Clay O’Brien Cooper is old enough to be the father of many of his team roping peers. Yet Father Time still hasn’t caught up to the 52-year-old, who is competing in his 27th National Finals Rodeo, his 23rd at the Thomas &Mack Center.
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Defending champion Tuf Cooper came into the National Finals Rodeo with a big lead in tie-down roping, but he’s being challenged by five-time world champ Cody Ohl, all-around champ Trevor Brazile, Shane Hanchey and Scott Kourmos. Cooper is trying to become the first tie-down roper to win three straight world titles since his father, rodeo Hall of Famer Roy Cooper, won five in a row from 1980 to 1984.
For just a second, it was just like old times. In the front room of the Havana Cigar Co., a small group of us were arguing politics, predicting the outcome of future races and solving the world’s problems as tendrils of steel-colored smoke rose toward the ceiling and dark wine swirled in glasses.
It would be easy to view Urijah Faber’s fight against Michael McDonald as a classic matchup of the grizzled veteran who has seen it all trying to hold off the hard-charging, young up-and-comer hoping to follow his path.
For three quarters Thursday, Bishop Gorman’s girls basketball team got by without a true point guard.
Clark County’s crowded elementary schools already use 1,282 portable classrooms, but new state standards are forcing the district to request $13.5 million from the state so it can add hundreds more.