Rodeo
Soccer is the most popular sport in Brazil, but its most successful athletes in the United States play with bulls, not balls.
Renato Nunes of Brazil won the Professional Bull Riders series championship and a $1 million bonus this afternoon at the Thomas & Mack Center before a crowd of more than 16,000.
The last time mystical meditation and an ancient Eastern discipline mixed with cowboys was probably in the 1970s when actor David Carradine played monk Kwai Chang Caine on the TV show “Kung Fu.”
Fresh from a stint on Broadway, J.B. Mauney and the Professional Bull Riders are in Las Vegas for the 17th annual PBR World Finals, which begin at 6 p.m. today with a new five-day, championship format.
It took Trevor Brazile longer than he expected to rope most of his calves and catch his steers in team roping.
