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A beater is an inexpensive car in a state of disrepair that is acceptable to the driver, if not state standards.emission
a refitting. I saw it a couple of times on the road afterwards, new steel side panels attached with visible bolts.My current beater came off the line in 2003, shortly before my youngest child was born. And it’s the best damn beater I’ve ever owned. It has no backup camera, no onboard GPS. The Bluetooth won’t connect with my phone so I have to use an aux cable to listen to my audiobooks, though it does have a banging stereo system, with a rear-mounted subwoofer that can make the whole car vibrate like an HVAC unit, if I so choose.AfterI got it in 2016, I put in a new thermo stat and a new set of tires. Now, 70,000 or so miles later, it has crossed the 200,000mile threshold. And with a new timing belt (installed), new motor mounts (soon!) and a bit of suspension work on the front end, my mechanic says it will make 300,000 miles, easy. And according to my mechanic, in one more year, when it turns 20 and becomes, technically, a vintage automobile, my ancient car will be exempt from state emission standards.
2 |FRONTUPSEPT.15-21,2022 Office: 336.681.0704 First copy is free, all additional copies are $1. ©2022 Beat Media Inc. TCB IN A FLASH @ triad-city-beat.com BUSINESS PUBLISHER/EXECUTIVE EDITOR Brian brian@triad-city-beat.comClarey PUBLISHER EMERITUS Allen allen@triad-city-beat.comBroach OF COUNSEL Jonathan Jones EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR Sayaka sayaka@triad-city-beat.comMatsuoka CHIEF CONTRIBUTORS James james@triad-city-beat.comDouglas ART ART DIRECTOR Charlie charlie@triad-city-beat.comMarion SALES KEY ACCOUNTS Chris chris@triad-city-beat.comRudd AD MANAGER Noah noah@triad-city-beat.comKirby CONTRIBUTORS Carolyn de Berry, John Cole, Owens Daniels, Luis H. Garay, Kaitlynn Havens, Jordan Howse, Matt Jones, Autumn Karen, Michaela Ratliff, Jen COVER: Photographer Ryan Gustman stands in the old train station in Winston-Salem. [photo by Ryan Gustman]
after delivering kegs to frat houses for 10 years, but the engine was unstoppable. I eventually sold it for nearly twice what I paid for it to a Guatemalan woman who drove it all the way back to Central America for
We celebrated with an oil change and a new set of tires, the second one for this car, or maybe even the third. Who knows? Maybe in another 50,000 miles I’ll even get the car painted. But probably not. It’s still a beater, after all.
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the beater is that, were someone to graze against it in a parking lot, you
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The 200,000-mile high club a beater
@ Presbyterian Church of the Covenant (GSO) 6 p.m.
The Black and Brown Women’s Vot ing Initiative, St. James Presbyterian Church’s Social Justice Advocacy Ministry, the Pulpit Forum of Greens boro and other community organi zations have partnered to host the People’s Town Hall, where you can ask questions and give comments to candidates for state and national offices about issues regarding hous ing, food insecurity, jobs and more. The event will also be live streamed from Beloved Community Center’s Facebook page
@ Jaycee Park (GSO) 5 p.m.
The UNCG School of Theatre pres ents a production of “Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea,” combining poet ry, humor, wordplay, and ritual as 18-year-old Dontrell travels the Atlan tic Ocean searching for an ancestor lost during the Middle Passage. To purchase tickets, call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336.334.4392 or go to vpa.uncg.edu
Goat Yoga @ Brown Truck Brewery (W-S) 10:30 a.m.
Guilford Native American Association’s 45th Annual Pow Wow
Guilford Native American Associa tion is hosting its 45th annual Pow Wow where you can learn more about Native American culture through songs, dances and more. Find more information and purchase tickets on Eventbrite
Triad Pride Acting Company is hold ing auditions for actors ages 16 and up for “Broadway Our Way,” a revue in which gay and lesbian stories are told through music, where men sings songs originally written for women and vice versa. Find more information and video submission instructions on the event page on Facebook.
SATURDAY Sept. 17
Greensboro Pride Festival
After a 2-year hiatus because of COVID, Greensboro Pride is excited to announce the Pride festival is back this year with food, fun and per formances. Visit greensboropride. org for more information.
