Lenovo announces 1.1Lbs IdeaTab S2 Android 4.0 Tablet

Lenovo steps up its Android Tablet portfolio with the IdeaTab S2, a 10-inch 1.1Lbs super sleek and thin tablet. IdeaTab S2 features the new Qualcomm? Snapdragon 8960 dual core CPU and Android 4.0 operating systems to offer a better multimedia? experience. Running Lenovo Mondrian UI, the user-friendly IdeaTab S2 10? displays customized content? and includes easy access to the Lenovo App Shop and the Android Market for thousands of useful apps such as Amazon Kindle, ooVoo, Angry bird and mSpot. Its detachable design, combined with a light keyboard dock, can deliver an incredible 20 hours of battery life, which is great for both entertainment and productivity.

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Four Screens Are Better than One with Lenovo?s New ?Personal Cloud? Vision
Latest Product Development Links Gadgets in Pockets, Briefcases and Home

CES 2012, Las Vegas ? January 8, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY), the world?s number two
PC company, is flexing its innovation muscle at this year?s Consumer Electronics Show and beyond, to
create a seamless digital experience for its customers across multiple devices, be it PCs, tablets,
smartphones or Smart TVs. Lenovo recently unveiled its ?Personal Cloud? vision, marking the
transformation of the company from a ?personal computer? manufacturer to a ?personal cloud solution?
provider that integrates hardware, software and cloud computing together. The Company?s direction is
evident in a variety of new products, including the IdeaTab S2, Smartphone S2 and K91 smart TV.
?Lenovo is breaking down the barriers of device differentiation and weaving together hardware, software
and cloud services that are connected, experiential and dynamic,? said Liu Jun, senior vice president and
president, Mobile Internet and Digital Home business group. ?We understand our users need more than
just the traditional keyboard and screen for a truly satisfying digital experience. Our Personal Cloud vision
integrates all devices, from tablets to TVs, for a comprehensive mobile Internet experience anytime,
anywhere.

IdeaTab S2 10 Struts New Specs and Multimedia Prowess
Thinner than its predecessors, the IdeaTab S2 10-inch is just one-third of an inch thin and at a feather light
1.1lbs is one of the lightest 10-inch tablets available today. IdeaTab S2 features the new Qualcomm
Snapdragon 8960 dual core CPU and Android 4.0 operating systems to offer a better multimedia
experience. Running Lenovo Mondrian UI, the user-friendly IdeaTab S2 10? displays customized content
and includes easy access to the Lenovo App Shop and the Android Market for thousands of useful apps
such as Amazon Kindle, ooVoo, Angry bird and mSpot. Its detachable design, combined with a light
keyboard dock, can deliver an incredible 20 hours of battery life, which is great for both entertainment and productivity.

S2 Smartphone Boasts Security and Photography Creds
The S2 smartphone includes the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon technology and Android 2.3 operating
system. Both devices include a unique Kernel-level security system to protect personal data, prevent
phishing, and control network and SMS traffic. Users can also take advantage of its 8MP super camera to
capture amazing panoramic photos on the go. S2 is also ready for the Cloud, and instantly syncs photos,
music, videos and personal information with a dedicated online storage space for easy sharing across
multiple devices.

