Five years ago, Stran Smith wasn’t too worried about calf roping. He was more concerned about simply staying alive.
National Finals Rodeo
World champion rodeo athletes aren’t given bonus checks for winning their prestigious titles.
If Randon Adams wasn’t a team roper, he might be able to make a living handling dynamite, nitroglycerine or a surgeon’s scalpel.
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Rookie Tuf Cooper, 18, won Friday’s calf roping go-round with a time of 6.7 seconds, the quickest of the National Finals Rodeo.
Members of the rodeo community helped select the 10 most memorable events of the past 49 National Finals Rodeos.
About 400 exhibitors are camped out through Saturday in the Las Vegas Convention Center for Cowboy Christmas, the official gift show of the National Finals Rodeo.
A calculator will come in handy during the last two nights of the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Lindsay Sears can saddle up her horse, Martha, tonight and ride all out — not that she seems to know any other way to ride.
Jake Barnes left the starting box a hair too quickly Wednesday night, and it cost him and roping partner Clay O’Brien Cooper a five-second penalty.
Bareback rider Bobby Mote tied the Thomas & Mack Center record for the second time this week and took over the lead in the world standings Wednesday night with his third go-round win in seven rounds of the National Finals Rodeo.
