Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira just tied a Wrangler National Finals Rodeo arena record with a 3.3-second run.

LAS VEGAS – Tim O’Connell had a gut feeling the match-up was going to happen. The reigning world champion bareback rider had already been matched with the 2017 Bareback Horse of the Year, Virgil, in the third go-round of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. The result was an arena-record tying ride of 91.5. In his[...]

LAS VEGAS – Hardy Braden doesn’t have to look too far to find his bronc riding hero. It’s his dad, Butch, who rode broncs professionally for a number of years before becoming a PRCA pickup man. Hardy Braden learned everything he knows about the game from his dad before furthering his education at both Fort[...]

Defending champ, Inman advance to final day of BFO Las Vegas Championship LAS VEGAS – Fifteen stitches and a bum hamstring had nothing on Weston Rutkowski. The reigning Bullfighters Only world champion suffered those injuries a week ago, but what hurt him more was the doubt that was cast on his ability and his work[...]

LAS VEGAS – Bareback rider Clayton Biglow’s Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is like an old truck engine: It took a little while to get warmed up, but it’s humming right along now. Biglow, 22, of Clements, Calif., failed to catch a check in the first five rounds of this year’s 10-round finale. Since the second[...]

Bareback riding: 1. Richmond Champion, 88 points on Hi Lo ProRodeo Pretty Woman, $26,231; 2. Clayton Biglow, 86.5, $20,731; 3. Jake Brown, 86, $15,564; 4. (tie) Tim O’Connell and JR Vezain, 85, $8,885 each; 6. Bill Tutor, 84.5, $4,231. Steer wrestling: 1. Chason Floyd, 3.7 seconds, $26,231; 2. Rowdy Parrott, 3.8, $20,731; 3. (tie) Jon[...]

LAS VEGAS – Richmond Champion’s phenomenal week in the Nevada desert just keeps getting better. Champion rode Hi Lo ProRodeo’s Pretty Woman for 88 points Wednesday night to win the eighth go-round of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. That $26,231 pushed his NFR earnings to $103,853 and moved him past the $205,000 mark in his[...]

LAS VEGAS – If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a big team to care for one of the greatest horses in rodeo. That’s what happens with Scooter, the 2017 Steer Wrestling Horse of the Year owned by Tyler Pearson and Kyle Irwin. He’s also being ridden this week at[...]

LAS VEGAS – Mason Clements can’t stop marveling about his first experience at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. He shouldn’t. This is the grandest event in the sport, a 10-round affair that features only the very best in the game from the 2017 season. He’s one of the 120 contestants competing this week at the[...]

LAS VEGAS – Even though he won Tuesday’s sixth round, Clayton Biglow liked Wednesday’s ride better at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. “That was probably the best I’ve felt all week,” said Biglow, who rode Pickett Pro Rodeo’s Scarlet Fever for 85.5 points to finish in a tie for second place with reigning world champion[...]