K91?the World?s First Smart TV to Run Android 4.0 OS
As the world?s first smart TV powered by QualComm?s 8060 Snapdragon dual core CPU, the K91 is also
the world?s first smart TV running the Android 4.0 operating system ? which will revolutionize technology in the living room. Its smart ?Sandwich? UI unites three major smart TV functions, including Video On
Demand (VOD), Internet applications and traditional TV programs. The online HD VOD is tailored to
individual consumers? viewing history, and delivers the best picture and audio quality with 3D FPR
technology delivering flicker-free video on a full HD IPS panel at 240hz with SRS TruSurround. Internet
applications include thousands of choices from the Android Market and Lenovo Store, including console
games. Additional smart TV features include voice control with natural language processing and speech
recognition technology, allowing viewers to use voice commands to control the remote. Video interaction
is even possible with the built-in 5MP webcam, which integrates face recognition technology for security
benefits and advanced parental control. With cloud support, consumers can access their favorite songs
and videos with ease, share files between the TV and their tablet, smartphone or PC, and even control
the TV via tablet and smartphone.
The IdeaTab S2 tablet, S2 smartphone and K91 smart TV are available immediately in China. Lenovo will
be releasing these products worldwide at a later date. More information on these products is available at
www.lenovo.com
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About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a $US21 billion personal technology company ? and the second
largest PC company in the world, serving customers in more than 160 countries. Dedicated to building
exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo?s business is built on product
innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution. Formed by Lenovo
Group?s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops,
manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and
services. Its product lines include legendary Think-branded commercial PCs and Idea-branded consumer
PCs, as well as servers, workstations, and a family of mobile internet devices, including tablets and smart
phones. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, China; and Raleigh, North
Carolina. For more information, see www.lenovo.com.

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Is Robert Trivers Deceiving Himself about Evolutionary Psychology's Flaws?

In 1995, I critiqued evolutionary psychology in ?The New Social Darwinists,? an article in the December issue of Scientific American. Afterwards I got a scathing letter from Robert Trivers, whose work on altruism, parent-offspring conflict and other tendencies helped lay the foundations for evolutionary psychology, which like its precursor sociobiology attempts to explain human thought and behavior in Darwinian terms. Trivers called my article ?shallow? and accused me of ?acting out the old Scientific American?s long-standing inability to look at human sociobiology objectively.? I was annoyed at the implication that I was just parroting the magazine?s party line. And yet the letter stung, not because I agreed with Trivers but because I respected him; unlike some of the hacks who jumped on the Darwinian bandwagon, he is a truly original thinker.

I recalled that letter when I reviewed Triver?s book The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (Basic Books, 2011) for The New York Times. (I proposed ?Everyone Is Self-Deluded But Me,? as a headline for the review, but the Times went with the bland ?Why We Lie.?) I wanted to like the book, and I did. It?s a weirdly compelling hybrid of personal memoir and scientific treatise, which explores why we lie to others and to our selves. Natural selection, Trivers proposes, bequeathed us the gift of deception because it helped our ancestors do what they needed to do to propagate their genes, such as charming mates and tricking rivals. And we often deceive ourselves because those of us who are not sociopaths lie more effectively if we believe our lies.

I withheld one reservation about Folly. Trivers never really addresses an issue fundamental to any consideration of self-deceit. By what criteria do we decide that this person is fooling himself and that person isn?t? Or that we aren?t fooling ourselves? How can we distinguish truth from lies, or substantive claims from what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt calls ?bullshit?? This is the same puzzle that has plagued philosophers from Plato to Karl Popper. Popper asserted that scientists must constantly test their theories against reality, by gathering observations and performing experiments. But as Thomas Kuhn pointed out, scientists, being emotional as well as rational creatures, often become so committed to a theory that they refuse to acknowledge contrary evidence.

Trivers touches on these conundrums when he turns his attention to science. His judgment of scientists can be, well, scathing. Science has succeeded, he notes, because of ?a series of built-in devices that guard against deceit and self-deception at every turn,? and yet even scientists in the most rigorous disciplines are subject to, at the very least, an inflated self-image. Physicists ?talk of producing a theory of everything and make other grand claims, but their social utility, in my opinion, is connected primarily to warfare,? Trivers writes. ?Their major function has been to build bigger bombs, delivered more accurately to farther distances.? I disagree with that statement?just for starters, physicists have given us computers and a better understanding of the cosmos?but I get a kick imagining how some snooty physicists will react to it.

I agree with Trivers that scientists are especially prone to self-deception when they turn their attention to humanity itself. He proposes that ?the greater the social content of a discipline, the more slowly it will develop, because it faces, in part, greater forces of deceit and self-deception.? Trivers notes that social sciences can all too easily be corrupted by moral, political and ideological biases. He takes predictable swipes at psychoanalysis, which he calls a ?hoax,? and economics, which tends to be ?blind to the possibility that unrestrained pursuit of personal utility can have disastrous effects on group benefit.? Yes, our current recession demonstrates as much.

