HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The makeup, the funny costume and hat -- you wouldn't think there's any danger in being a clown, but in the rodeo there's no funny business for the men and women who suit up ...

As a bullfighter, to stand there and not move when you know you’re going to take a hit for a guy, that’s the hardest part,” ...

It's an hour before showtime and Rob Gann is running late. He has to get his makeup on, climb into his costume, and build a flash-bang firework that will provide the big noisy finish for his act.

SILOAM SPRINGS -- New this year to the Siloam Springs Rodeo is contract act Allan Dessel of Paulina, Iowa. Not to be confused with a bullfighter, Dessel is a barrelman, he said. Barrelmen and ...

John Harrison has “the best job in rodeo,” he says. It doesn’t matter that one of his responsibilities as a barrelman is to distract bulls in the arena. His most valued duty? That’s “putting a smile ...