Brown Truck Brewery invites people of all ages and experience levels to a relaxing morning of yoga with baby goats from Lazy Day Farm and Pet ting Zoo. Sign up on the event page on Facebook.
Kernersville Little Theatre is kick ing off its “Welcome to the Family” season with productions of “Proof” by David Auburn. The play follows Catherine Hall as she struggles to find her place in the world after the death of her father. Find more information and purchase tickets at kltheatre.com
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Proof @ James Fitzpatrick Auditorium (Kernersville) 7:30 p.m.
@ Downtown (GSO) 11 a.m.
Heroes and Villains! Battle for The Pit! @ Bailey Park (W-S) 6 p.m.
SUNDAY Sept. 18
@ Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre (GSO) 7:30 p.m.
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Head to Bailey Park’s coal pit in front of Incendiary Brewing as Piedmont Wind Symphony’s Pops in the Pit se ries continues with this free program of music from Star Wars, the Marvel Universe and more. Gather your team and get ready for live music trivia, too.
Broadway Our Way Auditions
The People’s Town Hall
Biden noted the obstacles that stand in the way of some potential educators from
“Our classrooms need diverse perspectives and the chance to learn from teachers from every single back ground,” Biden said.
“Teaching isn’t what we do, it’s who we are,” she said. “And yet, for all of us who answered this calling, there is someone who maybe didn’t. Or someone who felt like they had to walk away…. And why is that?”
We need you, yes you. All of you. “ “ ‘We need you’ Jill
During her visit, Biden, who has worked in education for more than a decade, talked about the importance of quality schools and teachers, and how NCA&T is leading the way in the Triad.
While she didn’t explicitly touch on the topic, Biden’s speech seemed to push back against the conservative movement that has villainized critical race theory, erad icated LGBTQ+ rights in schools and pushed for book bans.
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Biden touched on the fact that she’s back teaching in classrooms at Northern Virginia Community College and how she loves the start of every new school year.
n Monday afternoon, First Lady Jill Biden visited NC A&T State University as part of the Department of Education’s ‘Road to Suc cess Back to School Bus Tour,’ which aims to showcase the ways that communities are helping students recover from the pandemic. She was joined by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Rep. Kathy Manning.
First lady Jill Biden speaks at NC A&T State UniversityMonday.on
PHOTO BY CAROLYN DE BERRY Biden visits NC A&T, talks education, teacher retention
“I’m so excited to be here in Aggieland,” Biden said. “It’s wonderful to kick off… ‘The Road to Success Tour’ at our nation’s largest HBCU; this is wild.”
She talked about the importance of having diverse faculty, including Black educators who look like their students and can relate to their experiences.
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“If we want to add more bright, talented people into this field… we have to give them the support that they or you all deserve,” Biden said. “We have to come to places like NC A&T and say, ‘We need you, yes you. All of you.’”
“Join us; become a teacher,” she said. “And we will change the world, one stu
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realizing their dreams of teaching: student loans (“Which now we have an answer to,” she said), low salaries, class sizes and safety concerns.
Part of a healthy education landscape, Biden argued, is the recruitment and retention of quality teachers. And in order to do that, she said educators need to use their ‘teacher voice’ to encourage others to answer the call.
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dent at a time.”
However, the union said they opposed to mea sures, calling them a “distraction” and instead called for an expansion of the state’s Teaching Fellows loan forgiveness plan, increasing funding for teaching assistants and reinstating master’s pay and experi ence-based raises for teachers.
Earlier this month, Education NC reported that a state commission considered changes to the proposal and added a recommendation that master’s pay be reinstated. The commission will continue to work on the proposed model. Feed back can be sent to pathways.feedback@dpi.nc.gov.
While Biden and Cardona touched on the ways in which the Biden adminis tration’s efforts have helped schools reopen and eliminate debt for thousands of borrowers, not much was detailed about how the administration hopes to increase teacher pay.