Trivers concedes that evolutionary biology has spawned some harmful notions. As an example, he cites the odious claim of the Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz that a species will be more fit if only the strongest, most aggressive males mate with females.?Trivers nonetheless insists that the social sciences can only benefit from incorporating evolutionary theory and genetics. He is especially harsh toward cultural anthropology, which he accuses of having ?made a tragic left turn in the mid-1970s from which it has yet to recover (at least in the United States).??In other words, cultural anthropologists oppose biological accounts of human behavior for political rather than scientific reasons.

Actually, some cultural anthropologists, notably Clifford Geertz of Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, sincerely believed that sociobiology and other biological theories fail to account for human malleability and cultural diversity and go too far in reducing extremely complex behaviors to innate impulses. Trivers himself indulges in this sort of theorizing when he claims, in Folly, that we have ?been selected to rape on occasion, to wage aggressive war when it suits us, and to abuse our own children if this brings some compensatory return benefit.?

He adds, ?I embrace none of these actions.? Well, I?m glad that Trivers doesn?t ?embrace? rape, war and child abuse, but I still have a problem with his assertion that these behaviors are innate. According to my reading, and that of many scientists, the evidence for his claim is not nearly as cut and dried as Trivers implies. For example, as I?ve argued in a previous column, the evidence strongly suggests that war is not a primordial instinct that we share with chimpanzees but a cultural innovation, a virulent meme that began spreading around the world about 10,000 years ago and still infects us.

Trivers is very hard on himself in Folly. He confesses to all manner of deceptions, intentional and inadvertent, that he has foisted on colleagues, wives, lovers, his children?and himself. But when he talks about science, he thinks that he is clear-eyed, and just knows how to tell truth from falsehood. Especially when he writes about evolutionary psychology and its critics, he?s all too confident in his ability to distinguish fools and knaves from sincere truth-seekers. This is a trait that he holds in common with other prominent proponents of evolutionary psychology, such as Leda Cosmides, John Tooby and David Buss. They love to accuse critics of ideological bias but fail to recognize it in themselves. I expected better of Trivers.

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'Major emergency operation' after S.Sudan violence (AP)

JUBA, Sudan ? Aid groups are mounting a "major emergency operation" in rural South Sudan after tribe-on-tribe violence sent tens of thousands of people fleeing and killed an unknown number of people, the U.N. said Saturday.

The U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, Lise Grande, said aid groups are responding to a call for help from South Sudan's central government after a column of 6,000 armed men from the Lou Nuer ethnic group marched into Pibor in Jonglei state to target the Murle community in late December and early January.

The U.N. says that three whole villages were burned to the ground. Aid groups have evacuated 140 people who were wounded.

Neither the central government or the U.N. has been able to give a death toll. The Juba-based central government says it is launching an investigation. A government official in Jonglei has said that thousands of people were killed but that number has not been corroborated.

Aid groups estimated that 60,000 people have been affected by the violence, the U.N. said. Tens of thousands fled their homes and urgent needs include high-nutritional food, clean water, health care and shelter, the U.N. said.

"This emergency operation is going to be one of the most complex and expensive in South Sudan since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed in 2005," Grande said, adding that most areas that need to be reached can only be reached by air. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement was the peace deal that ended decades of war between Sudan and South Sudan.

"Delivering assistance by air is hugely expensive compared to delivery by road. Unfortunately, in the areas affected in Jonglei, we don't have a choice," she said.

The Red Cross said earlier this month it was trying to reconnect 150 young children with their missing parents after tens of thousands of residents of South Sudan ran into the bush while fleeing the impending attack. Many of those parents are feared to be dead.

Columns of fighters from the Lou Nuer ethnic group marched into Pibor to target the Murle community, two tribes that have traded violent attacks over the last several years that have killed thousands. Much of the communities' animosity stems from cattle raiding attacks.

