ProRodeo Sports News - April 28, 2023

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Greeley Stampede names entertainment for rodeo

BY THE NUMBERS $5 The amount of money

The Greeley (Colo.) Stampede already brings a lot of entertainment to Greeley with the SuperStars+ Concert Series, PRCA ProRodeo Series, the Kids Korral and the CIVITAS Park Stage to name a few. For the 2023 event, the Stampede is adding even more entertainment with a mini music festival featuring Red Dirt country music. “The Red Dirt Day is going to be a lot of fun featuring some very talented up and coming artists in one of country music’s most popular genres,” commented Cory Sample, Greeley Stampede Music Production Chairman. “The best part, all of the music for Red Dirt Day is on the Civitas Park Stage which means it is all included with park admission!” That’s right, Red Dirt Day on July 2, is included with park admission like all concerts on the CIVITAS Park Stage which gives you over five hours of amazing music for just $5. Or plan on

coming down for the Heritage of Mexico Rodeo that day for $15-25 per ticket that also includes park admission and enjoy the Red Dirt music after. Either way is a win! Here’s the Red Dirt Day on Civitas Park stage lineup on July 2. All times are Mountain. Kylie Frey 5:00 p.m. Tyler Halverson 6:15 p.m. Wyatt Flores 7:30 p.m. Kody West 8:45 p.m. Tanner Usrey 10:00 p.m. The Greeley Stampede is still adding more music to the CIVITAS Park Stage! Visit greeleystampede.org/p/parkstage for the current list to start planning your trip to the 2023 Greeley Stampede. Tickets for arena events are available online at greeleystampede.org. All arena event ticket prices increase June 15.

saddle bronc rider Bobby Berger of Lexington, Okla., beat Tom Miller of Faith, S.D. by to win the 1979 PRCA Saddle Bronc Riding World Championship. The final earnings were $41,708 for Berger and $41,703 for Miller. It was the second smallest margin to win a PRCA World Championship behind only steer roper Scott Snedecor defeating legendary Guy Allen by $1.67 to claim the 2005 PRCA Steer Roping World Championship. 100 The number of points earned by bull rider Wade Leslie on Growney’s Wolfman in 1991 in Central Point, Ore., which is the ProRodeo world record score for the event. 2001 The year Rope Myers won his only steer wrestling world title at the 2001 National Finals Rodeo, as he set the record for the 10-head average (37.4 seconds), NFR earnings ($117,774) and season earnings ($176,854).

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Award-winning specialty act performer Bobby Kerr entertains the crowd at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Rodeo, which concluded April 23. Red Bluff Welcome

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