ProRodeo Sports News - Dec. 21, 2018

YEAR IN REVIEW JANUARY 2018

PRCA WORLD STANDINGS LEADERS AS OF JAN. 25, 2018 Bareback riding Jake Brown $20,952 Steer wrestling Curtis Cassidy $19,081 Team roping (header) Clay Smith $25,941 Team roping (heeler) Paul Eaves $25,941 Saddle bronc riding Jacobs Crawley $23,131 Tie-down roping Marcos Costa $29,393 Steer roping Trevor Brazile $15,268 Bull riding Sage Kimzey $29,470

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Lane Nobles’ 179 points on two head nets him the average at the SWELS – Xtreme Bulls

in Fort Worth, Texas, earning more than

$16,000. James Phifer photo

ProRodeo Hall of Famer Will Plaugher passes away at 95. Plaugher was both a cowboy and a clown. He was the all-around champion in 1946. That same year he filled in as a bullfighter at a rodeo 5

and went on to become a rodeo clown. He was PRCA Clown of the Year in 1982, at age 60.

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The PRCA tabs George Taylor to be the new chief executive officer to helm the direction of

the organization. Taylor was formerly an executive with Caterpillar in the Marketing & Digital Division. Steer wrestler Colin Wolfe , of Wenatchee, Wash., shows off his versatility by winning the Cowboy Downhill skiing competition in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Saddle bronc rider Zeke Thurston overcomes travel issues to win the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver to take home $10,934. 15 21

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Bull rider Chase Dougherty rakes in $8,262 at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver. Greg Westfall photo

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