Article: FORMER UO CHEERLEADER'S LIFE TAKES 'AMAZING' TURN.(Television)(With his wife, Uchenna Agu will try to win $1 million on the CBS hit reality-TV show)

Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

If you're a Duck or Beaver fan and lived in these parts back in 1987, you probably remember him best as the guy who took a howitzer-of-a-gum-wad-shot to the face from Oregon State's Gary Payton during a Civil War basketball game in Corvallis.

Well, Uchenna Agu, a former University of Oregon cheerleader and one of the best horizontal jumpers in the school's illustrious track-and-field history, is back in the news. This time, it has nothing to do with track and field or a four-stick wad of Doublemint.

Agu and his wife, Joyce, will make their debuts March 1 on the hit CBS reality-TV program "The Amazing Race," ...

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