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Sosebee finds hi= s fun in the arena

ADA, Okla. – Entertainment is the name of the game for the inaugural Cord McCoy Invitational presented by Cooper Tires.

When the PBR Enterprise Ren= t-A-Car Tour/PBF Daisy Protection Bullfight Tour hits town May 29-30, Cody Sosebee plans to keep it that way.

Sosebee is the barrelman &#= 8211; the rodeo clown who keeps audiences in stitches throughout both performance= s at the Pontotoc County Agri-Plex.

“I try to bring with = my show just a little bit of a good-time feeling, fun time,” said Sosebee, 37= , of Charleston, Ark. “At this day and time, it c= osts a lot for people to come to an event. When they come to performance for two hours, I want them to sit back and really enjoy the show.”

Sosebee comes from a rodeo = family: His father rode bucking horses and bulls and was a pickup man, and his moth= er was a barrel racer who also served as a rodeo secretary. Sosebee began his = own career riding bareback horses.

“I want to give every= body that comes to the rodeo a good show,” he said. “I don’t l= imit myself to a certain crowd. I want to entertain anyone from 8 to 98. I think it’s easy for comedians to be funny at a nightclub when it’s 21= and older, but at a rodeo, you’ve got to be funny to everybody.

“I try to bring fresh= stuff. We’ll have people who know a lot about rodeo, and we’ll have a = lot of people who have never been to a rodeo before. I want to bring them a complete package of comedy.”

The Cord McCoy Invitational presented by Cooper Tires is another big stop for Sosebee, who has performe= d at the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days, the Calgary Stampede, the ProRodeo Tour Playoffs in Omaha, = Neb., and some other prestigious rodeos, Fort Smith, Ark.; = Colorado Springs, Colo.;= St. Paul, Ore.; Guymon, Okla.; and Ellensburg, Wash., to name a few.

The Cord McCoy Invitational= will be part of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, and money won in Ada will count toward qualification to the PBR’s World Finals, which take place each fall in Las Vegas. The top 45 cowboys on the money list at the end of the regular season quali= fy for the year-end championship, and McCoy has played on the PBR’s bigg= est stage each of the last three years.

In addition to the Cord McC= oy Invitational featuring the best bull riders in the sport, the event will al= so feature the top cowboys in the Professional Bullfighters Daisy Protection Bullfight Tour, a competition that focuses on the basics of good protection bullfighting.

Tickets will be on sale thi= s week. The Pontotoc County Agri-Plex will seat about 5,000 fans, so it will be imperative for those interested in seeing some of the greatest cowboys batt= ling the toughest bulls in the business to get their tickets in advance.

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