Round 10 Bareback riding: 1. Clayton Biglow, 93 points on Northcott Macza’s Stevie Knicks, $26,231; 2. Tim O’Connell, 91.5, $20,731; 3. Trenten Montero, 89.5, $15,654; 4. Orin Larsen, 89, $11,000; 5. Tanner Aus, 88.5, $6,769; 6. Tilden Hooper, 88, $4,231; 7. Richmond Champion, 87.5; 8. Clint Laye, 85; 9. Steven Dent, 84.5; 10. Ty Breuer,[...]

LAS VEGAS – Every bull that Jordan Spears rides means more money at the National Finals Rodeo. Sure, he’s placed in four of nine rounds, earning $47,231 in the process, but there’s more to it. After Wednesday’s seventh go-round, he sat fifth in the NFR average race. As of Friday night, he is third. The[...]

LAS VEGAS – He says and does all the right things, and he is, deep inside, awfully proud of his friends who have chance to win the 2019 bareback riding world championship. But Tim O’Connell’s face wreaks of disappointment. He plowed through the latter parts of ProRodeo’s regular season, earning more than $100,000 in three[...]

LAS VEGAS – When Richmond Champion married Paige Lawrence earlier this year, he knew he was getting a champion’s mentality. She is an Olympian who competed in pairs skating at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. She was raised in a rodeo family but understands what it means to compete at an elite level. She[...]

LAS VEGAS – John Aus rode bareback horses for a long time and, in 1988, he won the title in the Great Lakes Circuit. He even raised a bareback rider, who has taken the game to a bigger level and on a bigger stage. Tanner Aus is now a four-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier, and[...]

LAS VEGAS – When Clayton Biglow was preparing to make his bareback ride Friday, Sozo of Sankey Pro Rodeo & Phenom Genetics was doing everything in the horse’s power to not let it happen. Just before he nodded his head, the official on the back of the chute tried to inform the California cowboy that[...]

Bareback riding: 1. Jake Brown, 89.5 point on J Bar J’s Blessed Assurance, $26,231; 2. Caleb Bennett, 89, $20,731; 3. (tie) Tanner Aus and Clayton Biglow, 88.5, $13,127 each; 5. Kaycee Feild, 86.5, $6,769; 6. Tim O’Connell, 86, $4,231. Steer wrestling: 1. Ty Erickson, 3.6 seconds, $26,231; 2. Tyler Pearson, 4.2, $20,731; 3. Cameron Morman,[...]

A year ago, I wrote a column about the media not being welcomed at the National Finals Rodeo, a damning statement about the perception most of us had as we attempted to cover last year’s championship. My, how things have changed. The PRCA’s media department staff, just as they were a year ago, has been[...]

LAS VEGAS – Thursday night in Sin City, nobody breathed a bigger sigh of relief than steer wrestler Tanner Brunner. He started off the National Finals Rodeo on a rough note, settling for a no-time in the opening round on Dec. 5. He followed that with four more tough nights, three slow runs and another[...]

LAS VEGAS – Jordan Spears has ridden five of eight bulls at the National Finals Rodeo as he prepares to close out the final two nights of the 2019 ProRodeo season. That’s 63 percent, and that’s awfully good in bull riding. It’s especially good at the NFR, which features the best bulls in the business.[...]