Mark AsperLOS ANGELES, Calif. _ Oregon tackle Mark Asper performed the Heimlich Maneuver on a choking man Wednesday at the Lawry's Beef Bowl.
Lawry's Beef Bowl is a Rose Bowl tradition in which the competing teams try to out-eat each other at Lawry's the Prime Rib in Beverly Hills.
It was Oregon's turn Wednesday. According to eye-witnesses, a man in the restaurant began choking. The 6-foot-7, 325-pound Asper sprang into action. He performed the maneuver, and a piece of beef flew out of the man's mouth.
The choking man was identified as Paul Diamond, father of a UO student.
Asper told those on the scene that he had learned the Heimlich in Boy Scouts.
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