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Allen showed off his sprinter's speed, much needed by UCLA, in opening defeat

LOS ANGELES_There was pandemonium inside the Rose Bowl as UCLA's Kazmeir Allen darted toward the end zone, and then there was what happened in Section 5-L, Row 57, Seats 5-7.

Brad Allen watched his son accelerate like a drag racer through a pack of bumper cars and felt his heart race as goose bumps spread over his arms.

Corde Allen clambered onto his seat for a celebratory dance, the 5-year-old yelling, "Kazzie! That's my brother!"

Paulette Allen wept at the sight of her grandson becoming not only the first member of her immediate family to go to college but graduate to

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