Timed Event Championship: Paul David Tierney
PAUL DAVID TIERNEY, Oral, S.D. One does not grow up in the shadows of one of ProRodeo’s top all-around cowboys without learning a thing or two. Paul David Tierney is the youngest son of two-time PRCA World Champion Paul Tierney, a four-time winner of the Timed Event Championship. It’s quite possible the biggest lesson the […]
Timed Event Championship: Paul Tierney
PAUL TIERNEY, Oral, S.D. Which statistic do you want first? Is it Paul Tierney’s tie-down roping world championship, which he won in 1979? Is it his all-around gold buckle, which he earned in 1980, ending the six-year reign atop the rodeo world by Oklahoman Tom Ferguson? Is it his induction into the ProRodeo Hall of […]
Timed Event Championship: JoJo LeMond
JoJo LeMOND, Andrews, Texas JoJo LeMond might just be the smallest man in the field of 20 outstanding competitors. That’s OK, because there’s no way to precisely measure the size of a cowboy’s heart, and LeMond’s is bigger and brighter than nearly any man his size. Given the challenges faced by the smaller cowboy, LeMond […]
Pete Carr purchases Classic Pro Rodeo
Top-level stock contractor setting new standard in rodeo livestock and production DALLAS – Pete Carr has purchased Classic Pro Rodeo, unhinging the perfect storm that will set a new standard for stock contractors in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. With the acquisition, Carr will merge Classic Pro Rodeo with his own Carr Pro Rodeo to […]
Timed Event Championship: Jimmie Cooper
JIMMIE COOPER, Monument, N.M. Jimmie Cooper’s rise to the top of professional rodeo was considerably quicker than most that play the game. After filling his permit at the first rodeo in which he competed, Cooper was named the PRCA’s overall, tie-down and steer wrestling rookie of the year in 1980. A year later, he roped […]
Timed Event Championship: Trevor Brazile
TREVOR BRAZILE, Decatur, Texas There are many numbers associated with Trevor Brazile’s magnificent career. Seventeen – as in the number of world championship gold buckles; 10 – as in the number of all-around world championships; six – as in the number of Timed Event Championship titles. When you add it all up, the math is […]
Timed Event Championship: Landon McClaugherty
LANDON McCLAUGHERTY, Tilden, Texas There were no magic seeds that served in the Timed Event Championship pumpkin for Landon McClaugherty last March. Maybe the sophomore jinx took over for the rookie magic that appeared in 2011. After a phenomenal start to his TEC career, in which he finished the 25 head in a cumulative time […]
Pierce, Pozzi to represent Texas at RNCFR
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story appears in the February issue of Women’s Pro Rodeo News, the official magazine of the WPRA. It is being republished here with the magazine’s consent. Carlee Pierce needed a dominant run at the Ram Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo if she were to reach another major goal in her ProRodeo career. Mission […]
Timed Event Championship: Jade Corkill
JADE CORKILL, Fallon, Nev. Last December, Jade Corkill marked his arrival in ProRodeo’s history in dramatic fashion. Roping with Georgia header Kaleb Driggers, Corkill won at least a share of two go-rounds, placing in four others, at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. In all, each cowboy earned $84,660 in Las Vegas. That propelled Corkill to […]
Timed Event Championship: Mike Outhier
MIKE OUTHIER, Utopia, Texas How in the world does a four-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo saddle bronc riding qualifier get into the field for the Timed Event Championship? Well, he’d better be pretty handy with a rope and understand timed events well. That describes Mike Outhier pretty well. Yes, he was the 1998 PRCA Resistol […]
Timed Event Championship: Dustin Bird
DUSTIN BIRD, Cut Bank, Mont. Dustin Bird isn’t Canadian, though it’s less than an hour’s drive from his home in northern Montana to the Alberta border. Still, Bird owns one of the most coveted pieces of hardware ever issued by the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association – the 2012 team roping championship. But what made last […]
Timed Event Championship: Trell Etbauer
TRELL ETBAUER, Gruver, Texas The Etbauer name is etched deeply in rodeo’s lore. The family owns seven PRCA world championships – a telling tale in its own right. But those gold buckles come in saddle bronc riding, and nobody knows that any better than Trell Etbauer, the 28-year-old son of two-time world champion Robert Etbauer […]
