Jake Curtis
Her image is tattooed onto Dennis Dixon's arm. Her photograph is encased in a medallion that hangs around Dixon's neck. Her shyness is Dixon's shyness. To see Dennis Dixon is to see Jueretta Dixon. They were as close as a mother and son could be, and they say the smile Dixon wears constantly is his mother's smile. "Whatever she said, he laughed at, and whatever he said, she laughed at," said Northwestern wide receiver Sam Cheatham, Dixon's teammate at San Leandro High School.
She died Feb. 3, 2004, after a three-year battle with breast cancer, having seen nearly every baseball, football and basketball game her son played. She was 46, and Dixon was a freshman at Oregon. "It took a long time to get over it," Dixon said this week. Soon after her death, he added the tattoo and the medallion "so that she's always with me," Dixon said.
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I've been following Dixon since he graduated (as I do most East Bay stars) and it's awesome to see him having such a good year in Eugene. I don't wish him well Saturday, but in his career, of course I do. Good article.
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