Bull Rider Tyler Smith of Fruita, Colo. wins Round 8 at the WNFR



Only two bull riders survived the Round-8 pen – Tyler Smith and Brennon Eldred. Smith took the victory lap with an 89-point ride on Wayne Vold Rodeo’s Cooper’s Comet – the same bull Roscoe Jarboe won Round 2 on. “I got to see video of what he did with Roscoe, and if you weren’t expecting him to reverse it (his […]

Dustin Bird of Cut Bank, Mont. and Team Roping partner Russell Cardoza win Round 8 at the WNFR



Bird and Cardoza stopped the clock with the fastest team roping time of the 2016 WNFR, a blistering 3.7-second run. They both trail Brown and Long by less than $15,000, making the team roping race tight as can be coming down to the wire. “We knew he was a good steer, and that if we did our jobs we’d have […]