I'm glad I was wrong about this.

Two weeks ago, I expressed doubts that Kody Lostroh would win the Professional Bull Riders 2009 world title because I was not so sure his health would hold up during the World Finals. During the latter part the season, he appeared to have been slowed by elbow and shoulder injuries.

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Five years ago, the Professional Bull Riders World Finals took a giant leap.

In 2004, organizers opted to change the amount of points that a contestant potentially could earn during the Las Vegas championships from 1,500 to 6,500.

I was one columnist who pushed for that type of change, because this is the World Series of bull riding. It's the bull riding equivalent of the NFL playoffs, and the World Finals needed to carry a lot more weight.

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Hey there everybody.

I was glad to hear everyone liked our CBS special this past weekend. I've been getting things in order here at the ranch before I head out to Las Vegas later this week.

I'll hold back some of my thoughts in hopes that you'll log onto the site and listen to my "Final Word" podcast that I'll be recording every day.

Take care, and I'll post my first Podcast from the Finals on Friday.

Time to play the game of prediction again.

If you could pocket $1 million for picking the World Champion as we head into the Professional Bull Riders World Finals, who would rank No. 1?

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The wreck involving Ryan Dirteater was horrible.

But what's starting to become a problem is that more and more guys are getting their spurs hung up in their bull ropes.

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Hello cowboy nation.

I was looking over some interesting stats this morning and it looks to me like the health of the talent pool in the PBR is really good.

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Hello again everyone.

We had an interesting weekend in Portland. As a fan, when things start coming down to the wire it gets exciting to watch and you even see the riders start to understand more and more what's at stake as the season starts to wind down.

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Hey everyone!

I'm looking forward to this weekend. I'll be in the television booth this weekend at the GoDaddy.com Invitational in Portland. I haven't been in the booth for a while, so I'm looking forward to it.

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This time of the year, one big issue among bull riders is money.

That's because the Professional Bull Riders traditionally determines its World Finals qualifiers on the basis of prize money.

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Hello everyone.

It looks like Springfield made the "Road to Vegas" all that much more interesting for all of us who are watching.

Looking at the battle we have going between Guilherme Marchi, J.B. Mauney and Kody Lostroh, it's really a test between them and sometimes, I think, we forget how great Marchi is and what a great year he's having simply because of who he is.

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