Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming events to mark your calendar for. Yep, bull riding is a sport. And not just because it has a regular season or a macho-sounding sponsor or even because riders accrue stats that could be listed on the back of a trading card. No, I think it's a sport mainly because judges award riders points based on degree of difficulty and form, making it sort of like … ice skating. With dirt. And cowboys. And really, really angry animals.
Now that I've sold you on its bona fides, you can see the raging bulls live and in person as the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. stampede the
This article appears in Jan 20-26, 2010.