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By From Sun staff and news services | October 7, 2009
Et cetera Rice loses in second round of U.S. Mid-Amateur, 5 and 4 Pat Carter, a 12-time West Virginia amateur champion from Huntington, defeated Andrew Rice of Baltimore, 5 and 4, in the second round of the U.S. Mid-Amateur championship at Kiawah Island, S.C. Rice had rallied to win his first-round match, 1-up, over Tyler Shelton of Fairway, Kan. More golf:: Lisa Schlesinger of Laytonsville won and lost in the second and third rounds, respectively, in...
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By Julie Bykowicz | January 14, 2008
Francis Meckel was about to zoom into Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena on his bright-blue minibike. Straddling his bike with his arms folded and his goggles flipped down, the 11-year-old was the picture of cool. Not so for the woman standing beside him - his mother. "As a parent, my knees are knocking, and my stomach is turning," said Beth Meckel of Harford County. Her 14-year-old son also raced yesterday, doubling her anxiety. With ambulances standing by and parents alternately averting their eyes and pumping their fists into the air, Toyota Arenacross' "amateur day" was under way. The popular indoor motocross series was in Baltimore all weekend, drawing crowds of 6,000 Friday night and 9,000 Saturday night, according to promoters.
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December 9, 2007
ARNOLD HARDY, 85 Award-winning photographer Arnold Hardy, an amateur photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his gripping 1946 photo of a woman falling from a burning hotel, died Wednesday at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta of complications from hip surgery, according to A.S. Turner & Sons funeral home. He died just two days before the 61st anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1946, fire at Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel - a disaster that killed 119 people, more than any other hotel fire in U.S. history.
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By Stefen Lovelace | October 31, 2007
It's 45 minutes before the fight, and Nick Kisner is getting his hands taped. Kisner and fellow boxer Mike Paschal are trading tips before Kisner's bout at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie. The 16-year-old super heavyweight is relaxed but focused. When he matter-of-factly says things such as "I can be so quick that it's hard to hit me. Hands and feet-wise, it's just unreal," it's difficult to not believe him. When it's time to fight, Kisner moves slowly toward the ring apron with his father, Danny, Paschal and trainer Vince Veazey.
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By James Marcus | June 24, 2007
The Cult of the Amateur By Andrew Keen Currency / 240 pages / $22.95 Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away - which is to say, during the loony apex of the 1990s Internet boom - Andrew Keen was an entrepreneur. An Englishman by birth, he relocated to Silicon Valley and in 1996 founded Audiocafe.com, one of the earliest Web sites devoted to digital music. Like most such ventures, his crashed and burned before it could earn a dime. At this point, many a man might have retreated from the Web in a permanent sulk.
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By Rashod D. Ollison | May 10, 2007
The lilting, jazz-kissed melody, dedicated to the survivors of the massacre at Virginia Tech, has been downloaded more than 380,000 times in the past three weeks - a frequency typically generated by a Top 10 hit single. The song was not written by a polished performer but by a British amateur artist named Kojo Best. He wrote the tune, then played it on an electric piano and posted his performance on YouTube. Even as professional artists such as platinum-selling Texas rapper Lil' Flip and R&B-pop star R. Kelly release their versions of songs dedicated to the survivors of the Virginia Tech killings, homemade musical tributes such as Best's have been mushrooming in the online video universe.
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By Lem Satterfield | April 28, 2007
Two amateur boxers with local ties will each take big steps in their careers this weekend, with one, Hasim Rahman Jr., 15, making his first move and the other, James Berry, 19, trying to continue on his way toward a berth in the 2008 Olympics. Hasim Jr., 6 feet 2, 200 pounds, whose football prowess once caught the eye of coaches at Gilman, is just half an inch shorter than his father, former two-time world heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman. Using fists nearly as massive as his dad's, the younger Rahman in his first fight will take on an opponent to be determined during an amateur event tonight at the Pikesville Armory.
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By KENT BAKER | June 10, 2006
Led by top-seeded Mike Mulieri, a parade of collegians marched into the quarterfinal round of the Maryland State Amateur men's tournament yesterday at the Elkridge Club. All eight remaining players are either enrolled in college or, in the case of Jeff Castle, have recently graduated. Castle, who meets Loyola student Mulieri this morning in an intriguing matchup, finished at Towson University earlier this spring. Play was again suspended yesterday because of thunderstorms and lightning - this time twice - and was prolonged into the early evening, partially due to a 24-hole match that Maryland student Zachary Lese wrapped up by escaping a hazard and parring the difficult No. 6 hole.
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By STEVE ELLING | May 25, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Two days after the most positive development in his career in years, Matt Kuchar was driving through Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday morning, tooling along to his next tournament while simultaneously recapping the highlights of his most recent start. He was experiencing, metaphorically and realistically, the highways and byways of the unpredictable pro game. "I'm cruising along I-20," he said of his whereabouts. Anybody with 20-20 vision when the Orlando native leaped onto the national scene as a college sophomore would be surprised to learn of the not-so-exotic tournament locales he's been frequenting of late, including Athens, Ga., Fort Smith, Ark., and Richmond, Va. Obviously, big-league stops like Riviera, Augusta and Colonial, they are not. But leave it to the relentlessly upbeat Kuchar, whose panache and demeanor made him the world's most famous amateur in 1997-1998, to make the best of his situation.
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By DON MARKUS | March 30, 2006
Long before Michelle Wie became the most talked-about player in women's golf, another teen phenom in Hawaii with Korean roots was considered a future LPGA megastar. Grace Park won 55 titles during her career as a junior and amateur -- including the 1998 U.S. Women's Amateur over Jenny Chuasiriporn of Timonium -- before turning pro after two years at Arizona State. Though she won a tournament in each of her first four years on the LPGA Tour, Park seemed to be in a perpetual state of antipathy.