South Sudan fought a decades-long civil war with northern neighbor Sudan, a war that culminated in a 2005 peace deal that saw the partitioning of Sudan and the birth of South Sudan last July. The new border between the two countries remains tense, with sporadic cross-border attacks taking place. But the violence between the Lou Nuer and the Murle inside South Sudan is a reminder of the challenges the world's newest country faces inside its own borders.

Grande said that aid groups in South Sudan are overly stretched. Military operations in the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile ? in Sudan, South Sudan's northern neighbor ? have forced 75,000 to seek refuge in South Sudan. In addition, aid groups are helping some 360,000 South Sudanese who have returned from Sudan since late 2010.

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Straziuso contributed from Nairobi, Kenya.

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Iowa GOP voters see Romney as best Obama opponent (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won strong support Tuesday from Republicans seeking a candidate who can topple President Barack Obama in November's elections and from those most concerned about the weak economy, according to an entrance poll of GOP voters attending Iowa's presidential caucuses.

Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, countered with solid backing from tea party supporters, religious voters and those who ranked abortion as their paramount campaign issue.

Each candidate's reservoir of support helped explain a night in which Romney and Santorum were running neck and neck ? and ahead of their four other competitors ? in the year's first votes as Republicans started selecting their presidential nominee.

Running third was Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who scored highly with young voters, independents and people concerned about huge federal budget deficits.

Given a choice of four qualities they wanted in their party's nominee, about 3 in 10 said they wanted someone who could defeat Obama this fall. Forty-nine percent of that group said they were backing Romney, more than twice as many as cited any other candidate.

"I like Santorum's character and values. But I like Romney's experience and record," said Jeff Young, a salesman from Waterloo, Iowa, who said he was split between the two before Tuesday's caucus. "He's best-positioned in the most ways to compete with the other party."

Santorum, whose candidacy surged in recent days while emphasizing family and faith, was leading among those seeking a candidate with strong moral character, with 39 percent picking him. Santorum and Paul, a libertarian, were running about evenly among those who said they wanted a true conservative as their standard bearer.

Nearly 3 in 10 supporters of the conservative tea party movement were supporting Santorum, and about the same proportion of born-again or evangelical voters were also backing him. That gave Santorum a clear lead among both groups, important because each account for about 6 in 10 Iowa GOP caucus goers.

Santorum's recent burst of popularity was spotlighted by the entrance poll, which showed he was backed by a third of all voters who said they made their decisions in recent days ? more than any other contender.

Only about 1 in 7 voters said abortion was the issue that mattered most when they picked a candidate, but an overwhelming 57 percent of them were backing Santorum.

Asked the campaign's top issue, about 4 in 10 named the economy. Romney led among that group with support from about a third of them, underscoring the appeal of his background running an investment company before entering politics and his emphasis during the campaign on his business experience.

Romney entered the caucuses widely viewed as the favorite to ultimately win his party's nomination, and the opinions expressed by voters in Tuesday's entrance poll underscored his strengths and weaknesses in the GOP contests ahead.

Besides his perceived strength as an Obama opponent and among those worried about the economy, Romney was running ahead of his rivals among the 42 percent of Iowa caucus voters who were not born again or evangelical Christians. He was also doing well among those age 65 and up, people earning $100,000 annually or more and the 53 percent who said a business background was more important than government experience to be an effective president.

But only 56 percent of Romney's backers voiced strong support for him, a weaker show of enthusiasm than his other chief rivals. He was also running poorly among those considering themselves very conservative, the most ardent tea party backers and born-again and evangelical voters ? a crucial portion of GOP voters in South Carolina and some other states in upcoming nominating contests.

Paul had the backing of 48 percent of voters under age 30 and nearly as many independents, giving him large leads in both categories. That could be good news for Paul in New Hampshire, where independents represented almost 4 in 10 voters in that state's 2008 GOP presidential primary. Nearly a quarter of Iowa's GOP voters Tuesday were independents, up from 2008, so their proportion in New Hampshire might grow this year as well.

