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Team Ropers
The Man, The Myth, The Legend: Bob Feist
Bob Feist is the founder of the Bob Feist Invitational (BFI) and a 45-year professional rodeo announcer. He also founded Ropers Sports News—the first publication ever dedicated solely to team roping—back in 1968, and still serves as the paper’s publisher. Feist, 81, lives in Lodi, California.

Rope Horse Care
There Will Never Be Another Scooter
Charles Pogue's iconic Scooter was a four-legged wonder.

Team Ropers
At Home with Shad Feild
Shad Feild is the son of late ProRodeo Hall of Famer Lewis Feild and Veronica Feild Jackson. He’s also big brother to six-time and reigning World Champion Bareback Rider Kaycee Feild. Entrepreneur and pilot Shad, 39, lives in Roosevelt, Utah, with his wife, Jazlyn, and their five kids, Daxtyn, 15, Bronx, 11, Mavryx, 9, and twin daughters, Poppy and Goldie, 5. Jazlyn Feild is NFR team roper and tie-down roper Rhen Richard’s sister.

Team Ropers
At Home With: South Point GM Ryan Growney
As general manager of the South Point Hotel Casino & Spa in Las Vegas, Ryan Growney proudly serves as South Point owner Michael Gaughan’s right-hand man. The South Point this month plays host to the Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale, and as always Growney and Gaughan will be greeting team ropers from far and wide. Growney lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Sierra, and their little girl, Scarlett, who was born in Vegas during the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

Team Ropers
Katey Jo Gordon IS the Ultimate Cowboy
Katey Jo Gordon grew up in Jal, New Mexico, and now makes her home in Comanche, Oklahoma, with her husband, Dylan. This 5+ header and 4 heeler—who turned 29 on Nov. 25—is a ranching, barrel racing, breakaway roping, team roping cowgirl supreme.

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Welcome to the Ward & Hawkins Show
Andrew Ward and Buddy Hawkins surprised some when they made their first of two-straight Wrangler National Finals Rodeos together in 2020. Others were straight-up stunned when they were the ones who broke Jake Barnes and Clay Cooper’s 27-year-old NFR average record in Las Vegas last December. God might be the only one who saw superstardom—including the 2022 windfall wins at both the Lone Star Shootout and The American—included in life’s master script for the uniquely wired team of Ward and Hawkins. These guys don’t see or walk through this world the same way as the other big dogs.

Team Ropers
Fighting for Their Young Cowboy Lives
Caden Cavness, Cade Walker and Walker Huggins are all young cowboys fighting for survival.

Team Ropers
The Horseman’s Breeder: Mel Potter

Team Ropers
Lucky Ward, Team Roping Fan
How team roping has brought joy to one young, deserving fan named Lucky.

Rope Horses
The Pitzer Legacy: Jim Brinkman and the Family Tradition That Helped Shape the Horse Market
Jim Brinkman and his wife, Tana, are living the Pitzer Ranch legacy started by Jim’s grandfather Howard Pitzer in the Sandhills of north central Nebraska in Ericson. They work alongside their grown children—son Sam and his wife, Kendra; and daughter Sarah and her husband, Lane Larreau—and run horses and cattle per family tradition. Plenty of team roping time is built into the Pitzer Ranch work schedule.