Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Behind the Chutes: Last Cowboy Standing
A few hours before the final day of the Last Cowboy
Standing, nine-time World Champion Ty Murray asked
Silvano Alves if he was going to win the $100,000
event. Alves smiled and shook his head yes. He did more than win the Last Cowboy Standing, on Saturday
night, in Las Vegas. In the minds of many he solidified himself as
the odds-on favorite to win an unprecedented third consecutive
world title when the season concludes back in Vegas this coming
October. One would be hard-pressed to convince Murray otherwise and the
next morning, fellow PBR co-founder Cody Lambert
said the 25-year-old Brazilian is the best professional bull rider
in the world. Two former World Champions - Michael Gaffney
and Justin McBride - agreed. "He was the best bull rider again tonight," said McBride, "and
that ride on Smackdown that was a really good ride. For a
right-handed guy that bull is no day off. Gaffney added, "That's the first time a right-handed guy has
ridden that bull."...more
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