y team at national events for the past couple of years was approached about leading the U.S. Junior Karate team. He ap-plied and was chosen.

David is excited about the upcom-ing games and the chance to experi-ence a foreign culture.

e competition part is only one piece of it, he said. e rst week is the Israel Connects program, where they take you around to see all the

history. I love history, so knowing that everywhere you turn, youre going to be looking at history that is much older than the U.S. is exciting.

(But) a er the rst week, its time to knuckle down and train, David said. Its very cool. Its di erent than most competitions where its go, train, compete and leave.

All that remains for David and Joe is raising money to fund the trip and inclusion in the games.

Every person makes a yachad commitment. Yachad is a Hebrew word, which means together, and every person makes a commitment to raise a certain amount, David said.

For David and Joe, that amount is $10,500 between them.

We have a couple of sponsorships and donations already, David said.

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en, just a er the league tourney, during a visit to the doctor, Jones got bad news. He had spinal stenosis.

My bone is too big for my spinal cord, so in certain conditions it pinches my spi-nal cord, Jones said. It was really hard to hear. I cried when I got the news.

Spinal stenosis is a nar-rowing of the spinal column that puts pressure on the nerves there. e condition o en le Jones le arm numb and useless, with pain like electric shocks shooting down his arm. Something as simple as rolling on his neck

the wrong way, Jones said, would bring on the pain.

I didnt believe it at rst, I didnt think something like that could happen, Jones said. ey said it was just something that I grew into.

Although his doctor told him he would most likely grow out of the condition by age 25, Jones made the tough choice and curtailed his on-the-mat career.

e doctor never really gave me a no, Jones said. He told me that the choice was mine.

Despite choosing not to wrestle, Jones couldnt completely remove himself

from the gym.As a sophomore, I helped

score, video tape, set up mats, anything I could help with, he said.

Recognizing Jones dedi-cation to the sport, Raven wrestling coach Steve Mead made an unusual decision.

I decided not to make him a manager, Mead said. I decided to make him a coach. He probably wasnt old enough as a sophomore for the other kids to buy in and believe he could help. So I put him in charge of the younger kids.

By the time Jones was a junior, Mead said, he had progressed and was working

with all of the wrestlers on the squad.

Although he got a bit of a wrestling x helping his teammates, Jones said it was still hard to stay away from the mat.

It was really hard, Id sometimes go home really depressed, he said.

To ll the void he found a new hobby.

I started culinary arts, and that became my new thing, Jones said. I plan on opening a restaurant some day.

Despite his newfound passion for cooking, Jones said, he couldnt pass up his nal chance to wrestle as a prep athlete.

is year, as a senior, I couldnt take watching the other kids wrestle, so I decided to give it a shot, he said.

Mead said that when the time came for the squad to vote on team captains this year, the team overwhelm-ingly picked Jones.

ey voted him a captain without even knowing he was going to wrestle this year, Mead said.

Although Jones admits that his comeback hasnt been spectacular results-wise he is 1-3 in dual competitions and recently won the Bonney Lake junior varsity tournament the whole experience has taught

him a valuable lesson. LIfe throws tough stu

at you, he said. You cant stay at home and stay sorry for yourself. You just have to pick yourself up.

And, more important, it showed him that its possible to stay involved in the sport he loves a er his on-the-mat wrestling career ends.

Id love to become a head coach, Jones said.

Mead said it would be a perfect t for Jones.

I dont see most of the kids going into coaching, Mead said. I talk to all the kids about refereeing and giving back to the sport. But Spencer I see going on and coaching.

Joe and David Holden recently earned the chance to represent the United States of America in Karate at the 19th annual Maccabiah Games this summer in Israel. The duo is raising money to fund their trip to the games. PHOTO COURTESY, David Holden

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Team W L W LKentwood 5 0 5 0Auburn 4 1 4 1Tahoma 3 1 3 2Jeerson 2 2 2 3Kentlake 2 2 3 2Kentridge 2 2 2 3Kent-Meridian 1 3 1 4Auburn Riverside 1 4 1 4Mt. Rainier 0 5 0 5

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Although he certainly took his lumps that rst year including a devas-tating fumble on a kicko during the Huskies 67-56 Alamo Bowl loss to Bay-lor Shelton progressed and matured, playing in all of the Huskies games and earning his rst start against Washington State in the Apple Cup.

is year, the promise of that freshman year is beginning to pay o for Shelton, 19, who is the teams starting nose tackle as a sophomore.

