No trip to NRG Stadium for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is complete without watching the mutton bustin' competition. Up late on a school night, 15 tiny tykes hit the stadium dirt atop a sheep ...

SILVERTHORNE ” As two grown men restrained an exceptionally woolly sheep, the eager Sebastian Boch, equipped with a protective mask and vest, was hoisted on top. Seconds later, the 5-year-old was ...

During the final weekend of the National Western Stock Show, January 21 and 22, the underbelly of the Denver Coliseum was a mirage of leather and rhinestones. The musk of livestock and hay held in the ...

Pain is temporary. Glory is forever. Especially in Mutton Bustin’. Just ask 4-year-old Kennedi Sullivan. The little girl from San Antonio got the high score during the competition at the San Antonio ...

GRIDLEY — Hold on to your muttons, and hold them tight. Cowboy and cowgirl trainees held on for dear life Saturday for a classic Mutton Bustin’ during the Bulls and Broncs rodeo, hosted by Rockin M ...

Mutton buster CJ George walks around the rodeo arena in his great-great-grandfather's hat before riding at the Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo on Thursday, July 19, 2018. Before climbing on his sheep, George ...

Jul. 15—Cooper McCarty of Mounds showed a lot of grit at Friday's mutton busting competition at Muskogee's Party Like it's 1776 celebration. You can see it all over his face and teeth. Mutton busting ...

Sep. 8—A pair of mutton-busting brothers who competed at the Lewiston Roundup on Thursday night have royal bloodlines in the rodeo world. The Scott boys are the great-great grandsons of the late Paul ...

Mutton buster Garrit Morton has twice fallen from sheep and had his hand trampled once. But ahead of his third ride, the sportsman is undeterred. "I just like to ride things," Garrit, a second-grader ...

Eight-year-old Turner Barlow of New Waterford — shown above and at the left — is another $20 richer after winning the mutton busting contest at the county fair for the second year in a row. Barlow won ...

Once you’ve been strapped to the back of a stampeding sheep, a job interview probably pales in comparison. Tommy G. Giodone thinks there’s no better way to prepare your kid for real life than to take ...

While British prudey-pants party poopers continue to push their petition to ban mutton bustin’ at the National Western Stock Show, we’re surprised they don’t have their knickers in a twist over an ...