Daniel David Sikes, Jr. (December 7, 1929 – December 20, 1987) was an American professional golfer.

Early years

College career

Professional career

Sikes was instrumental in helping organize the Senior PGA Tour. He won three times in this venue—the first of which came at the rain-shortened Hilton Head Seniors International in 1982 which Sikes and Miller Barber were leading when play was stopped.

Sikes died in Jacksonville at the age of 58. He was posthumously inducted into the Jacksonville Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.

Professional wins (9)

PGA Tour wins (6)

Senior PGA Tour wins (3)

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Christened 'Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter' in 2002 (based in Seattle, WA.), singer-songwriter Jesse Sykes and guitarist Phil Wandscher (who co-founded Whiskeytown along side Ryan Adams), began what has become their long lived musical partnership.

Though oft-saddled with the “alt-country” tag, of late Sykes and Co. are moving into some heavier, darker territories. In fact “The Sinking Belle”, Sykes’ contribution to the Sunn O))) / Boris collaboration "Altar", has already become an underground classic among followers of the unlikely art-metal movement centered around the Southern Lord label. (Jesse sang and wrote the lyrics and melody of 'The Sinking Belle'). The band has toured with Earth, a group commonly acknowledged as one of the major progenitors of Drone Doom (and another member of the Southern Lord roster) and psych-rock maestros Black Mountain.

Sykes and her bandmates are a group of musicians whose music resonates, against all standards of modern musical genrefication, in the parallel worlds of the avant-garde and the timeless. Sykes’ voice and the sometimes-mystical leanings of her songs (the former described perfectly by Magnet as “sounding less like a performer and more like a sage”), and the band’s incomparable feel all lead to what the New York Times has described as “spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow.” Perhaps it’s this thematic darkness that has lately drawn attention to their music from a decidedly heavier crowd than in the past.

Fun facts: Their music has appeared in the films '12 and Holding' (2005), 'First Snow' (2006) and 'Eldorado' (2009); As well as in an episode of True Blood (season 1) (2008), on HBO.

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Dr Bill Sykes (born 3 October 1948) became the Nationals Member for Benalla in November 2002 after a career as a veterinarian and businessman.

Sykes was also a VFL footballer, playing 48 games of football for Fitzroy, and later coaching Shepparton, Benalla and Benalla & District Junior Football teams. As well as being a member of parliament, Sykes and his wife Sally also run a beef cattle and sheep property just out of Benalla.

Together, the Sykes have been involved in a wide range of community activities including school councils, youth groups, sporting clubs, Landcare, fire brigade and the Victorian Farmers Federation. Sykes was also instrumental in the establishment of the Benalla Trust Foundation, a trust to assist local people in times of crisis, and the Benalla Young Sportspersons Trust, a trust that assists promising young athletes to compete in interstate and overseas competitions.

Benalla had been held by the Nationals since 1943 but was lost in a by-election in 2000 after the retirement of Pat McNamara. The Labor Party was re-elected in a landslide in the 2002 election, yet Sykes won Benalla back with only 26% of the primary vote to give a 52% two party preferred vote over the incumbent, Denise Allen.

In the 2006 election, Sykes increased his primary vote to 42% and his two party preferred vote to 68%.

Bill Sykes is currently the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture & Water. He is also a member of the Victorian Parliament's Public Accounts & Estimates Committee.

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Daniel Hugh Kelly (born August 10, 1952) is an American stage, film and television actor. He may be best known for his role on the 1980s ABC TV series ''Hardcastle and McCormick'' from 1983-1986 (as ex-con Mark "Skid" McCormick) for which he also wrote and directed. Brian Keith was his costar.

Life and career

A versatile actor, Kelly starred on Broadway as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner's Maggie in ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', and opposite Madeline Kahn's Billie in ''Born Yesterday'' by Garson Kanin. He has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, primarily at The Public Theatre and The Second Stage. A product of regional repertory theater, Kelly has been a company member of the Williamstown Theater Festival (MA), The Folger Theater (DC), Arena Stage (DC), and the Actors Theatre of Louisville among others. He toured with the National Players, the nation's oldest classical touring company. In 2003, he appeared at the Mark Taper Theatre Forum (LA), originating the role of Richard in ''Living Out'' by Lisa Loomer.

