Rich Skelton talks about The Masters of Team Roping.

Rickey Green at The Feist.

At 26, PRCA roper Brit Ellerman has already been successfully managing his leather business for a number of years and is officially popping the top on a number of other ventures.

When Californian Phil Stadtler headed to Mexico in the ’40s in search of rodeo steers, he set ropers on a clear path to the sport of team roping.

For Sherry Robinson, who threw the winning loop around her steer’s heels at the 2012 Cinch Cruel Girl Championships at age 60, catching two feet “is just a gas.”

The era when jackpots were (not quite) open to the world

The 1017 Project Repurposes Roped-Out Steers to Feed the Hungry.

In 1998, Jesse Gonzales was hired on at Cactus Ropes. As members of his family began following suit through the last 20-plus years, they amassed more than 250 years of experience building ropes.

The dos and don'ts in the buying and selling horse business.

Two-time Finale money-winner Lowell Neshem’s mental grit results in a helicopter pilot’s dream job and roping that gets better year after year.

Being able to trust every aspect in team roping.

Gilbert Carrillo put down his bull rope in 2006 and is now an active team roper.

Arizonan Jim Scott returns to the roping arena in time for his 89th birthday.

Mathews Land & Cattle employee Rockey Ramone sports the Springfest 2018 Champion Heeling buckle that was gifted to him over a bet.

The team roping industry is one of the few in the equine world that relies so heavily on geldings. But over the years, a few exceptional mares have stood out from the pack to win world titles, major jackpots and millions upon millions in cash. We searched the records and mined the memories of ropings’ legends to come up with 13 iconic horses who happen to have the XX chromosome.

TCAA Artist and team roper Beau Compton looks forward in his silver shop and the roping arena.

Four-time Wrangler NFR bulldogger, Frank Thompson has been spending his time roping and working as the Cheyenne Frontier Days arena director.

Just how and why ropers ended up becoming Arizona Snowbirds.

Beaver Bird paved the way for Wickenburg to become the Team Roping Capitol of the World.

The women who make the winter work in Arizona.

Bill Spratt is a Wyoming native who’s spent a lifetime in the saddle with a rope in his hand. The 78-year-old Bill and his wife, Pat, raised their two cowboy sons, T.J. and Ace, in the wide open spaces of the sprawling family ranch in Lysite, Wyoming. These days, Bill and Pat Spratt spend the winter months in Wittmann, Arizona, where they’re neighbors to the likes of brothers Brady and Riley Minor, and share their home with cousin Jake Minor.

Technically, Colorado header Dylan White is a Systems Engineer who is working on a spacecraft—not a rocket—but it sits atop a rocket on its way to space, so, close enough for us non-rocket scientists in the room.

How our attributions are helping or hurting our winning process.

During his 35 years as the Timed Event Championship gateman, Delmar Smith has acquired a lifetime—and then some—of cowboy wisdom.

How and why Arizona became the winter hot spot for the sport of team roping.

At home with USTRC roping producer Jeff Smith.