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Dixon gets his shot to lead Ducks

By Ted Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Everything was coming together for Oregon quarterback Kellen Clemens. Then his left fibula snapped in two just above his ankle. Season over. Now those whispers that were rising toward national audibility, rasping that perhaps there was yet another Heisman Trophy candidate on the West Coast, are silent. A guy falls on his leg -- snap -- and a record-setting career ends instantly, just when Oregon was rerouting its season back toward the nation's elite. Doggone funny how stuff happens, ...

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