The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR), the season-ending championship of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), has been a December fixture in Vegas since 1985. Benny “the Cowboy” Binion, a founding father of Vegas and ProRodeo Hall of Famer, was instrumental in luring NFR from its longtime home in Oklahoma City, along with Las Vegas Events, a private, not-for-profit arm of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) focused on special events.
Interest in the game of lacrosse had been revived, reported the News Letter during this week in 1932, with the announcement that the Irish Ladies’ International team was to play against a team representing England in Belfast on April 1, 1921, at the North of Ireland Cricket Ground.
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