The Score from The Team Roping Journal

Luke Brown and Trey Yates won the 2025 National Western Stock Show and Rodeo win Jan. 26, after a 4.2-second run in the short round to pocket $11,718 a man. For Yates, three-time NFR heeler and 2018 NFR champion, the win was an emotional one.Yates joins The Short Score to talk about the emotion behind the win, his partnership with 14-time NFR head

We're back with our eighth year of The Score Podcast from The Team Roping Journal, and we're kicking it off with a bang with Coleman Proctor and a recap of his dramatic 10th round of the 2024 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in a raw conversation that only Coleman can provide. Proctor missed his Round 10 steer to lose the 2024 PRCA Heading and All Around World Championships, and Proc

The Gold Buckle Futurities Fall Roping crowned its champions Nov. 14-17, 2024, in Abilene, Texas, and The Short Scoreis wrapping up 2024 highlighting a few of their winners.Rhen Richard won the 6 & Under Heading on SJR Diamond Bond for $11,000. They picked up another $19,000 for first in the Elite Stallion Incentive, and the 6-year-old won ano

Ace Ashford’s death in August of 2024 shook the team roping and rodeo communities to their cores. The 18-year-old young gun, and younger brother to NFR heeler Ross, was known by everyone as a kind, humble and overall good person.But even in death God's hand is present. In this episode of The Short Score, Hill Rodeo Cattle’s Bobby Joe Hill—a longtime friend

Clint Summers and Jake Long took home the 2024 NFR team roping average title Dec. 14, in Round 10.Summers and Long came in second in the average, and their 4.0-second run sealed the deal with a 44.3 on nine head. They picked up fourth in the round for $14,126.88 apiece and $86,391.31 a man for the aggregate title. They join The Short Score to talk about the

Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp defended their 2023 world titles, winning the 2024 PRCA team roping world championship with $361,480.Wade and Thorp sealed the deal on their consecutive gold buckles after winning second in Round 10 with a 3.8-second run for $26,623.74 a man. The newly-crowned world champs join The Short Score to talk about their world titles.__Designed ar

Coleman Proctor and Logan Medlin are back in the winner's circle after Round 9, this time with gold buckles on the line.Proctor and Medlin won Round 9 of the 2024 NFR with a 3.8-second run for $33,687.18 a man. Proctor now sits second in the world and Medlin third. After Round 9, the projected world standings have Proctor the world champion header and Medlin the worl

The end of the 2024 NFR is in sight as Round 8 wrapped with the 2021 and 2022 world champions keeping themselves alive in the world championship race.Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira entered Round 8 needing to win the round to stay in the conversation, and they did just that, winning the round with a 3.4 for $33,687.18 a man. They now sit second in the world standi

Coleman Proctor and Logan Medlin wrapped Round 7 of the 2024 NFR in a bow as the last team out. Proctor and Medlin took the win in Round 7 with a 3.5-second run for $33,687.18 a man, keeping Proctor alive in the race for the all-around gold buckle.Proctor and Medlin catch up with The Short Score to talk about their run and their careers.__ This episode is p

Round 6 of the team roping at the 2024 NFR saw the fastest time of the Finals thus far. Brenten Hall and Kaden Profili took home the Round 6 win with a 3.5-second run for $33,687.18 a man. For Hall, the round win is his first since the 2020 NFR, but it's Profili's first at his breakout Finals. Hall and Profili join The Short Score to break down their run.__