Brett Nierengarten

Editor in Chief, The Cowboy Channel
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Wednesday night produced a thrilling Gold Medal Round at the site of the 2034 Olympics
California’s highest paying rodeo finishes with Sunday’s Finals
It’s the most wonderful time of the rodeo calendar
The summer’s highest paying rodeo begins July 5
The Wildest, Richest Rodeo in the West felt like just that in 2024
The winning ways of JR Stratford, Keenan Hayes, Rocker Steiner, Josh Frost, and Maverick Smith continued last weekend
Buddy Hawkins is hot on Lord’s trail, sitting roughly $700 behind him in the No. 2 spot
The PRCA Playoff Series was back in Oklahoma for the second time in as many months
This Oregon rodeo served as one of the final PRCA Playoff Series Rodeos before 100 Rodeos in 100 Days
Rocker Steiner, Sage Newman and Jake Clay/Douglas Rich were some of the big winners
The Darby Xtreme Bareback Riding and the Casey Tibbs Match of Champions brought big scores and paydays
There were eight rodeos and one bronc match over the weekend and things were a bit quieter than normal before the Summer Run.
The richest PRCA rodeo in Oklahoma came through with some of the best tie-down roping and bareback riding we’ve seen all year
A pair of bareback riders found themselves in a familiar spot in the Oklahoma panhandle
Yeahquo has never made the NFR, but now he sits on top of the World after the Texas Swing
The PRCA Playoff Series takes a break in Oklahoma before heading back to California later on this month
The five rodeos that make up the Texas Swing shape the rodeo season
A Top 25 paying regular season rodeo lead to some big moves out in California
The third annual Resistol Rookie Roundup gave young cowboys and cowgirls a chance for their share of $100,000
The final rodeo of the Texas Swing paid almost $800,000 in 2024 with the inclusion of breakaway roping
The Texas Swing came to an end, but what happened in California was just as interesting
Playoff Rodeos in Texas and Nevada were a major part of the narrative this past weekend
The San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo and Oregon’s High Desert Stampede were the biggest rodeos of the weekend
The holiday weekend made for one of the quietest weeks on the calendar in ProRodeo
The fourth Texas Swing event had an increased payout a new timed event format in 2024
Rodeo Austin marked the fourth Texas Swing rodeo to be completed and many of its headlines came from rodeo’s classic events
The regular season’s only $2 million rodeo produced several new No. 1s, who are likely there to stay for awhile
The highest paying rodeo of the Texas Swing doled out more than $2 million in 19 days