Professional Bull Riders
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.
As Kody Lostroh prepared to ride Voodoo Child — a bull only one other rider had ever successfully stayed on — he didn’t know he had already clinched the Professional Bull Riders world championship.
Five riders tied for the round victory in the Professional Bull Riders World Finals on Saturday — a first in the 16-year history of the series.
The Professional Bull Riders has been using J.B. Mauney somewhat as a poster boy.
Hollywood stunt double Kathy Jarvis jumped off an 80-foot cliff for “Six Days, Seven Nights” and staged a fight in “The Big Lebowski.” She’s put life and limb at risk for cinematic brawls, blasts and blazes.
Kody Lostroh would never vacation in Las Vegas. And he wouldn’t be here now if it weren’t for the Professional Bull Riders World Finals and paychecks with several zeros.
Six of the top 10 competitors in the Professional Bull Riders would like to forget the opening weekend of the World Finals.
Before Saturday, only one rider had ever stayed on board Bones, the 2008 PBR World Champion bull, for eight seconds.
Just making it to the PBR World Finals on Friday was a major accomplishment for bull rider Ryan McConnel, who was involved in a life-threatening car accident Tuesday.