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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
World Series of Team Roping
There was just no way Denny Gentry could sit idly by and
watch the team roping industry develop without him in the middle of it. The man
indelibly left more than just his fingerprint on rodeo's most
heavily-participated in amateur events when he founded the United States Team
Roping... | read »
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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
Rodeo Says Goodbye to Mikel Moreno
I sat on many a West Coast rodeo fence when I was a little girl. My brothers
and I went with our dad, who team roped, bulldogged and roped calves, and so
many of the saddles, buckles and trophies in our living and tack rooms came from
Rosser-run rodeos.
Patriarch ProRodeo Hall of Famer... | read »
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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
Team Roping To Become Standard PRCA Event in 2006
It's about time. That
seems to be the general sentiment surrounding the recent news that, at long
last, team roping will become a standard Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
event in 2006.
What that means is
that rodeos will not be approved for PRCA sanctioning unless they include... | read »
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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
Canton Breaks the Tie-Down World Record
Fourteen-time
Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier Ricky Canton broke the world
tie-down roping record, Thursday, July 28, during the second round of the
Strathmore (Alberta) Stampede.
"It was a fast setup,
it looked like you could be six fairly easily--if anything," Canton said. "But... | read »
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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
Chuck Sheppard The Life of a Legend
Chuck Sheppard lived
a life that few who are alive today can relate to, but all wish we could. He was
born in 1916 in Globe, Arizona. When he was two-years-old, his father packed him
and his sister into what would become their home on Mescal Creek in the
mountains south of Globe, on the... | read »
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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
Hats Off to Western Original Charlie Maggini
The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association has boomed to more than 9,000
contestant members who each year compete at nearly 700 rodeos nationwide and in
Canada. The cowboy sport is Americana at its finest, and the love of this game
is a cherished tradition handed down from one generation to... | read »
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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
Brent Lewis Retires
After 14 years in professional rodeo, Brent Lewis has decided to retire. The
35-year-old tie-down roper (and occasional team roper) from Pinon, N.M., is the
2000 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo average champion, qualified for 11 Wrangler
NFRs, won nearly $1.5 million, was the Resistol Overall... | read »
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Rodeo: News
from the pages of Rodeo
2004 NFR
What a wild week of team roping we just had at the 2004 Wrangler National
Finals Rodeo . Five teams--Speed Williams and Rich Skelton, David Key and Clay
O'Brien Cooper, Jake Barnes and Allen Bach, Clay Tryan and Michael Jones,
and Steve Purcella and Britt Bockius--duked it out until the last... | read »
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| Learning to Take Chances to Become a Winner |
| At some point in your career, you’re going to have to learn to be an aggressive team roper if you want to have success--especially in the rodeo arena. You have to learn to reach. You don’t have to be wild, but there is an art to reaching. A guy who can reach at the rodeos if he needs to... | read |
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