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Haynes: Bullfighter shares testimony to help lead rodeo athletes down right path
Mike Haynes
With a classroom full of college students surrounding him, finishing up their loaded baked potatoes and pieces of cake, Frank Newsom pored over a thick Bible in front of him, his felt hat tipped slightly down toward the white plastic table, a tanned, crooked finger carefully tracing verses that he planned to cite in a few minutes.
It wasn’t the first time the brown leather-covered book had been open to this spot; the adjacent page was torn from use.
Newsom had given his testimony many times in the past decade or so, including about once a year to the cowboys and cowgirls in this Clarendon College rodeo and ranch horse programs. But the 46-year-old had driven four hours from his home near Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, on a recent Tuesday night and wanted to be sure to get it right.