Emily Miller’s earnings at the Calgary Stampede helped her qualify for her first National Finals Rodeo.
Patrick Everson
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Patrick Everson covers sporting events as a freelance writer in Las Vegas.
“The viewers at hotels don’t see all the commercials. We’re always showing the arena, so fans get the experience of being in the arena,” DAvid Glodt said.
Rodeo fans tend to be sports fans in general, too. As such, there’s certainly a segment of the rodeo fan base that might also enjoy betting.
Shad Mayfield won the National High School Rodeo Association tie-down roper championship in July 2018. Seventeen months later, he is in Las Vegas for the biggest rodeo of them all.
As Thanksgiving Day approached, defending world champion team roper Clay Smith certainly had much to be grateful for from the past 12 months.
On Monday morning at the Wrangler Rodeo Arena, housed on the second floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center, a group of local special needs children got to try their hand at rodeo.
In 2018, the NFR welcomed a new charitable event to its fold, the Golden Circle of Champions. Twenty pediatric patients who are fighting or have beaten cancer — 10 from across the country, and 10 from Southern Nevada — were treated to a weekend of rodeo festivities in Las Vegas.
When Kaycee Feild discusses what happened to him back on March 31, one can’t help but be shocked that the 32-year-old cowboy is actually again among the field of 120 at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
When you think of Cowboy Christmas, things that typically leap to mind are hats, boots, perhaps jeans and other Western wear.
Perhaps the best thing that ever happened to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo was a live TV feed to hotel properties all over Las Vegas.
Lisa Lockhart, who has qualified for the NFR 13 consecuutive times, finished 11th in the world in 2018, with season earnings of $170,746.
Grant a Gift gives the children and families a break from the usual pattern of treatment at the autism center, instead using some animal therapy.
For the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, the No. 1 priority is security.
All you rodeo fans flooding Las Vegas this week have an awful lot to keep track of each day.
As the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo rides into town for its 35th 10-day run at the Thomas Mack Center, numerous individuals deserve credit for first bringing this event to Las Vegas in 1985.