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The bull always wins the ride. It’s quite difficult to stay atop the bucking mammal, so in the sport of bull riding, all the judges ask is for participants to remain on the animal for at least eight ...

Some sports are a lot more dangerous than others. Bull riding has ten times the injury rate of football, according to a report by the Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society. Rodeos can also ...

Suresh was one of 15 bull riders who came from Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and as far as Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York, to compete in a professional rodeo show at the Montgomery ...