Word: rodeos
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...Everybody seems upset at Vick for mistreating dogs, yet where's the outcry over jockeys who beat horses as they race them to exhaustion, rodeo riders who torture calves and bulls, and sled-dog drivers who run their dogs for hours through freezing weather? Jerry Sturdivant, Las Vegas...
Everybody seems upset at Vick for mistreating dogs, yet where's the outcry over jockeys who beat horses as they race them to exhaustion, rodeo riders who torture calves and bulls, and sled-dog drivers who run their dogs for hours through freezing weather? Jerry Sturdivant, LAS VEGAS...
FANS ARGUED ABOUT IT: WAS he better at bull riding or bareback riding--or just the greatest rough-stock rider ever? One thing was not in dispute: Hall of Famer Jim Shoulders, the "Babe Ruth of rodeo cowboys," had an unusual tolerance for pain. Among the bones he broke while riding to a record 16 world championships in the 1940s and '50s: both arms (twice), his collarbone (three times) and 27 bones in his face. After breaking a hand during a ride, he switched to the other one and won. His celebrity expanded in the early '80s when he sparred...
Eight days after 31 Wyoming Republicans filed their names to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, an orthopedic surgeon and former rodeo physician has emerged as the newest U.S. Senator. Gov. Dave Freudenthal announced earlier today that Dr. John Barrasso will assume the Senate seat of the late Senator Craig Thomas, who died of leukemia on June...
...these critics may be underestimating his strengths. As with Hillary Clinton, this is not his first rodeo (a phrase that rolls smoothly in his accent). Like Barack Obama, he is poised and compelling. Like Rudy Giuliani, he can fall back on bold self-confidence in the face of tricky questions. Like John McCain, he can appeal to independents. And like George W. Bush in 2000, he presents a decided equanimity toward his future. As he told an interviewer, "One advantage you have in not having this as [a] lifelong ambition is that if it turns out that your calculation...