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Byline: Ron Bellamy The Register-Guard
The severe headaches that plagued Neal Zoumboukos over the past five years - headaches so severe they made him sick to his stomach - have somehow gone away. Not a one, since February. And in the Casanova Center, folks outside the football offices have told him, more than once, that he seems to smile more now.
On some days, when his wife, Yvonne, cares for their granddaughter, Zoumboukos goes home for lunch. And now, good grief, he regularly gets home in time for dinners, and a walk through the neighborhood beforehand.
He didn't miss football during spring football, though he felt for his old friends on the Oregon coaching staff, working late nights to learn new offensive terminology. He didn't miss football during spring recruiting.
Zoumboukos admits that it's "gotten to me a little bit" in recent weeks, as the Ducks hit the fundraising circuit and football coach Mike Bellotti has talked to boosters about the coming season; Zoumboukos has realized, with some finality, that he won't be a part of it anymore.
He has already scheduled a week of vacation before the season-opener against Houston...
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