If Cody Ohl’s 2013 season were one of those clever AT&T commercials, the script might go something like this:
Rodeo
The story of Tyson Durfey and Shea Fisher has played out like the rodeo version of star football player and cheer captain. Except Durfey tackles and ties calves, and Fisher croons out country tunes, with an Australian twang to boot.
The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo crowd at the Thomas &Mack Center during Round 5 tonight will look a bit different than usual.
Las Vegas Events, the nonprofit organization marketing and promoting the popular National Finals Rodeo, has an offer on the table with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to keep the prized event in Las Vegas beyond 2014.
Tie-down roper Shane Hanchey has won more than $44,000 through the first four rounds of the National Finals Rodeo, but he’s more excited about the $1,800 he pocketed Saturday on a $300 three-team college football parlay.
Have you ever wanted to see a basketball court turn into a rodeo stage? Well, now you can.
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.
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