About a third of GOP caucus goers said they were most concerned about budget deficits, and 3 in 10 of them picked Paul, more than any of his rivals.

Romney, Santorum, Paul and Texas Gov. Rick Perry were running roughly evenly among one-fourth of voters who said campaign advertising played an important role in choosing a candidate ? a testament to the millions in TV advertising that blanketed Iowa in the weeks leading up to Tuesday's caucuses.

The survey was conducted for AP and the television networks by Edison Research as voters arrived at 40 randomly selected caucus sites in Iowa. The survey involved interviews with 1,737 caucus-goers and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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AP Deputy Polling Director Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.

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The Fink?s Royal Rumble Memories: 1988-1992

The Royal Rumble has been one of WWE?s most unusual and unpredictable events. From what I would call the ?best seat in the house,? I?ve witnessed - and on many occasions introduced - a number of defining occurrences through the years. Therefore, as we celebrate the 25th edition of this long running WWE staple on Jan. 29, WWE.com revisits some of the magical moments that took place over the past 24 Royal Rumbles - some from the Royal Rumble Matches themselves, others?from clashes that took place in?the titularly named pay-per-view?event. Let's kick off?our journey with the first five, with more to follow next Wednesday.

HACKSAW HANGS IN
1/24/88 - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
The inaugural Royal Rumble was a made-for-TV event for the USA Network, highlighted by the Royal Rumble Match itself. Twenty Superstars entered the over-the-top-rope contest based on entry numbers drawn before the match began. The honor of victory that evening went to Hacksaw Jim Duggan, who stood tall after all was said and done.

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HOGAN'S SAVAGE MISTAKE
1/15/89 - Houston, Tex.
In its pay-per-view debut, one major element of the Royal Rumble Match saw the beginning of the dissolution of Hulk Hogan and ?Macho Man? Randy Savage, a.k.a. the Mega Powers. Tempers were short as a result of both Superstars? participation, but the intervention of Miss Elizabeth prevented an ugly situation from getting uglier that evening.

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GARVIN HAMMERS VALENTINE
1/21/90 - Orlando, Fla.
There was no love lost between Rugged Ronnie Garvin and Greg ?The Hammer? Valentine. These two had their differences throughout 1989, and the culmination of their bitter rivalry took center stage at the 1990 Royal Rumble, in a Submission Match.

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SGT. SLAUGHTER?FELLS?WARRIOR
1/19/91 - Miami, Fla.
While conflict escalated between the U.S. and Iraq, Sgt. Slaughter, then an Iraqi sympathizer, challenged the Ultimate Warrior for the WWE Championship. Little did the Warrior know that anarchy would reign supreme this night, as ?Macho King? Randy Savage and Sensational Queen Sherri would play an instrumental part in costing him the coveted title.

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TURNABOUT IS FLAIR?PLAY
1/19/92 - Albany, N.Y.
All eyes were focused on the Royal Rumble Match, where for the first (and only) time, the WWE Championship was the prize that awaited the winner. After months of claiming to be ?the real World Champion,? entrant No. 3, Nature Boy Ric Flair, fought tooth and nail for nearly one hour to outlast 29 other competitors and become the new WWE Champion.

Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/2011/finkel-royal-rumble-1-5

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Griffin, Baylor win record-breaking Alamo Bowl (AP)

SAN ANTONIO ? A thrilling, back-and-forth, record-shattering Alamo Bowl had barely ended when Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III already started hearing the chants.

"One more year! One more year!"

One more year? There's still the craziness of what happened Thursday night to get through first.

Griffin wasn't dazzling in possibly his last college game ? and didn't need to be ? yet No. 15 Baylor still pulled out an incredible Alamo Bowl victory in the highest-scoring regulation bowl game in history, beating Washington 67-56 in the wildest shootout of this bowl season or any other in memory.

If this was RG3's final showcase before jumping to the NFL, it was a gripping goodbye to watch. One of the nation's most electrifying players was upstaged by an even more exciting nail-biter that shattered the previous record for points in regulation set in the 2001 GMAC Bowl.

