Duck-ing for cover

One would think Colleen Bellotti, wife of Oregon head football coach Mike Bellotti, would have been totally preoccupied with the action on the field as the No. 5 Ducks and No. 9 USC Trojans were starting the fourth quarter of Saturday's hotly contested Pac-10 game with national championship implications, ultimately won by Oregon 24-17.

Instead, Mrs. Bellotti, accompanied by "a group of her friends and family" including several children and a nanny holding an infant, was in the press box calling out The Oregonian columnist John Canzano in a scene described by the newspaper as "sad and surreal."

Read Canzano's first-person account.