ProRodeo Sports News February 16, 2024

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6 Editor’s Letter 8 Grille 12 Social Media 16 World Standings 18 Short Round

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22 Fort Worth, Texas

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Ferrell Butler photo The 1969 Rodeo Cowboys Association World Champions – precursor to the PRCA – were back row, steer wrestler Roy Duvall, bareback rider Gary Tucker, saddle bronc rider Bill Smith, tie-down roper Dean Oliver, front row, all around cowboy Larry Mahan, team roper Jerold Camarillo, and bull rider Doug Brown. Remembering 1969 champions World champions made their mark at the Astrodome in 1969. Of that year’s RCA World Champions, pictured above, Duvall, Smith and Brown – as the all around cowboy – won in Houston in March of ’69. Read more about that rodeo 45 years ago in the editor’s letter in this edition of the ProRodeo Sports News . 6

Lightning Strikes Twice

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Steiner goes back-to-back in Fort Worth

Bareback rider Rocker Steiner gave his winter run a jolt by winning the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo for the second-consecutive year. Steiner walked away after earning a rodeo-best $28,000.

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