Have you ever wanted to see a basketball court turn into a rodeo stage? Well, now you can.
National Finals Rodeo
Long before Clay O’Brien Cooper won seven team roping heeler world titles — and narrowly missed winning a record-tying eighth last year at age 51 — the Gardnerville resident enjoyed a colorful career as a child actor.
Bobby Mote is seeking a fifth world title in bareback riding, but faces stiff competition from Kaycee Feild and Will Lowe.
Team roping was the closest competition coming into the National Finals Rodeo with just a few thousand dollars in prize money separating the top headers and heelers.
One of the worst-kept secrets at this year’s Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is that a fifth of the saddle bronc riding field is made up of a trio of Utah cowboys who share the same last name.
Fallon Taylor was fortunate enough to make her NFR debut at age 13 in 1995 — when she finished sixth in the world — and qualified for four straight NFRs before giving up barrel racing to become a professional model.
Team ropers at the National Finals Rodeo embrace the technological side of sport as much as anyone, relying on wives and girlfriends to use iPads and video cameras during practice runs while taping how a cowboy’s horse might begin a run and how the steer its chasing reacts.
Come December each year, it really gets down to crunch time for millions of Americans who participate in fantasy football leagues.
The National Finals Rodeo opened its 10-day run Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Bull rider Steve Woolsey knows all too well what it’s like to be injured and unable to compete in his chosen profession.
If more people aren’t singing to cowboys this National Finals Rodeo week, Clay Walker says it “may be because there aren’t many cowboy singers anymore.”
Trevor Brazile is in Las Vegas to win an unprecedented 11th all-around National Finals Rodeo title during the 10-day run of the Super Bowl of rodeos. But the cowboy from Decatur, Texas, has other business to attend to in Sin City.
The National Finals Rodeo has been a way of life for Shari Rivera and Shada Brazile. The mother and daughter have been coming to Las Vegas for years.
The 2013 National Finals Rodeo kicks off Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus and runs through Dec. 14.
Since falling short of the final qualifying spot for the National Finals Rodeo by $626 in 2008, steer wrestler Casey Martin has used the experience to help fuel his rise to the top of his sport.
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