"EUGENE -- Not quite four months have passed since Pharaoh Brown was cut out of his uniform and pads on a hospital bed by doctors who were only hours from taking his lower right leg, too. And still, the Oregon Ducks tight end stares at the area below his right knee with a disbelieving gaze, as if it shouldn't be there, as if it doesn't belong to him. But it is and it does. "God works magic," Brown said last week. Not quite four weeks after his third and final surgery, progress comes in the form of stiff, short steps. They belie how far he's come during an exhaustive winter. After facing the stunning possibility of amputation in a Salt Lake City hospital, he now ambles without crutches. He rides a stationary bike and jogs -- gingerly -- on an underwater treadmill. That he's doing any of these things at all could be cause for celebration considering that he left the Rice-Eccles Stadium field on Nov. 8 in the back of an ambulance and, unbeknownst to him, bleeding internally. That his complex recovery is somewhere in the vicinity of one month ahead of schedule, on top of it all, has left Brown far from the only person around Oregon's athletics complex with an incredulous expression." http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/ind...g_pharaoh_brown_once.html#incart_river_mobile