Last month, the North Carolina Association of Educators, a statewide union for teachers, opposed a plan to change how teachers are licensed and paid. According to reporting by WUNC, the proposal would “rid of the annual raises teachers currently receive for experience during the first 15 years of their careers. Instead, it would establish pay on factors like student growth
[W]e will change the world, one student at a time. “ “
According to a report by the News & Observer from May, North Carolina ranked 34th in average teacher pay this year, falling one ranking lower than last year in which the state ranked 33rd. Unfortu nately for educators, average salaries for teachers have stagnated or fallen in recent years, allowing for the state to slip behind in rankings.
ABOVE: Jill Biden poses with an attendee during the event at NCA&T State University on Monday.
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on state tests, and evaluations of teachers by students and administrators.” The plan would also allow for teachers to earn higher salaries by being mentored by other educators and suggests a higher starting salary of $45,000 compared to the current base salary of $37,000.
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Media, for creative services like video production and marketing. Uplift Media LLC has since been dissolved.It’sabad look for the former Winston-Salem city councilman and state legislator, who is the cur rent pastor at First Baptist Calvary Church.Buta parsing of the indictment elicits more questions than an swers, beginning with the fact that $26k is not all that much money, even for the nonprofit Bethesda Center, which according to tax documents took in more than $1 million in revenue from donations and grants in 2020 alone.
But we don’t know the difference between what Uplift provided and that of the “free” company that was willing to work as a charitable donation, a deal set up by “Board Member-1,” as they areknown in the indictment. Citing a print ad contract with the Winston-Salem Journal as evidence of overlap in creative services seems like a reach.
A bad look for Derwin Montgomery
And why now?
nature of Montgomery’s travel — was it for work? — and right-sizing the amounts. For example, the $1,000 expense for a “luxury” hotel in Los Angeles would barely cover a single night in one of that city’s finest hotels. A night at the Hotel Bel Aire, for example, is more than $1,200. As for $260 in strip-club dollars… well, people go to the strip club on expense accounts all the time, and $260 is not exactly a wildSincenight.Montgomery has pleaded not guilty, these details should emerge in court.
It does seem that Montgomery violated a conflict of interest in hiring his own media company, and the amounts — all less than $5,000, which meant they did not need board approval — are sus.
As for charging Bethesda for use of his car… he’s on his own for that one.
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he Derwin Montgom ery indictment on Aug. 29 fills in some of the details that the news cannot: an itemized list of the alleged fraud — 14 counts, each for less than $5,000, total ing $23,940.25, and a 15th count alleging embezzlement of federal funds that brings the Feds’ total to $26,299.57. That’s how much they say Montgomery siphoned off from the Bethesda Home less Center during a 3-month period between 2018-20, where he served as executive director making more than $73,000 a year… until he abruptly resigned in DecemberAccording2020.tothe document, the money was spent on hotels and airfare, use of his car and a couple hundred bucks at a Las Vegas strip club. The bulk of it, $23,000, went to media-productionMontgomery’scompany,Uplift
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But the biggest question is the impetus for the investigation. Surely Montgomery’s $25k or so, which amounts to about $10,000 a year, did not trigger an IRS audit and it is likely not the most egre gious example of fraud in North Carolina’s Middle District. Why would federal agents hone in on such small potatoes?
by Sayaka Matsuoka
Abandoned building photographer Ryan Gustman reembraces the light
“Under Rena Marie’s there was a Cold War fallout shelter that still had the civilian defense, all the stuff in there, the crackers, a bed setup, a bunch of old dining tables from when that used to be a restaurant in the ‘60s or ‘70s,” Gustman says. “And in one part of it, it had a bunch of original civilian defense stuff. And the door to get in had collapsed so there was no way to get into it unless you went through a kind of like a sewer air thing and I found it and opened it and went to Mike Coe and said, ‘Hey Mike, you have a fallout shelter under here.’”
He bought his first digital camera — a cheap Canon Rebel T3 and started seeking out more buildings. At first it was easy, there were a lot to pick and choose from. He made it into the Pepper Building, where he found newspa pers from the 1980s and discovered a fallout shelter on Trade Street under Rena Marie’s.
The white, tacky excrement that gets caked onto city side walks and sometimes befalls unsuspecting parkgoers is a lot deadlier than asbestos, according to him.
The 32-year-old photographer waves his hands animatedly as he de scribes the pack that he carries when he’s working. In addition to a respira tor, he makes sure to bring a flashlight — several in fact — his tripod, gloves, a first-aid kit and multiple batteries because, “If you’re underground and your flashlight goes out, you’re dead.”
