Rodeos
PBR Enhances Leadership Structure
The Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) on Tuesday announced three important changes to its senior leadership structure.
First, Jeffrey Pollack has been elected to the PBR Board of Directors as Executive Chairman and will immediately take an active role in leading the PBR board and senior management team into a new phase of global competition, brand and business growth.
Most recently, Pollack was President and Commissioner of the World Series of Poker. Under his leadership since 2005, the WSOP was fundamentally reinvented as a business, transformed into a worldwide sports and entertainment phenomenon, and crossed the $1 billion mark in total prize money awarded.
Jun 21, 2010, 12:01
Rodeos
Casper, Wyoming Kicks Off Its 11th Annual College National Finals Rodeo
Casper, Wyoming will be kicking off the summer with the College National Finals Rodeo June 14th-20th, 2009. This event, which is in its 61st year and celebrating its 11th year of being hosted in Casper, is the “Rose Bowl” of college rodeo. During this exciting event, the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association crowns individual event champions in saddle bronc riding, bare back riding, bull riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping, barrel racing, breakaway roping, and goat tying.
Feb 11, 2009, 12:22
Rodeos
PRCA launches innovative Heartland ProRodeo Series in October
In its relentless efforts to grow the cowboy sport and increase prize money for contestants, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association is launching an ambitious new enterprise with the start of the 2008 season in October – the Heartland ProRodeo Series.
The concept offers added support to the majority of PRCA rodeos, those with a total added committee purse of up to $30,000, by bringing them together in a series that concludes with a rich and prestigious championship event. The Heartland ProRodeo Series Championships in Waco, Texas, scheduled for Oct. 3-11, 2008, will have minimum prize money of $400,000 and as much as $500,000.
Aug 7, 2008, 09:31
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