Announcer, Cinch endorsee uses Southern charm to make the right calls Just six days after announcing his fourth National Finals Rodeo in December, Roger Mooney packed up his family and made an 80-mile drive from their home in Ellijay, Georgia, to the state’s capitol in the heart of Atlanta. “My kids got to go into[...]

DUNCAN, Okla. – COVID-19 did a number on many people around the world, and it affected their lives and their livelihoods. Take Cody Ballard, a cowboy from Tutum, New South Wales in Australia, who had been in the United States for several years competing in college, then professional rodeo. He decided to make a trip[...]

DUNCAN, Okla. –The first champion of the first PRCA event produced by McCoy Rodeo happened early Friday evening. Mark Kreder rode McCoy’s Joe Bad for 79 points to claim the top score on the opening night of Cord McCoy’s ProRodeo at the Stephens County Arena in Duncan. It was a nice salute from Kreder to[...]

JACKSONVILLE, Texas –It’s time for this community to gather together again, and the opportunity is happening soon. This marks the return of the Tops in Texas Rodeo, set for 7 p.m. Thursday, May 13-Saturday, May 15, at the Jacksonville Rodeo Arena. Cancelled a year ago while under the grips of a worldwide pandemic, the organizers[...]

JACKSONVILLE, Texas –The staff of Pete Carr Pro Rodeo is a bit like the Wizard of Oz. There are a lot of behind-the-curtain things happening to help make the Tops in Texas Rodeo make seamless transitions from one aspect of the event to the next. It’s not movie-making nor witchcraft; it’s a detailed approach to[...]

ALVA, Okla. – It all started with an email during Mckayla Alliston’s senior year of high school in Buckhead, Georgia. “It came from a guy named Stockton Graves, and I’d never heard of him before that,” said Alliston, a senior at Northwestern Oklahoma State University who won the championship round in breakaway roping at the[...]

From wild nights to dad life, CINCH cowboy is still riding strong Tilden Hooper’s mind works a bit differently than most men. He’s a bareback rider in professional rodeo. Those cowboys consider things in spectacular ways. Like a runaway train, there is something always racing inside them. Not many people in this world would strap[...]

GUYMON, Okla. – Ryan Jarrett has been in this place before. The Oklahoma Panhandle. Henry C. Hitch Pioneer Arena. The final performance of the Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo. The winner’s circle. Jarrett, the 2005 all-around world champion from Comanche, Oklahoma, won another Pioneer Days Rodeo championship trophy belt to add to his collection by claiming[...]

GUYMON, Okla. – Familiarity may breed contempt for most, but not rodeo cowboys. Roscoe Jarboe had a good history with Frontier Rodeo’s Lookin’ Up, winning the bull riding title at the Cody (Wyoming) Stampede last July. The two were matched together again Saturday during the second performance of the Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo, and the[...]

GUYMON, Okla. – Marcus Theriot may be from Mississippi, but he’s making a solid rodeo living in Oklahoma this year. In January, he qualified for the International Finals Rodeo and pocketed nearly $11,000 at the top minor league rodeo association’s championship event. In March, he won the Timed Event Championship, which paid $100,000 to the[...]