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Guns N' Roses' former drummer Steven Adler, as heard on their hit single Sweet Child O'Mine, never forgot the first time he smoked crack cocaine. It was the spring of [...]

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This article provides an exclusive extract from a book about Fleetwood Mac, focusing on the late guitarist and songwriter Bob Welch. The article discusses Welch's role in keeping the band together and his influence on their sound. It also mentions his interactions with Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler and his struggles with drug addiction. Welch's background, musical career, and contributions to Fleetwood Mac are explored, as well as his solo work and legal battles with the band. The article concludes with Welch's tragic death and reflections from Mick Fleetwood on his legacy. [Extracted from the article]

As the route celebrates its 150th anniversary, editor Bob Welch looks at some of the men and circumstances who shaped this most famous of cattle trails. The Chisholm Trail looms [...]

For success in the professional team roping arena these days, ropers have to have things squared away. Roping ability, team chemistry and horse power are usually dialed in to the [...]

FOR THE FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW, SPIN TO WIN RODEO MAGAZINE IS AWARDING ITS FANS' FAVORITE AWARDS, 'THE SPINNIES.' AS IN THE PAST. WE'VE TABULATED THE TEAM ROPING GENERAL [...]

THE PRIEFERT WORLD SERIES OF TEAM ROPING FINALE XI BOASTED HUGE NUMBERS, SERVING ONLY TO CEMENT ITS STATUS AS THE BEST TEAM ROPING NOT ONLY IN THE LAND, BUT IN [...]

Last year was a record year at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Earnings records were set in every event but barrel racing. Five of the nine gold buckles awarded in [...]

I'VE HEARD life's a highway. But lately it's felt a little more like a cul-de-sac. Just over 19 years ago, I graduated from college. Within weeks, fresh parchment proving the [...]

NOT LONG AGO, I felt I'd hit a wall in my 5-year-old gelding's (shown above) training progression. He's always been a pretty solid soldier. I've asked him to work long [...]

There were only two weeks during the entire 2016 regular season that Coleman Proctor was ranked among the top 15 headers in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Weather Guard World [...]

HORSE IS MY CO-PILOT Making your horse the best player on your team. I want a horse that's real honest and runs through my delivery, then lets me slow him [...]

In August, Jamaican sprinter and fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, flabbergasted his fans and his competition in the Olympic 100 meters finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when [...]

Call it a sense of urgency. Erich Rogers and Cory Petska-Wrangler National Finals Rodeo mainstays--found themselves in the unenviable position of being ranked outside the top 50 in the world [...]

AS MUCH AS I wish I could, I can't seem to shake my stubborn streak of cowboy pride. Sometimes it manifests itself in a positive way--doing a job right or [...]

The College National Finals Rodeo--and a National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association title--are underrated. There's little question that the men and women who compete in Casper, Wyo., every June are not only [...]

One of the most important parts of heeling is understanding what you're looking at and what you're throwing at. The sooner you can understand where your target is, the sooner [...]

As technology marches forward, farms become more efficient and more and more young people move to town, seeking a brighter future than the farm could afford. But as editor Bob [...]

The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo was a bellwether. It was the first major Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association-sanctioned event where the new bylaw (B1.2.1.2) excluding 'any person applying for [...]

Every horse is different and that's what is so unique about roping and the horsemanship part of it. To become a good horseman, you have to know what the horse [...]

With Rey [two-time and reigning PRCA/AQHA Heel Horse of the Year], I just ran into a stroke of luck. Every horse out there works differently-and there are a lot of [...]

THE NEXT FIVE STEPS: HANDLING Editor's Note: In August of 2014, we covered Charly Crawford's first five steps to a team roping run. Now, we'll look at the next five. [...]

RODEO VS. JACKPOT POSITION There's two different ways to ride position. One is up and around the steer, and that's for a faster, rodeo-style shot. Then there's staying to the [...]

For years, the work professional rodeo cowboys and cowgirls did during the regular season mattered just as much as what they did at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las [...]

PATIENCE IN THE CORNER Something that I try to work on-and a problem I see in novice ropers-is not getting in a hurry when the head rope goes on. Novice [...]

Junior Nogueira is living his dream. The roping world is unfolding before him. After coming to the United States from Brazil, in just one year, he's won Rookie of the [...]

ROPE POSITION GOING INTO THE CORNER These photos are shot at different angles, but the concept of your rope's position as you're going into the corner is the same. If [...]

After four years of historic drought conditions, eastern Colorado recovered--at least for the time being--with the wettest May on record, Editor-in-Chief Bob Welch visited with one group of ranchers in [...]

Johnny Johnson hails from the Appalachian region--in Tennessee where Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina all collide. He brings moonshine to his ropings--JX2 Productions--to pass out to friends and sponsors. It's [...]

'A bird in hand is worth two-in (he bush' the-saying goes. But when a learn roper is hunting a California Rodeo Salinas buckle, he might just give up whatever he's [...]

Finding the next great horse is a perpetual challenge for the top professional ropers. Wrangler National Finals Rodeo heeler Shay Carroll is always looking for the one that hasn't quite [...]

Professional team roping is more grind than glamour. For every moment in the winner's circle, there are years of practice, miles of highway and thousands of dollars. The payoff for [...]

In the three-head average that is the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo format in Denver, brothers Riley and Brady Minor only roped one of those three steers to their [...]

Editor's Note: Now in our seventh year attempting to pick the PRCA world champions in each event, sadly we must admit that we're not getting any better at it. Last [...]

DECEMBER 14, 2013: WORLD STANDINGS PLACE: 2; EARNINGS: $203,567 Cody Ohl was on a roll at the 2013 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Coming in to Round 9, he won three [...]

I SUPPOSE IT'S implicit of the human condition to dream. When suffering from writer's block (often) or a lack of motivation (also, often), I find myself indulging my dreams a [...]

LAST YEAR, AT our annual county fair, my family and I watched the beef show. As my children's friends and acquaintances jockeyed their steers around the arena, my son declared [...]

I SPENT THE past 20 years or so as a magazine editor, observing and writing about horsemanship, rodeo, and cowboy culture. When that phase ended, I decided that rather than [...]

WE TROTTED OUT from the chuck wagon on a warm, clear morning to gather pairs for a branding session at my dad's ranch. Nobody's horse bucked, and the day was [...]

IT SEEMS MANY of us--myself notwithstanding--go through life trying to find our place. Career paths and family goals that once seemed so clear in the starry-eyed optimism of youth and [...]

In the years following the Civil War, pioneers, freed slaves, and Longhorns flooded Texas. Entrepreneurial cattlemen responded to the demand for beef back East and put herds of free-ranging wild [...]

This horse, Ironman, I've had for two or three years now. He's working really good, but after I'd rope, he'd want to be aggressive at the horn and move around [...]

* PROGNOSTICATING THE WRANGLER NATIONAL FINALS RODEO presented by Polaris Ranger gets more difficult every year. There is so much money up for grabs--$10 million--that no lead is safe. We've [...]

In 2005, the entire agricultural community in Southeast Colorado faced losing their ranches to an aggressive land grab by the U.S. Army. By combining biological evidence, cultural heritage, intense document [...]

For a week in June, Reno, Nev., is the center of the team roping universe. Between the Bob Feist Invitational for the pros, the Reno Rodeo Invitational for the amateurs [...]

Everybody, when they rope the dummy, has a certain spot that they get to on the ground that's comfortable for them. They have a certain loop size and a certain [...]