Kelly's film roles include the 1983 horror film ''Cujo'', ''The Good Son'', ''In Crowd'', ''Chill Factor'', ''Nowhere to Hide'', ''Bad Company'', ''Someone to Watch Over Me'', ''The Guardian'', and ''Star Trek: Insurrection'' as Sojef, leader of an alien race called the Ba'ku.

In addition to ''Hardcastle and McCormick'', Kelly has been a series regular in such varied television productions as the 1987-1988 ABC sitcom ''I Married Dora'' playing architect Peter Farrell, the 1982-1983 NBC series ''Chicago Story'' as Det. Frank Wajorski, the 1990s ''ABC'' series ''Second Noah'' as Noah Beckett, the 2001-02 PAX series ''Ponderosa'' as Ben Cartwright, and in NBC's ''Walt Disney Presents The 100 Lives of Blackjack Savage'' which he also co-produced.

Kelly has made many notable appearances in miniseries and television movies including TNT's ''Passing Glory'', HBO's ''The Tuskegee Airmen'', ''Citizen Cohn'' and ''From the Earth to the Moon'' as Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon; as JFK in NBC's ''Jackie, Joan and Ethel; Women of Camelot'' and ''The Nutcracker'' among others. He has also guest starred on many episodic TV shows including several appearances on ''Law & Order'', its spin-off ''SVU'' and ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'', as well as ''Memphis Beat'', ''The West Wing'', ''NCIS: Los Angeles'', ''Supernatural'', ''Boston Legal'', ''Las Vegas'' and ''Walker, Texas Ranger''.

Kelly starred on daytime TV in ''Ryan's Hope'' as Senator Frank Ryan from 1978–1981, ''All My Children'' as Travis Montgomery from 1993–1994, and ''As the World Turns'' in a recurring role as Col. Winston Mayer for which he was nominated for a Spirit Award by TV Guide Canada.

Kelly is an intensely private actor who has rarely given interviews during his career, preferring his farm in upstate New York to a celebrity lifestyle. He has twin daughters and a son.

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Jill Whelan (born September 29, 1966) is an American actress.

Whelan was born in Oakland, California. After attending summer acting camp at age 7, Whelan landed a series of commercials. At age 11, she was cast in the short-lived TV series ''Friends'' (a little-known 1979 series). Later that year, Whelan played the role of Lisa Davis, the sick girl, in ''Airplane!'' She is probably best known for her role in the hit television series ''The Love Boat.'' In the series she played Vicki Stubing, the daughter of Capt. Stubing (played by Gavin MacLeod). After the show was canceled in 1986, she worked on an album titled ''Our Time''.

During the early 1980s, Whelan served as a national spokesperson for First Lady Nancy Reagan's Just Say No anti-drug campaign.

Whelan graduated from the The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California and continued on to college in England at Guildford College.

After returning to the United States, Whelan moved to New York City and acted in several Off-Broadway productions before leaving the stage to work as an event producer at Madison Square Garden. It was here that she met her second husband whom she would marry over a decade later.

Shortly after leaving MSG, Whelan met her first husband Brad St. John and was married, becoming pregnant soon thereafter. Moving back to her native California in preparation for the birth of her first son Harrison, Whelan soon accepted another acting role on the long-running TV soap opera ''The Young and the Restless.'' She then left acting and started working as an investigative producer at LA's KCOP television station where she remained for 4 years before moving back to the east coast to get married again.

She married Michael Chaykowsky in April 2004 aboard the cruise ship ''Caribbean Princess.'' It was her second marriage. Her second son, Grant, was born on July 1, 2006.

She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania and hosts a Sunday afternoon radio show on WPHT 1210AM in Philadelphia. The show airs Sunday from 3 pm-4 pm EST. Additionally, Jill teaches acting to children and teens.

On Friday September 10, 2008 Whelan appeared with several other castmembers from the movie ''Airplane!'' in a reunion segment on NBC's the Today Show.

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