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  • Canadian bronc rider wins gold buckle in tight NFR finale

    Ron Kantowski Las Vegas Review-Journal, Syndicated content|Updated Dec 13, 2022

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- There are tens of thousands of bucking bronc and bull rides in a professional rodeo season. The 2022 saddle bronc championship wasn’t decided until the last one. When Saturday’s 10th and final round of the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center began, Sage Newman, Lefty Holman, Stetson Wright and Zeke Thurston were separated by $5,600 — which, over the long haul of the season, is akin to the change one finds between sofa cushions during a spring cleaning. Thurston won the gold buckle by ridin...