The guitar that Jackie “JJ” Hampton won at last year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s Super Series 1 sits displayed in her real estate office. “It is one of the coolest things I have ever won, I ...

ST. PAUL, Ore. (KATU) — History is being made this year at the St. Paul Rodeo. For the first ever, women's "breakaway roping" will be one of the events featured. KATU News spoke with one of the ...

Melody Hale has been coming to the St. Paul Rodeo for decades. Despite being a competitive roper with 30 years of experience, her trips from her home in Tenino, Washington, to the big rodeo in the ...

Jackie Crawford of Stephenville competes in break-away roping during the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Wyoming in July. Crawford is able to compete in Cheyenne and other high-profile rodeos since ...

ODESSA, Texas — The Sandhills Stock Show and Rodeo features all different types of rodeo events. There is bareback riding, bull riding and steer wrestling to name a few. But, no event in rodeo is ...

Martha Angelone looks around at competitors up to double her age and always has the same thought: Why weren't they allowed earlier? The sport of breakaway roping was added within the last two years to ...

The lineup at National Finals Rodeo is getting more Western-themed spinoffs than cable network execs looking to fill prime time with new iterations of beloved series. A case in point: the Wrangler ...

Kiera French started roping steers four years ago in Virginia. When she moved to Texas in 2002, she found it difficult to break into Houston roping organizations or even to find a place to practice.

The Shane Hanchey Invitational concluded yesterday in Giddings, Texas. Let’s look at what happened and who walked away victorious. This invitational had a star-studded line-up. With 60 contestants, ...

While the War Bonnet Round Up may be Idaho’s Oldest Rodeo, this year it will feature one of the newest up-and-coming events in the rodeo world: Women’s Breakaway Roping. It is similar to men’s ...