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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Bill Bigelow / The Bulletin
September 28, 2009
EUGENE —
Nate Costa stood a few yards behind the center and sized up the Cal defense as it scrambled to match up against Oregon’s peculiar “swinging-gate” alignment. Major knee injuries had sidelined Costa, a junior Duck quarterback, in each of the previous two years, and he had not thrown a....