"We went out in style!" Griffin shouted to his teammates. He paraded the Alamo Bowl trophy around the field before taking it to the front row of the stands and his mother, who's already been looking at her son's NFL draft prospects.

Griffin said he was still catching his breath after this one.

"I want Baylor nation to enjoy this," Griffin said. "It's not about me. I've got about two weeks. I'll enjoy this the next day, and then the next day, and then I'll make it."

The previous bowl record for a regulation game was 102 total points set in the 2001 GMAC Bowl between Marshall and East Carolina. That game went to double overtime and ended with a combined 125 points ? which still stands as the overall bowl record.

Baylor, which won its first bowl game since 1992, and Washington (7-6) also set a bowl record for total offense in a game with 1,397 yards.

Griffin had an unremarkable night, throwing just one touchdown pass and running for another. But Terrance Ganaway starred ably in his place, rushing for 200 yards and five touchdowns. His last was a 43-yard run with 2:28 left to seal Baylor's first 10-win season since 1980.

Washington quarterback Keith Price outplayed his Heisman counterpart, going 23 for 27 with 438 yards and four touchdowns. He also ran for another three scores.

"I think we'll have a hard time this bowl season to see a quarterback play as well as he did," Washington coach Steve Sarkisian.

Griffin was 24 of 33 for 295 yards ? and his only touchdown throw came on the game's opening drive.

Blown out in four other games against ranked opponents this season, the Huskies finally made one interesting. Not that it started that way after Baylor ran up 245 yards of offense alone in the first quarter ? awful even by the standards of Washington's defense, which is among the nation's worst.

Then the most award-winning QB in the country suddenly stopped looking like even the best one in the Alamodome.

Price, a sophomore who threw a school-record 29 touchdowns in his first year as the starter, began cutting into a 21-7 deficit with a 12-yard scoring strike to James Johnson. Seven minutes later he tied the game when Devin Aguilar somersaulted over the goal line after catching a 1-yard lob.

The overwhelming crowd of Baylor fans ? decked in green-and-gold Heisman shirts and armed with signs such as "Superman wears RG3 socks" ? stood in stunned silenced. That gave way to disbelieving gasps on the next series, when the typically sure-handed Griffin fumbled after getting popped by Andrew Hudson.

After that, it was practically a free-for-all of big plays.

A 56-yard touchdown dash by Chris Polk. An 80-yard touchdown catch by Washington's Jermaine Kearse two plays into the second half. An 89-yard scoring rumble by Baylor's Terrance Ganaway. Kearse again, catching and darting for 60 yards before getting dragged down, setting up Price's fourth touchdown toss the next play.

Back and forth, back and forth. One after another. In all, five plays covered 50 or more yards, three of them for scores.

"That was crazy," Baylor coach Art Briles said.

For an Alamo Bowl short on drama and light on matchups in recent years, it was a thrilling scoring spree that overshadowed the mere novelty of featuring the Heisman winner. And that in itself was a rarity for a bowl of this stature: Not since Ty Detmer took BYU to the Holiday Bowl in 1990 had a Heisman winner played in a bowl before New Year's Day.

Plenty came to see this one.

Anticipating a surge of Heisman gawkers, Alamo Bowl officials added 800 temporary seats and opened up others with obstructed views that required ticket-buyers to sign a form acknowledging the poor sightlines. Those seats sold, anyway, and the announced attendance of 65,256 was the fifth-largest in the bowl's history.

Others had better seats.

That includes Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland, who kicked for Baylor in the late 1980s but was here on business scouting Griffin in case the fourth-year junior enters the draft. Griffin's parents, two sisters and fiancee watched the nail-biter with front-row seats.

Griffin acknowledged this week his parents are looking at his draft prospects but denies having any substantial talks with them.

Win or lose, it was an impressive finale for Washington after stumbling into the postseason losing four of its last six. Particularly against a ranked team after then-Top 25 opponents Nebraska, Stanford, Oregon and USC all crushed the Huskies by an average of 24 points.

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