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Kent overcomes job, personal issues to triumph

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Saturday, March 10, 2007

LOS ANGELES -- Sit behind Oregon coach Ernie Kent and watch him work a game. He'll grimace at a bad shot or what he perceives as a poor call, slap his hands, wave his arms, and he doesn't hesitate to pound his chest after a big 3-pointer. He's doing all this with a torn left rotator cuff. "He has a high threshold for pain," said new Oregon athletic director Pat Kilkenny, sitting one row behind the Oregon bench in the stands Saturday as the Ducks claimed the Pac-10 title with as dominating a pe ...

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