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National Finals Rodeo
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Almost every world championship race in the 10-day National Finals Rodeo is too close to call after Thursday’s eighth go-round.
Bull rider Tyler Smith didn’t enjoy the first six nights of the National Finals Rodeo, when he was bucked off five times and failed to earn a check the only time he completed an eight-second ride.
The four essential elements necessary to sustain a western-themed life, according to a browsing of the Cowboy Christmas Gift Show in town this week as part of the big rodeo shindig, are as follows: driftwood, turquoise, leather and antlers. Among these, leather is king.
Activities more rugged than Christmas shopping usually are associated with the National Finals Rodeo. But cowboys enjoy saving a buck as much as shooting one.
The National Finals Rodeo isn’t a beauty pageant. Contestants aren’t smiling for cameras; they do whatever it takes to win a lot of money and gold buckles representing world championships.
If you see Billy Etbauer today, just call him “Timex.”
Some living near UNLV don’t relish sharing neighborhood with animals.
Kaycee Feild never got to see his father, Lewis Feild, win the first of his three bareback world championships. He missed the second one, too, and certainly doesn’t remember much about the third.
Trevor Brazile needed little more than half of the Nationals Finals Rodeo to clinch his sixth all-around world championship in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