I think it was pretty dif-cult coming in as a fresh-man I was pretty young, Shelton said. e older guys were so much faster, stronger and just smarter at how they played. I had to grow up my game just to compete against them.

Shelton credits his team-mates, especially fellow defensive linemen Alameda Taamu and Everrette ompson both now graduated and seniors Talia Crichton and Semisi Tokolahi with helping him adjust to the ow and physicality of the college game.

Shelton said he also struggled to grasp his role at rst.

It was kind of hard to actually understand our

defense with Coach Holts (former defensive coordi-nator Nick Holt) system, Shelton said. It was hard for me to understand what to do in some situations. But the upperclassmen re-ally helped me get it down. I really feel like it would have been harder if they hadnt helped me get it down. And just knowing your assign-ments and alignments.

Coach Sark (head coach Steve Sarkisian) talks about knowing what youre sup-posed to do will make you faster, Shelton said. I feel like this year this is really happening for me. I know my plays very well, and I think that Im faster because I know my plays.

O the eld, Shelton said adjusting to living away from home for the rst time was hard, even though home was just 27 miles south.

I got homesick, even though I live just down the freeway, he said. My fam-ily would come up and see me and Id go home almost

every other weekend.I feel like it was pretty

hard transitioning from high school to college edu-cation also, Shelton said. I guess the support from our academic sta has been great. ey really helped me and showed me the way to go. I had tutors and Id stay in with my advisor and just talk about class. at really helped me.

Although Shelton said he felt he could have done better, he shined academi-cally last year, earning a 3.57 GPA and making the deans list for winter quarter. He hasnt declared a major yet.

My mom is pushing me to get a degree in something that will actually benet me in the future, Shelton said. My backup plan aer

football is to be a police ocer. But I dont really know. Its always interested me since I was a kid. And its the second-closest thing to football, being physical and being able to physically tackle people. Its a pretty cool thing. And being able to do it for a cause, to pro-tect people.

Right now, though, it is all about focusing on the task at hand and improving on last years 7-6 record, which included a 5-4 third-place Pac-12 nish.

Our nish didnt really bother me, he said. I just felt like I had a lot to learn. It was my rst year and I felt like I had three other years to go. ere were some things that I learned later in the season that I wish I had learned earlier.

I feel that the coaches did a really good job (this summer) bringing us together as a defense. e oense, too, he said. We really bonded together and got to know the coaches, too. ats a big part of our season right now. Just them knowing our strengths and weaknesses.

So far for the Huskies, its paid o. UW is 3-1, with its only loss coming at No. 4 LSU. Despite the 41-13 loss in Death Valley, Shelton put together a ne game against the Tigers, notching

a career-high 10 tackles.On Sept. 27, the Husky

defense showcased their prowess in a 17-13 win over high-powered Stanford, then the No. 8 team in the country.

It really didnt hit me until later when I was go-ing home, Shelton said. I felt that the game was still going on. It was just weird. I saw the coaches really excited. I saw Coach Wilcox (defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox) jumping on Coach Lupoi (defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi). at was pretty exciting to see. But that didnt hit me until later on, for some reason. I guess I was still in the game, I was still waiting to go back into the game.

e win earned the Hus-kies a No. 23 ranking.

ings wont get any easier for the Huskies this weekend. UW heads to Eugene, Ore. on Saturday (7:30 p.m., ESPN) looking for another upset, this one against the No. 2 Oregon Ducks.

I think that Oregon is a beatable team aer watch-ing all the lm on them, Shelton said. ey have some weaknesses and they have some strengths, but we have the same. Its just about what team is going to come in and start fast and nish hard.

