For the past few years, she has become a golf enthusiast, combining her passion for the sport with her need to help children with cancer by creating the Schooner Fall Classic, a women’s collegiate golf tournament with a purpose. “One of Tricia’s goals is to help support women’s golf,” said Juliet Nees-Bright, executive director of […]
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Ninja III: The Domination
I sure did. Never have I seen a ninja movie as entertaining as Cannon Films’ 1984 epic. And I’ve literally had to wait 29 years to see it. I recall the 13-year-old more being intrigued by the black-and-white ads for it in the daily newspaper; remarkably, this Shout! Factory Blu-ray/DVD combo marks its first North […]
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Golfing for good
Toby Keith will celebrate the 10th annual Toby Keith & Friends Golf Classic tournament this weekend. Proceeds go toward construction of OK Kid’s Korral, a cost-free home for pediatric cancer patients and their families. In 2003, Scott Webb, one of Keith’s original band members, lost his 2-year-old daughter to cancer. Keith, after seeing the toll […]
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Fore a good cause
Bring your golf clubs out for good — a good cause, that is. On Thursday, the Oklahoma Association for Justice will partner with The Education and Employment Ministry (TEEM) to host the second annual charity golf tournament, Tee Off for TEEM. TEEM is a nonprofit that works to reduce poverty, homelessness and unemployment in Oklahoma. […]
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Fore your eyes only
When the summer sun gets too hot to hit the links, enjoy the leisure sport via your eyeballs at The Art of Golf, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, opening Thursday. Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the National Galleries of Scotland, it is the first exhibition devoted to […]
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Chain gang
Mark Hancock The National Golf Foundation reported 157 course closures across the country in 2011, which outpaced the number of course openings for the fifth consecutive year. Meanwhile, disc golf — second cousin to the venerable sport of kings — is gaining fans. Instead of using clubs, disc golfers negotiate the course while throwing a […]