TIMED EVENT IS A SHOWCASE OF RUGGED TALENT BY PRORODEO’S STARS GUTHRIE, Okla. – In three decades of featuring rodeo legends, the Timed Event Championship of the World has crowned just a dozen men as its champion. That is as true an indication of the challenge the greatest all-around timed-event contestants face through the five-round,[...]

Like so many from southern Colorado, Darrel Radacy moved to Oklahoma to chase his rodeo dreams. Radacy was a team roper I met more than a decade ago because of rodeo. A graduate of Panhandle State University, he was part of the Massey family of western Oklahoma, marrying Jami in 1990. I saw the two[...]

GUTHRIE, Okla. – After a decade away, the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association’s Range Round-Up is returning to its original home, the Lazy E Arena. The 31st annual event will take place Aug. 28-29, 2015, at the Lazy E Arena, which served as a two-decade host of the Range Round-Up beginning with its inception in 1985. “We[...]

OKLAHOMA BRONC BUSTER WINS TIGHT RACY BY SHARING FINAL-ROUND TITLE OKLAHOMA CITY – Sean Prater and Shawn Minor have been locked in a dogfight for the International Professional Rodeo Association’s saddle bronc riding world title. The battle waged all the way through the final day of the season Sunday afternoon during the fourth go-round of[...]

3-TIME CHAMP WINS THIRD STRAIGHT ROUND AT HOMETOWN EVENT OKLAHOMA CITY – Ronnie Fields picked himself off the Jim Norick State Fair Arena dirt, dusted his jeans and shook his head. International Finals Rodeo 45 has been that good to the Oklahoma City steer wrestler. He has earned at least a share of the title[...]

17-YEAR-OLD CHAMP WINS SECOND ROUND AT IFR 45 OKLAHOMA CITY – Four months shy of his 18th birthday, Garrett Tribble of Bristow, Okla., is already a world champion bull rider. “I couldn’t ask for a better year,” said Tribble, who has earned more than $39,500 this season in the International Professional Rodeo Association. “It’s been[...]

SECOND-GENERATION BAREBACK RIDER SPUR LACASSE WINS FIRST ROUND OF IFR 45 OKLAHOMA CITY – Spur Lacasse is carrying on a family legacy in the world of rodeo. Lacasse, a 21-year-old bareback rider from Mirabel, Quebec, won Friday’s opening round of International Finals Rodeo 45, spurring Hampton Rodeo’s Black Water for 79.75 points, collecting $1,792 in[...]

Can’t make it to the International Finals Rodeo this weekend but still want to watch? The Wrangler Network will broadcast all four go-rounds. Just click on the HERE to go directly to the page and click on the IFR 45 logo. The Wrangler Network is home to many great events and provides rodeo fans with[...]

DUNCAN, Okla. – The Prairie Circuit has a grand history in professional rodeo. World champions from the Oklahoma-Kansas-Nebraska region dot the landscape, just as the tiny towns and larger communities: Shoulders, Duvall, Etbauer, Ferguson, Roberts, Ward and Gorsuch are just a few of those who have worn the coveted gold buckles. Add Kimzey to that[...]

CHAMPIONSHIP HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE HEARTS OF SOONER STATE CONTESTANTS OKLAHOMA CITY – Middle America is the perfect home for the International Finals Rodeo. “There are a lot of people in the state of Oklahoma that still love rodeo,” said Fields, a three-time International Professional Rodeo Association world champion steer wrestler from Oklahoma[...]