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Danny Shelton, 71, prepares to take the eld at Century Link against Portland State. CHARLES CORTES, Auburn Reporter

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You could barely hear Auburn football coach Gordon Elliott as he addressed the Trojans a er their 21-19 state Class 4A semi nal loss to Bellarmine Prep last Saturday night at the Tacoma Dome.

Just a few yards away the jubilant Lions (12-1) and their fans noisily celebrated the win and a berth in this weekends state championship against No. 1 Skyline (13-0).

For the unranked Trojans (10-3), there was no joy, no slaps on the back.

For the warriors of Troy, there was merely a third-place trophy, plenty of tears and a quiet bus ride home.

Despite the din, Elliotts words to his dispirited program rang out loud and clear.

It hurts because of how much time you put in, Elliott told his players. ere are only two teams

in the whole state that are still in it. You fought a great battle. Hold your heads high. Nobody in the state expected us to be here. It only hurts because of how much we put into it.

A er nishing 4-6 and miss-ing the playo s last year and kicking o the season with a 31-6 drubbing to South Puget Sound League North rival Kentwood nobody expected much from Auburn.

Somebody forgot to tell the Trojans that, however, as they reeled o a 7-1 league record and swept through the postseason, notching wins against Olympia, Eastmont of Wenatchee and h-ranked Mead of Spokane, becom-ing the only unranked team in the 4A nal four.

Against the Lions, Auburn proved it belonged in the Dome, slugging it out with No. 4 Bel-larmine.

e Trojans struck rst on their opening-game drive, with senior Harold Lee capping a 10-

play, 69-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown. Lee nished the game with a team-high 10 carries for 96 yards. e conversion kick was no good.

e Lions responded with Colorado-bound quarterback Sefo Liufua engineering a 79-yard drive and capping it with a 1-yard TD run.

Liufua also threw a 66-yard touchdown pass to Drew Gri n in the second quarter for a 14-6 Lions lead at hal ime.

In the third quarter, Auburn senior fullback Jacob Waldo gal-loped 38 yards to the end zone. e Trojans failed to convert on the two-point conversion, leaving

the score at 14-12.In the fourth quarter, Liu-

fua found Garrett McKay from 21-yards out, putting Bellarmine up 21-12 with 8:31 le to play. Liufua nished with 6-of-13 pass-ing for 124 yards, an interception and two touchdowns.

Auburn closed the gap to 21-19 with a Darnell Hagans 70-yard run with 6:30 remaining.

e Trojans were unable to stop running back Lou Millie, who helped the Lions grind out the nal minutes of the game and earn their shot at the title.

Bellarmine takes on Skyline at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Dome for the crown.

I thought it was going to be a hard struggle, a hard physi-cal game, Elliott said. It was a great game, a great season. So close.

Hagans had 95 yards rushing with a TD and an interception. Junior quarterback Brier Atkinson nished with 3-of-5 passing for 36 yards and an interception.

Kieo Buchanan had 38 yards on nine carries.

We expected to be here. We fought every day at practice and every day through the week, Lee said. We put all that work in for this. is year working with my brothers, it was a great run for all of us.

Trojans come up short in state 4A semifinal playoff

Auburns Darnell Hagans ghts for yardage against the Bellarmine defense. Hagans ran for 95 yards and a touchdown in the Trojans 21-19 state 4A semi nal loss to the Lions. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

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Grocery stores departure is a big loss to community

Progress? No.It saddened me greatly to

learn of the Farmers Market grocery stores closing.

It had been a xture of Au-burn Way South for just over 10 years and supplied a greatly needed grocery source for that part of town. Although it was small, it had great meat and produce prices. We watched it grow from a simple dollar-type store to a real little gem of a grocery store that was fun to visit.

A er the small QFC store closed up by the casino, it became a very important store for that part of the city. Its de-parture will now create a hard-ship for a number of residents and a great inconvenience for many others. ere is no other full service, convenient grocery

store in that area of the city. Nor is there one that caters strongly to minorities.

e owners of the store were making a pro t and holding their own nancially. It was the property owner who decided not to renew the store lease that is causing this issue. Frankly, the

so-called progress of develop-ment is not progress in this case it is solely greed. Someones push for the almighty dollar this time will not cause progress, it will simply cause hardship for all those negatively a ected.

