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 ...

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 HOT Fair and Rodeo brings racing, roping and riding to the heart of Texas this month, but for several Central Texas women, these events are year-round passions. Rodeo events such as tie-down ...

Cowboy Christmas is always a special time of year, but even more so for the women who are competing in the breakaway roping. They have been clawing for the opportunity to compete at professional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNION — Martha Angelone and Amanda Hodges remember just a few years ago competing at breakaway roping in amateur rodeos in Texas. They never imagined at the time they’d be competing halfway across the ...

For nearly two decades, Brady and Riley Minor have been a consistent contender in PRCA team roping, and it’s a partnership that shows no signs of fading. Team ropers Brady and Riley Minor finished ...

Tameka Baptiste recalls Double Dutch jump roping as a small girl growing up in a Black community in Brooklyn. For her, it was “something that brought joy.” Wanting to recreate that experience now that ...