PBR heads to Glendale, Arizona, March 13-14!
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Sara Broun Public Relations Coordinator 719.242.2800, ext. office
sbroun@pbr.com
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Glendale, Ariz. (March 10, 2010)
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The Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) heads back west, stopping in Glendale, Ariz., for the Glendale Invitational, the eleventh stop on the elite 2010 Built Ford Tough Series. The Top 40 bull riders in the world will invade jobing.com Arena on Saturday, March 13, at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 14, at 2:00 p.m. for two thrilling nights of world-class bull riding. The event will showcase the world’s best riders going head-to-head with the top bulls the PBR has to offer!
Tickets are on sale now for as little as $10, and can be purchased online at Ticketmaster.com, in person at the jobing.com Arena box office, or by calling 480-784-4444. Fans will get to witness firsthand the heart-pounding, bone-crushing action of The Toughest Sport on Earth, with over 2 hours packed full of thrills and spills, pyrotechnics, and rock & roll music.
Expected to compete in Glendale are current world leader J.B. Mauney (Mooresville, N.C.); 2010 Iron Cowboy and current No. 2 in the world Valdiron de Oliveira (Aparecida de Goiania, GO, Brazil); USA World Cup team member Austin Meier (Kinta, Okla.); PBR fan favorites McKennon Wimberly (Cool, Texas), Skeeter Kingsolver (Mclouth, Kans.), Jody Newberry (Ada, Okla.), and Ryan McConnel (Colgate, Okla.); and current No. 3 in the world, Travis Briscoe (Edgewood, N.M.).
The Glendale Invitational will consist of three rounds of competition, with the first two rounds featuring the Top 40 bull riders matched against the PBR’s rankest bulls. The scores from the two rides will be combined and the riders with the top 15 scores will advance to the Built Ford Tough Championship Round after intermission on Sunday. In the end, the cowboy with the highest total score on three bulls will be declared the winner!
The PBR is the premiere bull riding organization in the world, boasting contestants from the United States, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, and Canada. One of the fastest growing sports in the country, the PBR’s events air weekly on VERSUS, NBC, CBS, and FOX. For more information on the Professional Bull Riders, please visit www.pbr.com or contact Sara Broun at 719 242 2800 or sbroun@pbrnow.com.
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About the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR):
More than 100 million viewers tune in each year to the PBR on FOX, NBC, VERSUS and on a host of foreign networks across the globe. With approximately 400 hours of prime time programming annually, PBR ranks among the most prolific sports on air. It attracts over one-and-a-half million live event attendees each year with its two-tiered event structure, which includes the marquee Built Ford Tough Series and the lower-level Touring Pro Division. The PBR is headquartered in Pueblo, Colo., and has over 1,200 PBR bull riders who compete in more than 300 PBR sanctioned competitions in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico.
For more on the PBR, please visit www.pbr.com, www.teampbr.com, www.pbr.tv, www.myspace.com/teampbr, twitter.com/teampbr, www.facebook.com/TeamPBR, or www.pbr.com/worldfinals/.
