At the Rose Bowl, Oregon’s Tez Johnson is a star and an ambassador

LOS ANGELES A media day before a major college football game can double as a bulldozer shoveling cliches that threaten to demolish ones soul even while those cliches remain forgivable for competitive purposes.

It involves drifting around a hotel ballroom from player to player at dais to dais or at round table to round table, listening.

Its an odd turn of anthropology, all told.

Still, its not quite atypical to wander across a footballer so listenable that you cant seem to drift anywhere else for the rest of the hour-long session, maybe someone loaded with charisma and gratitude that flow from eyes uncommonly alive..

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