BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Former University of Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys football coach Barry Switzer is slated to attend North Dakota’s oil expo and conference in Bismarck.
North Dakota Petroleum Council President Ron Ness says Switzer will attend the event Thursday as a guest of billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, the chairman of Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc.
Hamm has invited sports personalities to the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference and Expo before. In 2012, Tony La Russa, the former St. Louis Cardinals manager who guided the team to the World Series title the year before, attended the event in Bismarck.
This year’s event also will feature former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz as a key note speaker. The event closes Thursday with an address by Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
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