A spur-of-the-moment decision to wear a helmet may have saved bull rider Willy Ives' life last August. He borrowed a friend's helmet on a whim. While riding in the competition, Ives was bucked off ...

Rodeo athletes are injured or die at higher rates than athletes from any other sport. The bull riding injury rate is over 10 ...

Professional Bull Riding was meant for TikTok fame. It’s short, intense, and impossible to look away. A rider adorned in thick gloves, a protective vest, and a helmet hops onto a bull from the ...

The Freedom will host their matches in the PBR league at Amerant Bank Arena, home of the newly crowned Stanley Cup champion ...

The bull always wins the ride. It’s quite difficult to stay atop the bucking mammal, so in the sport of bull riding, all the judges ask is for participants to remain on the animal for at least eight ...

In bull riding, that's how long athletes strive to stay on the bucking animal. It may seem short, ... Concussions are also a concern, and PBR started requiring helmets in 2013, ...

Professional Bull Riding was meant for TikTok fame.. It’s short, intense, and impossible to look away. A rider adorned in thick gloves, a protective vest, and a helmet hops onto a bull from the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Kasey Hayes hopped on the bovine beast trapped in the narrow holding pen like he’d done hundreds of times. He adjusted a tight rope on his ...

J.B. Mauney conquered the toughest bulls in the world. As he prepares to enter the Bull Riding Hall of Fame, he reflects on the injury that made him hang it up.

Bull riding is considered one of the most dangerous sports in the ... In 2013, the PBR made helmets mandatory to protect against concussions. The sport requires its riders to be flexible, agile ...

Wyoming bull rider Dylan Grant, 24, died after he was thrown off a bull during an event in Texas and stepped on. He had been riding since 2018.

There, wearing a helmet and mouthpiece, she made adjustments in the chute to the rope circling her bull. She threw her hips forward. Then came the nod — go time.