Everyone loves tough guys in ten-gallon hats and juicy hot dogs snuggled inside hunks of deep-fried cornbread. But even 2,200-pound Brahma bulls think clowns are creepy. So head to this weekend’s 61st ...

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 ...

There are plenty of laughs, but being a rodeo clown is no joke. Not to Dusty Meyers. For more than two decades, Meyers has worked as a … ahem … professional rodeo clown, donning grease paint and ...

Randee Munns is a 75-year-old rodeo clown who’s still going strong. Over the decades, he’s frequented rodeo arenas, dodging bulls and protecting riders while keeping the crowd entertained. Along the ...

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.

Rodeo clown and barrelman John Harrison’s wife, Carla Harrison, likes to tell him that he should never doubt the love between them is real. It’s definitely not superficial, anyway. “Little girls don’t ...

GERRY — Rodeo kid … teenage bull rider … college student … schoolteacher … bull fighter …rodeo clown. That’s the unusual resume of rodeo clown and barrel man Rob Gann, who is headed to the 80th annual ...

Wade Tuni drew a bull by the name of “One Chance” one night in January in Rapid City, S.D. The pair shot out of the chute gate flailing, with Tuni’s left arm flying high. Far from shying away from the ...