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...older sisters grew up in Seattle in a family that encouraged creativity. A typical party at the Morris home was a Bastille Day celebration in which guests were invited to come dressed as their favorite subject from the French Revolution. Morris' father William, a high school English teacher and amateur musician, taught his son to read music when he was just four. His mother Maxine, a dance aficionado with a special fondness for flamenco, took him to see the Jose Greco company when he was eight. It was love at first jete. A local dance teacher gave him a scholarship...
Soon, Tom is drawn into the amateur boxing world by a sleazy Fagintype played by Robert Loggia and a money-grubbing ex-fighter turned promoter (Brian Dennehy). Men like Tom are treated as cannon-fodders to fuel their lucrative gambling empire...
...Crimson's brother-sister tandem, Jeremy and Jordanna Fraiberg, both won their respective championships Sunday and are now the first-ranked amateur squash players in the country...
Colonial Williamsburg is the amateur history buff's paradise...
Simmons won the 500 meter run at the Heps last year, before going on to take 800 meter title at the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (1C4A) championships, which follow the winter track season...