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Cody Snow and Wesley Thorp won the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up after roping four head in 29.1 seconds, worth $3,870 each. Snow and Thorp started the weekend off placing fourth in the first round with a 6.9-second run, worth $1,178 a man. In the second round the duo tied for third ...read more

Spencer Mitchell and Clay O’Brien Cooper won the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo after roping two head in 13.9 seconds, worth $2,492 each. They tied Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira for sixth in the first round with a 6.9 second run, worth $470 each. Mitchell and Cooper ...read more

Derrick Begay was on my mind yesterday, and it’s no wonder. I didn’t know it before we talked, but he had just run his last steer—for now, anyway—with Clay O’Brien Cooper the night before.Begay and Cooper closed this chapter of their partnership April 11 at the Clark County Fair ...read more

Andrew and Regan Ward tied with Logan Olson and Matt Kastner for the finals win at the RNCFR win in Kissimmee, Florida, but Olson and Kastner held on for the RNCFR title with $20,090 a man won in total. The Wards and Olson and Kastner each roped their final round steer in 5.4 ...read more

Kaitlin Gustave: You’re currently fifth in the standings. How is that compared to this time last year?Wesley Thorp: It’s pretty similar to last year around this time if I’m not mistaken. I think we were somewhere inside the top 10. We’ve been to less rodeos at this year compared ...read more

Ryan Motes–bolstered by the talents one of the greatest heel horses of the last decade, Starbucks–has recently rolled over the $1-million mark in PRCA career earnings. Motes has qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo four times in his career, which began in 2001 when he ...read more

Lane Ivy and Ryan Motes roped three steers in a time of 12.36 seconds to win the average at the first-ever Lone Star Shootout Open Roping with a #16 incentive in Stephenville, Texas worth $60,000 total.“It was a fast roping,” Motes said. “We had a couple of good steers which ...read more

The Camarillos and Nogueiras go way back. Fact is, the familial friendship goes all the way back to when ProRodeo Hall of Fame brothers Leo and Jerold Camarillo went to Brazil in the 1980s to put on a roping school and met renowned roper Lucinei Nogueira Sr.“Another thing I ...read more

Myles Neighbors was just 9 years old the last time Tiger Woods sported his signature Sunday-red shirt to win a major championship, but the 19-year-old Arkansas cowboy wore bright red for Championship Sunday anyway. "I don't quite remember Tiger Woods golfing," Neighbors, a ...read more

Squaw Valley, California's 28-year-old Jordan Ketscher, in just his second appearance at the Cinch Timed Event Championship, is in the driver's seat to win the $100,000 payday heading into the fifth and final round of competition at the Lazy E Arena. Ketscher's aggregate time of ...read more

Myles Neighbors, of Benton, Arkansas won Round 2 of the Lazy E Arena's Jr. Ironman, with a time of 42.3 seconds on four head, moving him to first in the aggregate after eight with a time of 98.2 seconds. The go-round win paid $1,000, and is the second go-round win of Neighbors' ...read more

Bo Yaussi, of Udall, Kansas, is in the driver's seat to defend his 2017 Jr. Ironman title at the Lazy E Arena, starting off the first round with a pack-leading 42.3 seconds on four head, worth $1,000. "I pulled on my head horse a little bit," Yaussi said. "So he kind of turned in ...read more

Junior Nogueira had a special angel riding shotgun when he pulled back on his first $100,000 team roping title at The American last Sunday, February 25, in Dallas. The night before, Junior’s late dad and namesake, Lucinei Nunes Nogueira Sr, was inducted into the Associacao ...read more

In 1996, a Texas kid named Trevor Brazile was breaking in steers for Jimmy Smith, of Denton’s Smith Brothers Arena, any time Smith got freshies to rope. Sometimes it was 10, sometimes 100—it didn’t matter, because Brazile didn’t have an arena of his own and he was always hungry ...read more

Zane Barnson and Cole Wilson won the average at the La Fiesta De Los Vaqueros in Tucson, Arizona, after turning in a time of 21.4 seconds on three head worth $4,070 each. In the first round, Barnson and Wilson roped their steer in 6.6 seconds for fourth in the round worth $1,652 ...read more

Coleman Proctor and Billie Jack Saebens jumped to the number-four spot in the PRCA World Standings with $29,100.99 won after banking $23,015 each at the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo. Proctor and Saebens started out their week in San Antonio (Texas) in Bracket 2. They ...read more

Two-Time CINCH Timed Event Championship winner Kyle Lockett prepares for another year at The Lazy E arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Having won the CTEC in 2005 and 2011, Lockett has a pretty good idea of what it takes to win and pace himself for the 25 head contest.Kaitlin Gustave: ...read more

Matt Sherwood and Walt Woodard exited the arena at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in Fort Worth, Texas each with $8,909 in the bank after they roped three head in 15.6 seconds to take home the average win. Their team didn’t get in the money for the first two ...read more

Luke Brown and Jake Long split $30,000 after roping six steers in 40.91 seconds, besting the field of 37 teams at this year's Wildfire Open to the World in Hamilton, Texas. Brown and Long were high call heading into the short round in the progressive-after-three jackpot, which ...read more

Coleman Proctor has roped at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo four times, but has yet to bring home the gold buckle. The cowboy out of Pryor, Oklahoma, will continue to rope with partner Bille Jack Saebens in 2018 with the gold buckle still in mind. Kaitlin Gustave: What are ...read more

Aaron Tsinigine and Kyle Locket won the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver, Colorado with a time of 16.2 seconds on three head, worth $5,949 each. They didn't win any money in rounds one and two, but their team placed second in the final round with a 5.7 second run, ...read more

Clay Smith is no stranger to the Lazy E Arena. Just last year, Smith left Guthire, Oklahoma with $28,000 after turning in a combined time in five events on 332.8 seconds after five rounds, good enough to take second behind Jess Tierney who won the TEC with 326.8 seconds on 25 ...read more

Veteran Kory Koontz is geared and ready for the 2018 rodeo season. Kory plans on continuing his partnership with last years Wrangler National Finals Rookie Dustin Egusquiza.Kaitlin Gustave: Are you and Dustin Egusquiza roping together again this year?Kory Koontz: Well he hasn't ...read more

As the rodeo season is starting back ups, Clay Smith and Paul Eaves find themselves in the hot-seat banking a total of $20,763.02 each thus far. Their team recently won the Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo in Waco, Texas with a time of 14.7 seconds on three head worth $3,025 each. They ...read more

This is a developing story. Please stand by for more coverage in the coming days. Colorado Springs, Colorado–The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association has named George Taylor its Chief Executive Officer.Taylor is a former executive with Caterpillar, where he was most recently a ...read more

Charly Crawford finished the 2017 season roping with Joseph Harrison. As Harrison headed back home from the rodeo trail to get back into horse showing, Crawford will be roping with Clint Summers to kick-off the 2018 season.Kaitlin Gustave: Have you and Clint Summers roped ...read more