Farmers, we will miss you. Sondra Johnson

Kudos to Keith, Green Team

I recently had the pleasure to work with some of your incredible students on the Lakeland Hills Elementary School Green Team. Grace Shin, Tabetha Norris, Audrey Change, Grace Couey, Allison ompson and David Ander-son came to Uniquely Auburn on Sunday a ernoon (Jan. 27) to do a lobby presentation, be interviewed about what the team does and provide services for the event dinner.

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e famous baseball pitcher Satchel Paige used to say, Dont look back something might be gaining on you.

With all due respect to Satchel, Washington should glance over its shoulder be-cause something is gaining on us. Competing states are coming a er Washingtons economic pow-

erhouse: aerospace.One of those

competitors recently re-ceived a big boost from Forbes magazine. For the third year in a row, Forbes ranked Utah the Best State for Business. Meanwhile, Washington

slipped from seventh to 11th.Forbes rankings are based on

six business factors: costs, labor supply, economic climate, growth prospects, quality of life and for the rst time regulatory environ-ment. Utah was third; Washingtons regulatory environment ranked 38th, causing our deep slide. And theres more bad news: the most heavily weighted factor in the Forbes study is business costs, which include labor, energy costs

and taxes. In that all-important category, we ranked 27th.

Utah won high praise from Forbes, which wrote, No state can match the consistent performance of Utah. It is the only state that ranks among the top 15 states in each of the six main categories on which states are rated.

Alabama ranked near the bottom in many categories, but boasted the seventh-best regulatory environ-ment. at hasnt gone unnoticed.

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And what a super Super Bowl it was

Well, folks, another Super Bowl has come and gone.

Somehow last Sunday the National Foot-ball League once again wedged a game into breaks between commercials to settle the annual question of who the best team is.

And just in case youre one of those who use the breaks between million dollar com-mercials to refresh your drink or to pile another plate high with nachos, you missed quite a game, as the Baltimore Ravens fend-

ed o the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 to claim the Lombardi Trophy.

ats right. If you fell into a carbohydrate-in-duced coma aided by the comfort of that La-Z-Boy recliner during the more-than-30-minute power

outage at the New Orleans Superdome and are just now waking up, the 49ers erased a 28-6 de cit and made it a game.

How about that?A er the game I was brie y hopeful that

the competitive level of the contest would have been enough to erase a bit of the memory of the hype and hoopla that can overshadow the biggest football game in the world.

Now, however, mere days a er the game, I realize that it is in part the hype and hoopla that make the game so memorable. In my earnest, pure football fan heart I wish this werent so, but lets be real here the circus that played out at this years Super Bowl was just too juicy to deny.

So, to appease my pure football fan heart and satisfy my need for sensational human interest stories, Im going to list a few of the things that Ill remember about this years game, on and o the eld.

Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh. From a human interest angle, it doesnt get any better than

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$600 million over the next ve years to build an A320 assembly plant near Mobile, the rst Airbus facility in the United States. e company plans to assemble 40 to 50 A320 jets per year by 2017. Alabama, like South Caro-lina, is a right-to-work state.

Meanwhile, Boeing is opening a third plant in Utah to fabricate tail-section parts for the 787. e Salt Lake City plant will employ 100 people making an average of $65,000 a year. at brings Boeings Utah workforce to roughly 700.

ats small potatoes compared with the com-panys 83,000 workers in the Puget Sound area, but its a trend Washingtons elected ocials should not ignore.

Utahs rise to economic prominence didnt happen overnight. It has been a con-sistent long-term strategy initiated in 2004 by then-Gov. Jon Huntsman and Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert.

Today, aerospace and

aviation companies in Utah employ more than 10,000 people who provide engineer-ing, logistics support and maintenance for several U.S. Air Force jet ghter and cargo aircra programs, as well as the Minuteman III interconti-nental ballistic missile.

