When Clay Tryan and his horse backed into the box back in 2000, he was a young man just starting his professional rodeo career. He was roping with his father, Dennis, at the annual MontanaFair Rodeo ...

In Las Vegas Saturday night championships will be handed out. A couple of stories we haven’t talked about but certainly worth mentioning in the sport of bull riding are the bucking shoots. Oklahoma ...

Last December, Clay Tryan texted Travis Graves a simple message. “Do you want to win a world title?” Now they're 10 rounds away from the coveted gold buckle. Tryan and Graves enter the National Finals ...

LAS VEGAS – Clay Tryan of Billings, Mont., and Michael Jones of Stephenville, Texas, broke the Thomas & Mack Center team-roping record with a 3.7-second run in the seventh round of the National Finals ...

LAS VEGAS – Billings team roper Clay Tryan is closing in on another world championship. The great header and his partner, Jade Corkill, placed sixth Friday night as the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo ...

Team ropers Clay Tryan of Billings, Mont., and Michael Jones of Stephenville, Texas, barely missed the arena record Wednesday en route to winning Round 6 at the 46th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

Clay Tryan has caught almost every possible title available in team roping. The Billings cowboy is a three-time world champion, a two-time winner of the average at the National Finals Rodeo and has ...

BILLINGS — Clay Tryan missed a few steers this year. And he also caught a few steers. High risk-high reward is the nature of his chosen business. In team roping, it's be fast or go home. But when ...

Tryan's early experiences with team roping were very different, and much earlier in life. Tryan and his younger brother, Travis, grew up watching their mother, Terri Kaye Kirkland, compete in barrel ...