It's good to win the Rotary Cup, but for us, we just really needed a win period.

Without question I think he is, no knock against Julian Vaughn, but I think Warren Edney is the district player of the year. They threw it up to him and I remember thinking to myself, 'There's no way he's going to get that' and he went up and did this reverse tomahawk [dunk], and after that we just had nothing. We just folded.

I guess we were both asked, because we were from right here in town. It's great for us. It's getting us ready for next year. Plus, as you can tell, our kids are pretty fond of ( Killer Bees mascot Sir Sting-A-Lot). They like him a lot.

The biggest surprise to us this year was the late-season surge in the week before Christmas. This occurred at a time when we usually see a pronounced drop-off in purchases. Instead, we saw a 57 percent growth surge driven by people buying online and picking up in stores as well as the commitment by online merchants to deliver in time.

I think we really used each other to set the pace and worked off each other. It really benefits us that all of our runners run close to each other.

I think it would be a good thing for us to play them again.