Timed Event Championship: Spencer Mitchell
SPENCER MITCHELL, Colusa, Calif. Spencer Mitchell watched closely to the goings-on at last year’s Timed Event Championship. Mitchell was inside the Lazy E as a helper, the teammate in team roping for the bright stars in this game. This year, he’s taking a turn at riding in the championship himself. Mitchell, a header by trade, […]
Timed Event Championship: Erich Rogers
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of 20 biographies I will publish for this year’s Timed Event Championship, set for March 1-3 at the Lazy E Arena. The remaining 19 bios will be published over the next couple of weeks leading up to this year’s championship; this is how they will appear in the souvenir […]
McEntire-Eaton to host Cowboy Church
GUTHRIE, Okla. – Susie McEntire-Eaton will host Cowboy Church in conjunction with the 2013 Timed Event Championship at the Lazy E Arena. McEntire-Eaton will perform with her husband, Mark Eaton, during the service, set for 9 a.m. Sunday, March 3, inside the arena. McEntire-Eaton, a country Christian artist, is well known for her spiritual and […]
Fat Tuesday reveals a hunger for rodeo
There are a number of ways to describe today: Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras Day, Shrove Tuesday and, for those from southwest Kansas, International Pancake Day. The latter comes from the annual event in which women race down the street flipping pancakes. It began more than 500 years ago in Olney, England, but in 1950, the […]
Millions served
The Super Bowl is sports’ biggest spectacle, and it has been that way for decades. Now in its 47th year, it proves each winter why the NFL is the biggest sports commodity in the land. But the Super Bowl reaches well beyond sports fanatics. Millions watch just for the halftime show, while millions more watch […]
Timed Event Championship Hosts Top Stars
The Biggest Names in Professional Rodeo Ready for This Year’s ‘Ironman’ Competition The Lazy E Arena has been a showcase of rodeo’s greatest stars for nearly three decades. The arena – which the late Clem McSpadden dubbed the Taj Mahal of the rodeo business – just gets better with age, and the 2013 Timed Event […]
Saying another goodbye
EDITOR’S NOTE: This morning, I had the honor of speaking at the funeral of Jacob Marriott, a young cowboy who died last week just a couple weeks shy of his 27th birthday. I didn’t know Jake, but because of his mother, Dee, I knew his heart. Dee asked me to be part of this amazing […]
Rodeo book reveals a few problems
I love rodeo stories. I especially love good rodeo stories, so I enjoy the times when I’m able to read a book about the sport. My wife found a copy of Biting the Dust; The Wild and Dark Romance of the Rodeo Cowboy and the American West, authored by Dirk Johnson. It was published in […]
Dreams really do come true
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final story I wrote in 2012. It has been published in the January edition of Women’s Pro Rodeo News, the official publication of the WPRA. During the 2012 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, I wrote the nightly WPRA.com updates from Las Vegas, so I visited with Mary Walker several times over […]
Rodeo’s change is proof of positives
CLAREMORE, Okla. – Change is often the most difficult thing to accomplish. Sometimes, though, it’s the most important thing to accomplish. That was the consensus of the volunteers who produce the Will Rogers Stampede, which will conduct its 67th edition of Claremore’s rodeo at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 24-Sunday, May 26. “Our biggest move this […]
Carr animals showcased at circuit finals
WACO, Texas – Dirty Jacket has been considered one of the greatest bareback horses in the world. Now he’s been honored as the best bucking horse in the Lone Star State, recognized at such Jan. 3-5 during the Ram Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo at the Extraco Events Center in Waco, Texas. The 9-year-old bay gelding […]
Happy new year
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted, but the ol’ brainbox needed a breather. Now that it’s been recharged, it’s time to get back at it. Work has begun on several jobs already, and I’m so very blessed by these tremendous opportunities. We’re hot and heavy with the new year, and my first writing […]