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The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world. It includes one of the richest regular-season professional rodeo events. It has been held at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, since 2003, with the exception of 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic .
Oklahoma Outlaw Prison Rodeo the largest "Behind The Walls" rodeo in the world and only PRCA-sanctioned prison rodeo in McAlester "Ride for the Brand" Ranch Rodeo fundraiser ranch rodeo for Oklahoma State University Rodeo team, one of the oldest NIRA sanctioned rodeo clubs in Oklahoma, held in Stillwater the first Saturday every October.
The ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run is a point-to-point 10K race and 5K fun run/walk that has been a Houston, Texas tradition since 1988. Runners and walkers lead the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) Parade past thousands of spectators in downtown Houston. Race entry fees benefit the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund.
The rodeo is held three weeks in March, each year. During this time NRG Stadium also hosts an event on the Xtreme Bulls tour, the bull riding-only tour that is part of the PRCA, who also hosts the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The stadium includes a service area level to house rodeo livestock. The bulls, broncs, steers and roping calves are ...
For several years, a PRCA Xtreme Bulls event called Bulls' Night Out was held as part of the rodeo. However, beginning in 2025, the all-bull riding event at the rodeo will now be the PBR's Last Cowboy Standing event. On March 20, 2021, boxing hosted Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs Maurice Hooker. Ortiz Jr won by 7th round TKO to win the WBO International ...
Kevin Cahoon was born on July 21, 1971, in Houston, Texas. [1] [2] [3] Cahoon began his performing career at the age of six as 'The World's Youngest Rodeo Clown', [4] performing throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Rodeo Circuits, including many consecutive seasons at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Texas State High School Finals Rodeo, resulting in a Letter of Citation from then ...
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo continued to be held at the Astrodome until the opening of the adjacent NRG Stadium in 2002 (which coincided with the debut of the Houston Texans, the team that replaced the Oilers). Although the Astrodome no longer had any primary tenants, it regularly hosted events during the early 2000s.
This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.