Eight seconds of glory

Count with me. Eight, seven, six, keep it up, five, four, three, don’t let go, two, one. Sure eight seconds might feel like a blip in time for most, but for the Southwestern warriors of the rodeo, eight seconds is an eternity. Go ahead and ask any rodeo cowboy how they got into this life,…

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Behind the Tucson Rodeo

  The grounds are empty. Empty stadium seats, open parking lots and steer pens with nothing around but silence in the air, except for one man overlooking the rodeo racetrack. This man is José Calderon. It’s his second year presiding over the Tucson Rodeo. Saturday marks its 93rd year. Calderon is the chairman of the…

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From the horns of the bull [With ASNS Video]

[ASNS Video, production by Isaac Cox] The tough cowboys and bull riders from the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, also known as the Tucson Rodeo, are nursing their aches and bruises now that the rodeo is over. For the bull riders, trying to spend eight seconds atop a snarling 1,700-pound bucking bull that can leap five…

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