Tana Poppino is quite busy this week getting ready for next week. It’s time to chase the big dollars at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and the Big Cabin, Okla., cowgirl is excited to be back in the race where go-round winners earn $17,512 each of the 10 nights in Las Vegas. But the reality[...]

LAS VEGAS – If you ask Cort Scheer about his rodeo dreams, he can give you explicit details. They’ve been part of his life all his life, from his first days in the saddle in the sandhills of Nebraska to his first Prairie Circuit saddle bronc riding championship. It’s also part of every day over[...]

LAS VEGAS – Justin McDaniel has earned $81,850 so far this year. He did it on the backs of the some of the toughest bucking horses in ProRodeo. More importantly, he did it in just four months, having to be a short-order specialist in order to qualify for his fourth straight Wrangler National Finals Rodeo,[...]

LAS VEGAS – Tyson Durfey admits he’s having the best season of his career. There’s no reason for that to change now – especially now, as he prepares for ProRodeo’s grand finale, the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, set for Dec. 2-11 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. It’s the fourth straight year[...]

LAS VEGAS – It took D.V. Fennell 15 years for his first qualification to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. His second trip to Sin City took just 12 months. The Neosho, Mo., bareback returns to ProRodeo’s grand finale, which features the top 15 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association contestants in each event, based on their finish[...]

This year’s Wrangler National Finals Rodeo will be a little different for saddle bronc riding fans. Between them, Billy Etbauer and Rod Hay have 41 qualifications to ProRodeo’s finale. Neither will nod his head inside the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, which begins in less than two weeks. Etbauer, a five-time world champion, failed to[...]

I will be doing media/publicity for four NFR contestants and Carr Pro Rodeo — there may be more coming, but that’s what I’ve agreed to right now. That means I have nine pre-NFR stories that will be sent out to the media starting next week. But I think twisTEDrodeo.com readers deserve to see them first.[...]

Tammy White knows what it takes to win the Great Lakes Circuit’s barrel racing championship. Heck, she’s done it five straight years, all with her traveling partner, Luckys Tiny Bit, a 14-year-old bay gelding. She clinched the year-end championship after winning the first of three rounds at the Great Lakes Circuit Finals Rodeo in Louisville,[...]

Tyson Durfey is a champion, eh. Twice in his young career, the Missouri-born tie-down roper rode away from the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, with the Canadian championship, 2006 and 2008. In fact, he’s the first American to win a Canadian title, followed shortly thereafter by South Dakota barrel racer Lisa Lockhart. Each of[...]

Tie down roper Tuf Cooper clinched his first Canadian championship over the weekend, earning $27,667 at the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta. He’s also heading back to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in two weeks No. 2 in the world standings, making his third straight trip. But he’s not the first American to win the[...]