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The Animal wins cutting horse Summer Spectacular

Decatur cowboy Trevor Brazile, shown competing in December 2015, tied tied for first in tie-down roping with a time of 7.3 seconds at the K-Days Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, July 20-22.

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Weatherford cowboy, 17, rides experience to title at NCHA youth competition

Lance Cooper, 17, of Weatherford clinched the senior division title (ages 14-18) on a horse named Fancy Rey at the National Youth Cutting Horse Association’s Summer Scholarship Cutting at Will Rogers Coliseum.

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Deal to reopen Fort Worth Cats’ LaGrave Field full of dreams, but is there money?

A land swap is giving the Save LaGrave Foundation a chance to restore the abandoned Panther Island ballpark as a sports-events complex. But the foundation needs to raise $4 million to close the deal with the Tarrant Regional Water District and the stadium’s Houston-based owner.

Matt Miller, competing at the NCHA Futurity in December 2013, advanced to the final round on three horses at the Metallic Cat National Cutting Horse Association Summer Spectacular’s 5- and 6-year-old open division.

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Riding plenty of confidence, Poolville man advances to NCHA final round on 3 horses

Poolville rider/trainer Matt Miller advanced to the final round on three horses at the National Cutting Horse Association Summer Spectacular’s 5- and 6-year-old open division at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum.

FILE - In this July 9, 2016, file photo, Brock Lesnar, top, fights Mark Hunt during their heavyweight mixed martial arts bout at UFC 200 in Las Vegas. Jon Jones has threatened to show up at WWE’s SummerSlam event and scout potential rival Lesnar. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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Dana White confirms Brock Lesnar will make UFC comeback soon

The UFC says Brock Lesnar is coming back to mixed martial arts next year to fight new heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier.

Decatur cowboy Trevor Brazile, competing in 2009, captured the team roping heading and steer roping titles at the Windy Ryon Memorial Roping, Sunday, May 27, 2018.

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Trevor Brazile doubles his fun at Windy Ryon Memorial Roping event

Decatur, Texas, cowboy Trevor Brazile wins the team roping heading and steer roping titles at the Windy Ryon Memorial Roping, May 27, 2018.

Hunter Herrin competes in the calf roping event at the Windy Ryon Memorial Roping Saturday May 23, 2009, in this file photo.

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'It’s like a hometown rodeo for me.' Ponder product enjoys success at 45th Ryon Roping

Timber Moore grew up in Ponder, a small Denton County community that’s less than a half hour from the renowned Windy Ryon Memorial Roping. Moore has great memories of attending the Windy Ryon, which traditionally is conducted during the Memorial Day Weekend in north Fort Worth. Today, he’s from Aubrey, another small Denton County town, and he’s one of the world’s top ropers.

My Boy Jack, who finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby, will not run in the Belmont Stakes next month, making the path to a Triple Crown a little smoother for Justify, winner of the Derby and Preakness.

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Odds of Triple Crown winner increase with Fort Worth horse out of Belmont

The owner of My Boy Jack, one of the pre-race Kentucky Derby favorites, said his horse will not run in the Belmont, the last leg of racing's Triple Crown.

Hadley Miller, in action at the North Texas High School Association kickoff rodeo in August, won the all-around title Sunday in the NTHSRA finals for the second consecutive year. He also claimed single event titles in tie-down roping and bull riding.

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Focus, hard work help Alvarado junior clinch girls high school rodeo title

Alvarado junior Brittne Thomas clinched the North Texas High School Rodeo Association’s girls’ all-around title, May 20, 2018. In the boys all-around race, Hadley Miller, a Boyd junior, clinched the title for the second consecutive year.

Orlando Carrillo Maffei graduated with a master's degree in construction management from UT Arlington this past weekend. Maffei fought off a kidnapping attempt from Venezuelan guerrillas in his hometown of San Cristobal, Venezuela, when he was 22 years old that left him paralyzed.

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Paralyzed fighting guerrillas in Venezuela, he graduated a star student-athlete at UTA

Orlando Carrillo Maffei survived a kidnapping attempt by a guerrilla organization in Venezuela in 2006 that left him paralyzed. He overcame obstacles put in front of him to earn his master's of construction management from the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also played on the wheelchair basketball team.

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‘This is stupid!’ Cornhole event turns sour as brawl breaks out

A fundraising event at Foxhall Resort in Douglas County, Georgia, went disastrously wrong when its cornhole tournament led to a brawl among participants.

Apprentice Jockey will make debut on Opening Day at Lone Star Park

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Are we looking at the greatest Triple Crown run ever? Preakness next for Justify

Justify won the Kentucky Derby by 2 1/2 lengths. The Preakness Stakes is next.

My Boy Jack finished fifth in Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Former TCU second baseman Kirk Godby is part of a group that owns My Boy Jack.

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An ex TCU baseball player misses at the Kentucky Derby but wins anyway

A former TCU baseball player worked his way up from nothing now has his own horse stables based in Fort Worth that had the fifth-place finisher at the Kentucky Derby.

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2018 Kentucky Derby facts and Lone Star Park schedule

The 2018 Kentucky Derby will be held Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa set the Guinnes Book of World Records for riding the tallest wave off the coast of Nazare, Portugal.

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Watch Brazilian surfer break the Guinness World Record by riding an 80-foot wave

Over the weekend, surfer Rodrigo Koxa was honored at the Big Wave Awards for successfully riding the tallest wave in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Stephenville cowboy Kobie Wood, riding Cool N Hot, scores a 227 to win the National Cutting Horse Association Super Stakes open division championship on Sunday at Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth.

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Stephenville cowboy captures NCHA Super Stakes title aboard 'rock solid' stallion

Kobie Wood, a former world champion from Stephenville, captured the National Cutting Horse Association Super Stakes championship aboard 4-year-old stallion Cool N Hot, Sunday, April 22, 2018.

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Weatherford man advances to division finals at Cutting Horse Super Stakes

At the National Cutting Horse Association Super Stakes, Phil Rapp of Weatherford advanced to this weekend’s 4-year-old open division finals after turning in a remarkable semifinal round score of 221.5 aboard a horse he had never ridden before the Super Stakes began.

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