PRORODEO Sports News March 2026 Digital Edition

SHORT ROUND

50 The total number of years Bob Tallman was the voice of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. Tallman, a legendary voice in PRORODEO, will take on a new role in Fort Worth next season.

7.6 The total time on two head for steer wrestler Garrett Oates to win the Dixie National Rodeo championship in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 21. Oates had identical 3.8-second runs in rounds 1 and 2 to win the title.

91.5 The score Resistol Rookie bull rider Braxton Whitesell was awarded after his ride on 5 Star Rodeo’s Bucknasty to win the Brighton Field Days Festival Xtreme Bulls Feb. 22 in Okeechobee Fla., a Rank 45 Xtreme Bulls Series event.

PRCA MOURNS PASSING OF OAKLYNN RAE DOMER The Rodeo world was shaken when it learned of the passing of 2024 WPRA World Champion Breakaway Roper Kelsie Domer and her husband Ryan’s toddler daughter on Feb. 19. Oaklynn Rae Domer was 3. The funeral service for Oaklynn took place Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Double N Cowboy Church in Dublin, Texas. The service was live streamed on the Double N Cowboy Facebook page.

The graveside service took place Friday, Feb. 27 at the Auburn Cemetery in Cherokee, Okla.

Donations for family expenses and scholarships in Oaklynn’s memory for rodeo athletes at Southwestern Oklahoma State University or Northwestern Okla homa State University may be made to Rope Like A Girl. Mail donations to: First Financial Bank, Attention Rope Like a Girl Foundation, 718 Elm Street, Clyde,

Texas 79510. Account ending #3030. Please make checks payable to Rope Like a Girl Foundation. Donations are tax deductible.

2026 PLAYOFF SERIES (BASED ON 2025 TOTAL PAYOUTS)

RodeoHouston has the highest payout in 2026. (PRCA photo by Mallory Beinborn)

RANK

CITY

ST TX TX TX WY OR NV TX CO

RODEO NAME

TOTAL PAYOUT

1

HOUSTON

RodeoHouston

$2,533,500 $1,685,833 $1,415,875 $1,334,201 $850,301 $846,090 $778,298 $757,157

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

SAN ANTONIO FORT WORTH CHEYENNE PENDLETON

San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo

Cheyenne Frontier Days Pendleton Round-Up

RENO

Reno Rodeo

SAN ANGELO

San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo

DENVER

National Western Stock Show and Rodeo

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