The interstates and two-lane roads that link Kansas communities are hoppin’ this week as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association contestants make their way to rodeo hot spots like Hill City, Phillipsburg, Abilene and Dodge City. Big money is available, and the proximity of those towns to one another makes it[...]

LOVINGTON, N.M. – About 10,000 live in Lovington. Thousands more call it home, and they find their way back every August for the Lea County Fair and Rodeo. This year’s festivities will take place Aug. 5-13, and the community will blossom despite the southeastern New Mexico heat. In fact, the folks who flood to Lovington[...]

SILVERTON, Texas – Most rodeos are produced by a small core group of people who spend each year working out all the fine details. There are just fewer folks in Silverton, Texas. Still, the community that boasts about 600 residents still puts on one of the biggest celebrations in this portion of Texas, the annual[...]

LOVINGTON, N.M. – Ice cream might just be the ideal treat on a hot August day in southeastern New Mexico. The right ice cream recipe might receive special treatment, as in a grand championship at this year’s Lea County Fair and Rodeo. The Lea County Extension is conducting four cookoffs in an effort to expand[...]

LOVINGTON, N.M. – Many great things are part of the Lea County Fair & Rodeo. With a long rodeo history, this section of New Mexico knows the sport better than most. They know great cowboys, from guys like Jake McClure in the early 1900s to the young guns like Jim and Jake Cooper. They know[...]

EAGLE, Colo. – The ultimate goal for Louie Brunson is the world champion’s gold buckle; that’s the goal of every contestant going down the ProRodeo trail. For the time being, the will settle for rodeo victories and a shot at qualifying for ProRodeo’s championship event, the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. His latest triumph came July[...]

Anyone who knows me knows I’m passionate about many things: God, family, friends, rodeo and storytelling are among them. I developed Rodeo Media Relations and TwisTED Rodeo because I see a need for the rodeo stories to reach as many people as possible. I believe in the concept of good media relations, that presented in[...]

Bull riding fans will find a familiar name among the Cheyenne Frontier Days leaders. Steer roper Justin McKee of Lenapah, Okla., is leading the second go-round with a 13.2-second run and sits third in the two-run average with 30.7. McKee has done well in Cheyenne before, and it looks as though he’s in position to[...]

LOVINGTON, N.M. – A $5 bill doesn’t go nearly as far as it did even a decade ago. The organizers of the Lea County Fair and Rodeo are trying to give its patrons a taste of the past with a $5 admission fee. That’s packing a whale of a wallop into the entertainment punch for[...]

SILVERTON, Texas – It’s quite fitting James Lann is the headline Texas Country concert act on the final night of Silverton’s Buck Wild Days Rodeo. Lann is a cowboy, the fifth generation of his family to be such. Raised on a ranch where he rode horses, roped livestock and handled many of the other duties[...]