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Washington State’s Nico Grasu (18) kicks the game-winning field goal in double overtime last season as WSU’s Reid Forrest (8) holds and Washington’s Quinton Richardson (28) attempts the block it. The kick gave the Cougars a 16-13 win over the Huskies in double overtime. Grasu is injured and won’t play in this year’s Apple Cup.
Folk had to sit out the 2008 Apple Cup because of injury
SEATTLE One thing we know about the 2009 Apple Cup is that it wont have a repeat hero.
Nico Grasu, the current Washington State junior who kicked the game-winning field goal in 2008, is back in his hometown of Encino, Calif., this week, celebrating the holidays and nursing a quadriceps injury that has kept him off the field the past four weeks.
If Saturdays game comes down to another field goal, Grasu will have to watch on television.
Erik Folk certainly knows what that feels like.
The University of Washington sophomore was sitting at home last... [
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