Janicki Industries, a family-owned cutting edge composite manufacturer headquartered in Sedro-Woolley, also located a $20 million aerospace plant in Utah to support the compa-nys work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Janicki is exactly the type of aerospace company Utah targets to recruit because its high-tech precision molds are the future of aerospace.

Herbert, who succeeded Huntsman, cites three areas where his state has a com-petitive advantage: taxes, labor force and a favorable regulatory climate. Last year, Gov. Herbert initiated a review of the states nearly 2,000 administrative rules, eliminating or modifying 368 regulations Herbert

characterized as a drag on the economy. Among the other pluses for Utah: energy costs that are 29 percent below the national average.

e Forbes ranking found a clear separation between right-to-work states and those that are not. All but one of the top 10 states has right-to-work laws. Of the bottom 10 states, only one is a right-to-work state.

Washington is unlikely to become a right-to-work state. But to compete with states that are, legislators need to level the playing eld by reducing Washing-tons regulatory burden and lowering business costs.

Competition for Wash-ingtons aerospace jobs will only intensify in the future, so state lawmakers shouldnt assume that, just because companies like Boeing and Janicki are here now, they will be here forever.

Don Brunell is the president of the Association of Washing-ton Business. For learn more, visit www.awb.org.

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head coaching brothers Jim (San Francisco) and John (Baltimore) squaring o in a Super Bowl. Heres a bonus question for you: which brother is the youngest? If you guessed Jim, based on the sheer amount of attention-seeking tantrums and headphone tossing on the sidelines, you got it right! Jim is 49, John, 50.

Joe Flacco. Before the game much of the tongue wagging about the h-year starting quarterback for the Ravens touched on whether he was an elite quarter-back. In four games during Baltimores playo run this season, Flacco earned a 117.2 quarterback rating, throwing 11 touchdowns with no interceptions. In New Orleans Flacco nished 22-of-33 in the air with three touchdowns, earn-ing himself the Super Bowl XLVII Most Valuable Player award. Welcome to Club Elite, Mr. Flacco.

Out go the lights. Not exactly sure what happened here, but during the opening minutes of the third quarter half of the power at the Superdome went out. And

stayed out for an agonizing 34 minutes, delaying the game. Although the cause of the outage is still under investigation, reports are that an abnormality was detected in the power sys-tem, triggering an automatic shutdown. Personally, Im thinking that the where-abouts of all employees of CBS TV the network that aired the game should be veried. With 30 seconds of commercial air time ringing up an average of $4 million, the extra commercial time must have been a boon for the network. Just saying.

Jacoby Jones return. e Baltimore speedster and kick returner made history with the longest return in the history of the Super Bowl. Jones took the open-ing kicko of the second half on Bourbon Street and returned it 1.4 miles for a touchdown. OK, 108 yards, but thats still a long, long way.

Ray Lewis. e nal thing I think Ill remember about this years game was the Saga of Ray Lewis. Always a controversial gure because of his troubled past Lewis was indicted on murder and aggravated assault charges

for his involvement in the stabbing deaths of two men at a club in Atlanta in 2000 and eventually pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice Lewis did noth-ing to change the minds of detractors leading up to this years game.

Lewis was accused of us-ing deer antler velvet spray to speed his recovery from a torn tricep this season. Deer antler velvet spray is banned as a performance enhancing drug by the NFL. Deer ant-ler velvet spray is also fun to type. Seriously, try it. Deer antler velvet spray. Anyway, Lewis responded by calling the allegations a trick of the devil designed to distract him from the task at hand. Next time Satan should probably try harder. Lewis nished the game, his last as an NFL player, with seven tackles, four solo and three assisted, and, more impor-tant, a Super Bowl ring.

Lewis was last seen riding o into the sunset astride a mighty 12-point buck, wav-ing the Lombardi Trophy in the air, hollering, Take that, Beelzeebub!

Hows that for hype and hoopla folks? I cant wait for next year. Go Hawks.

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