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...with another boy in the class who liked Joe Frazier better. After breaking them up, the teacher told Bowe he was pretty good with his hands and should consider boxing himself. Within four years, he had won his first Golden Gloves title. He would go on to win that amateur title three more times...
...evidence to oppose Hoy. "Autobiograhical writing demeans our profession," Marius wrote recently in an article published in the book Redrawing the Boundaries. "While our colleagues in history, literature and the other liberal arts are asking for writing about the world out there, we often look like a crowd of amateur therapists delivering dime-store psychology to adolescents...
...June, Morgan was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 18th round of baseball's amateur draft. He played with Toronto's rookie league team in Medicine Hat, Alberta (Canada) over the summer and is currently with the Blue Jays' instructional league team in Dunedin, Florida, outside of Clearwater...
...attends the opening of plays. A poster screams out in a bold font, "Random vaguely sexually suggestive quote," followed in small print by the date and time of the play, as if some unintentional Victorian double-entendre is enough to send sex-starved Harvard students running to see whatever amateur production is listed. Please! We might not have cable TV, but if we want to see more-than-vague suggestion we can always just flip on NYPD Blue...
Although Sacrison describes himself as an amateur paleontologist who has never traveled outside his own time zone, he is too modest. In a sense, he has spent more time in the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, than many professionals. Since he found his first dinosaur bone, a triceratops vertebra, at age 8, he has scoured the landscape looking for more artifacts of the distant past. Counting his latest discovery, he has found two of the world's 14 known skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex. Sacrison helped excavate the first last year, only a quarter-mile from his latest find...