The point I want to make is that there are two ways that Valdiron, Lostroh and Mike Lee can catch up: they can just dominate the last six events and Marchi struggle or get hurt.

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This weekend started out like any other. You show up and everybody starts out with the same score, zero. You have the mindset that you're there to win, but by the short round rolled there were 30 guys who had lost all sight of that and another 15 that were still holding on to the little gleam of hope that they might still walk out of the arena as the champion.

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I know, I know, this whole blog thing was supposed to be every week. But when you live somewhere that only has four months of really great weather, it's hard to sit down in the office and type at the computer.

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In the old days of bull riding and pro rodeo, it was commendable to ride, ride, ride. It was standard for a cowboy to enter a small rodeo and one of the largest rodeos in the country back-to-back. One weekend, he might be climbing aboard a snorting bull for lower wages at the smaller but very popular weekly Mesquite Championship Rodeo in Texas. But the next weekend, he's strapping on his spurs for a big check at the renowned Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming.

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As far as this year's concerned it's pretty much crunch time for the guys that are looking to win the rookie of the year, for the guys who are looking to win the world championship and for the guys who are just looking to qualify for the PBR World Finals this year.

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Bull rider Matt Austin has been making the news on the Professional Bull Riders circuits as he attempts to move back into the spotlight.

But his success is coming after dealing with a series of nagging injuries.

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Ty Murray finally tied the knot.

The 38-year-old seven-time world all-around champion wed pop star Jewel Kilcher during a private ceremony in the Bahamas on Aug. 7.

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The past couple of months are probably the worst two months I've had as far as my bull riding goes. Not just from getting bucked off, but not winning any money either.

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When I was a kid I used to love watching reruns of old "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." episodes. I always got a kick out of hearing him say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise..."

Ironically, surprises have never been a part of my life and as an adult I've actually learned to expect the unexpected.

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When Clayton Williams earned $215,000 last year at a major Professional Bull Riders event in Oklahoma City, the victory catapulted the Carthage, Texas, cowboy onto the association's Built Ford Tough Series.

It also secured Williams a spot at the 2007 World Finals in Las Vegas, and it made all of the difference in his claiming the PBR's Daisy Rookie of the Year title.

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