ProRodeo Sports News - November 17, 1999

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will be a private reception at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame for the inductees. For ticket information and prices for the reception and ban- quet, call the museum at (254) 756- 1633 or (800) 567-9561.

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RODBO REUNION: The 1999 Rodeo Cowboy Al:rmni get-together will be Dec. 9-ll, at the Holiday Inn Boardwalk Casino on the Las Vegas "Strip." Registration will be Thursday, Dec. 9, in the Alumni Hospitality Suite . The registration fee is $50 per person) which will include three days of the hospitality room, breakfast and a dance. All profits from the reunion. will go to the Lane Frost Memorial Scholarship Fund. So far the Rodeo Cowboy Alumni have conuibuted $36,000 to the Lane Frost Memorial Scholarship Fund. For those who don't want to attend all the events, individual tickets for either the throe days of the hospi- tality room, brealcfr.st on Friday morning, or dance on Friday night can be purchased for $10. According to Rodeo Cowboy' Alumni's ]ohn Ha-Jey for the last four years the Rodeo Cowboy Alumni have helped bring breakfast to Western Wishes children. For more information, please con- tact Hadey at P. O. 8ox2455, Corrales, NI,I, 87048 or call (505) 898-3694. BEAVERJOINS TELECAST: Joe Beaver, I5-tin:e National Finals Rodeo qualifier and five-time world calf roping champion; will leave his ropes and horses home this year, ven- turing up from the roping box to the EFTIICr\IP

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BAD LUCIC Vince Gambino, the leader of the bull riding standings heading into the First Frontier Circuit Finals in Binghamton, N.Y., had some bad luck strike at the wrong time. Gambino,23 of Pedricktown, N.|., lost an eye during the Glen Falls, N.Y., Rodeo recendy, keeping him out of the Circuit Finals. He was still in attendance, however, according to circuit coordinator Betsy Harris. Another bull rider, Frank Gugliotti of Prospect, Conn., had several bones in one side of his face broken during the same rodeo, including three in his eye socket alone. The 29-year-old just missed quali- fying for the circuit finals, but Harris said a benefit auction for both men was held after the post-rodeo dance each night. Despite the injuries, Harris said the Circuit Finals was successfirl, as the mayor of Binghamton declared the week before the start of the Finals as Rodeo Week. Payoffs for the rodeo hit record highs as well. Notes are cornpiled. &lPSN staffwriter Dain Jobnston.

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season earnings record \i\trth $297,896 and is second on the all-time career earnings list. |oining Murray as 1999 Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductees are: Tour de France winner I:nce Armsuong; NFL's third all-time lead- ing rusher Eric Dickerson; perennial all-star David Robinson of the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs; Texas Tech Women's Basketball Coach Marsha Sh"tp; MINBA All-Star Sheryl Swoops; leg- endary NFL official Red Cashion; and ]im Hall, who managed Team Chapparral to a pair of Indianapolis 500 victories in 1978 and 1980. Prior to the induction banquet at the Waco Convention Center, there

announcer's booth. Beavcr will join ESPN's Wrangler World of Rodeo team in its telecast of the 1999 NFR Dec. 3-12, aftzr being sidelined much of tlre season with a torn abductor tendon in his pelvis. DIURRAY HONORED: Seven- time World All-Around Champion Ty Mu:ray will be inducted into the Texrs Sports Hall of Fame on ]an. ll, 2000. Murrag from Stephenville, Texas, won six straight all-around champi- onships (1989-1994) and last year riabbed a PRCA-record seventh all- around tide. Murray holds the single- IEI=GIT'NE

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