The Team Roping Journal

GOD’S TIME

Kaleb Driggers stood in the back of the Thomas & Mack press room—situated next to the alley where the team ropers line up to ride into the box—watching Round 10 unfold on the big-screen televisions in the front of the room.

The zip-zip of Driggers’ rope buzzed over the tap-tap-tap of the reporters’ keyboards, and, like he’s done every Round 10 for the last few years, Driggers assessed his chances at a gold buckle as team after team rode into the box.

Three teams into the round, Andrew Ward and Buddy Hawkins clinched the NFR average title and broke Jake Barnes and Clay O’Brien Cooper’s average record, and Driggers smiled with cautious excitement.

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