WomenTalkSports.com is an online network that connects the very best blogs relating to women's sports. http://womentalksports.com/profiles/view/103 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:03:49 -0400Nov. 15 – The WPRA (Womens Professional Rodeo Association) Finals just concluded in Tulsa. The top women ropers competed for world titles. These gals can really handle a rope!  Jackie Hobbs of Abilene, Tx, won the coveted All-Around Cowgirl title as well as the tie-down roping crown. I had the honor to participate in a new pro-am competition Saturday night. Four teams made up of a pro roper, a youth champion roper, a youth champion barrel racer, and a pro barrel racer competed for bragging rights. Our team drew the lead-off position. So J’Nae Mullen (Okla High School Rodeo) ran barrels first and had a nice run of 16.42. Then I ran and put our team in a hole when I knocked down the first barrel, 21.17. The second team of Simone Dockers (Okla Kansas Youth Rodeo) and Lisa Novak had tough luck when Simone's horse went down and  Lisa's horse slipped real bad. Liz Pinkston and her partner, Keely Jo Weger (Okla Youth Rodeo) posted outstand...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/103/82883Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:35:30 -0500Goose and I took the New Mexico tour - El Paso, Albuquerque and Amarillo.  It is very clear that the two of us need more runs as our timing wasn't very good. It is easy to think that once you are at a certain level of competition, that you can just pick up there and go on after a break; but that isn't true, especially after injuries. The new season begins Oct. 1 and we have a lot of work to do. Amigo and I have an "extra step" issue that we are diligently working on. He started it last fall after he was off for his surgery, and I kept thinking that he'd finally work out of it with more runs, but not so.  Now that my leg is doing better, I am working with him to lose that step. It has cost us a lot of money this year. In my line of work, pro barrel racing, a tenth of a second costs you several places in the payoff. Many times, a couple  of  hundreths have cost me three or four placings. The payoff, of course, decreases the farther down you place. In reality, only the...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/103/64915Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:17:56 -0400Aug. 15 – Sorry it has been so long since I have given you an update. To be honest, this summer has been tough, and I was getting weary and a little down. You can ride when you are hurt, but you don’t ride well. That takes a toll on a person, at least it did me. Thank God, I won enough to pay the bills but I didn’t come close to the goals I had set for the summer. It is always tough being away from my family, but with Brodie going to college this fall, it was even tougher. I was getting discouraged and I needed to go home and rest and let my leg heal. I do not like to pass negativity on, so I chose not to give you any updates. Instead, I am home recharging my spirit.  In Isaiah 40:31, it says, “Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.”It is never fun going through tough times, but we have to learn to wait on the Lord. I am lear...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/103/51792Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:33:36 -0400Cowboy Christmas is over, and, well, the week didn't go the way I had hoped. During our second run at Reno (6/23) the first barrel flipped up and caught under my foot, twisting it back and to the outside. I thought it was just sprained really bad, but x-rays showed a break in the long thin bone that runs down my leg just above where it attaches to the ankle. I have a stylish black walking cast that velcros on and off that I am supposed to wear for 6 weeks. Jeanne (Anderson) has been taking care of my horses and exercising them for me. She is such a great friend. Gut check time. I didn't have to run again until Monday at Greeley. So after lots of icing and rest, Saturday I decided to try the air cast the doctor gave me that goes inside a boot. It was REAL apparent REAL fast that it wasn't going to work.  I got scared and called home for Marty to come get me. But it was going to be almost three weeks before he could come to Cheyenne and drive me, my rig and hor...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/103/34088Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:43:01 -0400Another chapter in the "So you think you want to be a Rodeo Cowgirl" saga... Last night we were at Gladewater, TX, right in the heart of the severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings.  It was hot, and the clouds starting coming in from the north and west. Just as we (the barrel racers) were heading towards the arena to get ready, we heard the announcer say that the National Weather Service had just issued a severe thunderstorm warning for--you guessed it--Gladewater. We were right in the path of a bad storm with 50-60 miles an hour winds, torrential rains, and lots of lightning (which we were already eyeing watchfully). He suggested that the fans go home and take cover because the storm would be here very soon. He also said proudly 'that rodeos were never canceled, that we are tough athletes, and rodeoed no matter what.' (Speak for yourself!) That lightning was making me really nervous, but I thought, 'they are the ones up there in that metal crow's nest,...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/103/31177Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:51:45 -0400