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Huckleberry Thorn doesn’t roll over or sit up and beg for treats. He doesn’t fetch tennis balls from the pool. He’s not all that big on rubber toys. He doesn’t stand around for 15 minutes waiting for the lighting to be just right while posing for photos.
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First things first. The cell phone voice mail. It is one of those standard messages by a woman who sounds like a librarian reciting rules about talking in your quiet voice. I was expecting some background tunes of “Abilene.” Maybe some “Happy Trails.”
Five years ago, Stran Smith wasn’t too worried about calf roping. He was more concerned about simply staying alive.
World champion rodeo athletes aren’t given bonus checks for winning their prestigious titles.
If Randon Adams wasn’t a team roper, he might be able to make a living handling dynamite, nitroglycerine or a surgeon’s scalpel.
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Rookie Tuf Cooper, 18, won Friday’s calf roping go-round with a time of 6.7 seconds, the quickest of the National Finals Rodeo.
Members of the rodeo community helped select the 10 most memorable events of the past 49 National Finals Rodeos.
About 400 exhibitors are camped out through Saturday in the Las Vegas Convention Center for Cowboy Christmas, the official gift show of the National Finals Rodeo.
A calculator will come in handy during the last two nights of the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Lindsay Sears can saddle up her horse, Martha, tonight and ride all out — not that she seems to know any other way to ride.
