ProRodeo Sports News - February 2, 2024

BY THE NUMBERS 11 The number of bull riding NFR round wins by reigning five-time PRCA All-Around World Champion Stetson Wright. The record in bull riding for round wins is 18 by ProRodeo Hall of Famer Ted Nuce. For the record, Wright also has five NFR saddle bronc riding round victories. $5K The amount of money at the Rodeo Rapid City (S.D.) Xtreme Broncs Match on Jan. 27. $16K The amount of money ($16,003) earned by bull rider T Parker during ($5,232) earned by saddle bronc rider Brody Wells during his winning performance his championship performance at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver. The rodeo concluded Jan. 21 at the Denver Coliseum.

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Welcome to the NFR Tamron Hall is an American broadcast journalist, TV talk show host and author. In September 2019, Hall debuted her self-titled syndicated daytime talk show, which has earned her two Daytime Emmy Awards. Hall was in Las Vegas as part of her talk show and spent some time one day at the 2023 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge. In this video, she learns about team roping from NFR header Coleman Proctor and then spends time in the Thomas & Mack Center on the arena dirt with the flag girls of the NFR. – Tracy Renck

Tuffy Thompson passes at 90

Roy Glenn Thompson, better known as “Tuffy,” who won PRCA Steer Roping World Championships in 1973 and 1975, passed away Jan. 26, in Happy, Texas. He was 90. Thompson competed at the National Finals Steer Roping seven times – 1972-73, 1975-77, 1981 and 1983. He won three career rounds at the NFSR – one each in 1973, 1975 and 1976. Thompson placed in 13 career rounds at the NFSR.

help you he would do. If you needed anything he was more than happy to let you have it. He was a great guy.” Thompson, the third of six children, was born on March 22, 1933, to Orin and Hazel Thompson in Miami, Texas. Growing up in a ranching family in Stinnett, Texas, started his love of horses and roping. In 1951, Thompson claimed the NHSRA All-Around Cowboy title

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along with the calf roping and steer wrestling titles. He became a member of the PRCA in calf roping and steer roping in 1955. Thompson also competed in the Senior Steer Roping Association. Thompson is preceded in death by his parents, and his brothers Orin, Bob, and Marshall Thompson. He is survived by his two children, Roy Dee Thompson and Jobeth White and his grandchildren and great grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to the Happy Fire Department, PO Box 216, Happy, Texas, 79042, the Happy Community Center, PO Box 392, Happy, Texas, 79042, or to the Happy Rodeo Club, PO Box 458, Happy, Texas, 79042.

In 1973, Thompson won the Steer Roping World Championship by a mere $122.51 over John Miller, which was the narrowest margin of a championship in the event since Clark McEntire edged Joe Snively by $94 in 1961. Thompson also was the Lone Star (Texas) Circuit steer roping champ in 1976. Thompson was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2013. “Tuffy was a very, very talented steer roper,” said ProRodeo Hall of Fame steer roper Guy Allen to the ProRodeo Sports News . “He was just a really good athlete and a really great guy. Everybody liked Tuffy. Whatever he could do to

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