Winners

Parkview Field: Fort Wayne TinCaps’ home field ranks No. 1 for Minor League Baseball venues and No. 13 out of all professional sports venues according to a Best of 2011 review by Stadium Journey.

Jeff Flake: The Republican congressman from Arizona sat next to Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during President Obama’s State of the Union address and helped Giffords, still recovering from a gunshot to the head, stand every time she wanted to applaud a line from the speech. Flake also held Gifford’s hand as her resignation letter was read to Congress on Wednesday.

Newt Gingrich: The former GOP House speaker wins a decisive victory in the South Carolina primary while his chief rival for the presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, struggles to defend his great wealth.

Navy SEALs: The same squad that killed Osama bin Laden successfully pulls off a daring rescue of an American and a Dane being held hostage in Somalia.

Apple: Big sales of iPhones equal big quarterly profit, pushing up the stock price and the NASDAQ index while making Apple the largest company in the country. And get this – the tech giant is sitting on a cash balance just shy of $100 billion.

Tossups

Joe Namath: Broadway Joe – who played a big role in turning the Super Bowl from a championship sports game into a must-watch spectacle – is the subject of a new HBO documentary. While the highlights are many, the film also includes ESPN’s Suzy Kolber, who for the first time talks about her 2003 interview during which the former New York Jets quarterback drunkenly made a pass, and not with a football.

Interest rates: The Federal Reserve says to expect rates to remain at historic lows through 2014 – great news for borrowers and developers, not so good for savings accounts and certificates of deposit.

President Obama: His inspiring State of the Union address laid out common-sense reasoning to support his objectives – and set a record for least-watched State of the Union speech, with just 24 percent of households tuning in.

Losers

Democrats: The right-to-work bill is all but a done deal, a major defeat for Democrats and for labor unions.

Taxpayers: Of the $413 billion the federal government loaned big businesses as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, $133 billion has yet to be repaid, the TARP inspector general reports.

Milestones

Taco Bell: The fast food giant joins competitors in offering a breakfast menu, beginning in the western U.S. but likely coming to the rest of the nation soon.