Fort Worth rodeo showcases top bucking stock for 81st Southwestern Exposition
The World's Original Indoor Rodeo at the 81st Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show runs Jan 28 to Feb 6 in Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum. Mike Cervi Championship Rodeo Company supplies stock from Sterling Colorado with Cervi as the world’s largest stock contractor. Cervi will subcontract with other producers to meet Fort Worth Rodeo demand, including over 250 bucking horses and 150 bucking bulls plus roping calves dogging steers and 50 wild mustangs for the Wild Horse Race, with 500 cowboys expected in five major events.
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Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum
Mike Cervi
Sterling, Colo
Cervi
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Australia
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Beutler Bros
Cervi Rodeo Livestock Company
Billy Minick
Cedavi
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Oklahoma City
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
Far Worth
ROCOM
PRCA
Colorado
Crestline Drive
Rodeo
P.O. Box
Tex
WHA
West Texas coyotes and bobcats drive fur boom in Texas
Rodger Meedown reports a fur market surge in West Texas driven by high coyote and bobcat pelts. Prices vary by size and quality with typical bobcat pelts bringing 60 to 110 dollars and coyotes up to 30 dollars for prime hides. Trapping licenses rise as demand recovers.
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Trans-Pecos
United States
Louisiana
el Paso
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Rio Grande
Turner buys Hawks after baseball suspension
Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner purchases more than 50 percent of the NBA Atlanta Hawks and names Mike Storen as president and GM. Storen, a former ABA executive, replaces Bud Seretean on the Hawks board, while Tom Cousins remains. Turner faces NBA and baseball sanctions tied to Matthews and Matthews signing.
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Tom Saladino
Atlanta
Atlanta Braves
Ted Turner
Turner
Bowie Kuhn
Gary Matthews
National Basketball Association
Atlanta Hawks
American Basketball Association
Mike Storen
Hawks
Charlotte
N C
NBA
Larry O'Brien
Storen
ABA
Indiana Pacers
Kentucky Colonels
Bud Seretean
Tom Cousins
St. Louis
Cousins
Serejean
Kuhn
Braves
Matthews
Chub Feeney
Florida bass promise good luck at Amistad
Florida bass from Amistad Lake boosted stocking results as two larger specimens of 4.2 and 3.1 pounds were recovered, among nine Florida largemouths found during a late November TPW evaluation. The five year program aims to produce Texas Florida hybrids for faster growth with the first spawn expected this spring.
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Amistad
Amistad Lake
Texas Parks and Wildlife Fisheries
Ronnie Stapleton
West
Texas
Stapleton
Border Lake
Judge rules feuds irrelevant in Finley suit over Kuhn power
U S district judge Frank J McGarr says the central issue is whether Commissioner Kuhn had authority to void three star player sales by Charles Finley to the A s for 3 5 million The judge says personal animosity or feud has no bearing on the case and testimony continues The outcome hinges on the legal scope of Kuhn s power to void the June deals including Joe Rudi Rollie Fingers and Vida Blue
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Bowie Kuhn
Oakland A
Charles Finley
Kuhn
Frank J. McGarr
U.S. District Court
Finley
McGarr
Peter Bleakley
Joe Rudi
Rollie Fingers
Vida Blue
Bleakley
Neil Papiano
Speed Reading Course Offered in Pecos
United States Reading Lab offers a speed reading course in Pecos with potential to read 1000 words per minute and improved comprehension. Free one hour orientation lectures run January 6 to January 12 at the Community Center Executive Conference Room with multiple 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. sessions. Classes fill on a first come basis. group rates available upon request.
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Pecos
ADV
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