“I always bring a respirator,” Gustman says. “Because there’s mold, as bestos, all the fun shit. Pigeon shit — that’s a biggie; pigeon crap kills more than asbestos does. People don’t realize, but pigeon lung is a lot worse.”
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yan Gustman knows to avoid pigeon shit.
Gustman, who currently operates Urbanmez, his own photography com pany, has spent years finding his way into and documenting abandoned buildings. Since he started in 2013, he estimates that he’s been in close to 400 or 500 locations, many of them in Winston-Salem. But he still remem bers his first.
“But before, it was the Reynolds Tobacco warehouse where they did a lot of the curing and processing of the tobacco. And it looked and smelled amaz ing. Tobacco has this kind of molasses smell to it and all of the paint had been chipping away. A lot of it was green paint falling from the ceiling and of course, it’s all lead paint. And the floors were all wood and the creaking. There’s just a lot to take in from a sensory input perspective.”
It’s second nature to him now, after all the years of crawling into tight places, dark crevices and ducking under rusty pipes. It’s part of the job, and it’s something that he’s gotten really good at.
After that, he was hooked.
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Finding and capturing images of abandoned buildings was never part
Artist Ryan Gustman sits in the old RJ Reynolds building board room.
“That building now is Plant 64 over in Innovation Quarter,” Gustman says.
“I went and I found the board room, the Reynolds board room, where they
“I wanted to communicate how it really felt,” he says. “The raw empti ness, the loneliness, the punchiness of the dark. I found that I was cap turing that in a way that a lot of other abandoned building people weren’t. Others would add grittiness or light noise.”
of Gustman’s plan. In fact, he had never really pursued any other creative hobbies until he started taking photographs. But after that first experience at the old Reynolds warehouse, he says he felt pulled to see more.
Even so, he says he’s taking his time getting back into it and says he’ll find a way to keep pursuing the artform because it’s important for posterity. His plan is to expand his business and get others to join him in capturing unique footage. He also hopes that the developers moving into the city recognize the need to preserve the buildings’ history and will reach out to his business to do so.
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Not long after he got his shots, the entire building was renovated into the Kimpton Cardinal Hotel, the Katharine Brasserie & Bar on the first level and multiple apartment buildings. Gustman was invited to the grand opening and was shocked.
In his early twenties, he says he almost lost himself to alcoholism and depression.
“School was a little challenging,” he says. “I went to four different elemen tary schools, a bunch of middle schools and went to Mt. Tabor for high school. I didn’t graduate and then I went to Forsyth Tech.”
“I needed an outlet or I was going to die,” Gustman says. “Either by suicide or assisted suicide from drinking myself to death. There’s a reason why a lot of people on the spectrum don’t live that long. I found a release. Even normal people need a creative outlet. I didn’t go into ativebuildingsabandonedtogetacreoutletbutitwas a calling.”Ashe found more buildings and practiced taking photos, he developed his own process that worked for him.
One of his most memorable experiences was when he got access to the Reynolds Building, the “crown jewel of Winston-Salem,” as it was known, before it was renovated in 2016. Gustman believes that he was one of the only photographers that got to capture most of the inside of the building before the changes.
made the decisions that affected billions, if not trillions of people,” Gust man recalls. “When you went in there, it was literally the way it was left. The ornate mirror in the room, the wood paneling, the wallpaper, just left as it was. And then you went into the ‘Think Tank Room’ which had a round board table with four chairs where you could imagine executives would talk for their final authorizations and you could feel the decisions that were made in that room.”
“There’s something visceral about it,” he says. “It’s experiencing a place in true liminality, like an actual space stuck in time, in a way that the average person doesn’t even get to come close to experiencing. Like the closest you could come is maybe going to a foreign country where you don’t un derstand anything…. Even in a museum it feels fake, but there, it is real and there’s nothing like it.”
In the last few months, he’s started picking up his camera again, hoping to cap ture new footage. But it’s been hard, namely because many of the buildings that once dot ted the Winston-Salem skyline are gone.
It was around that time that Gustman’s art began capturing the attention of oth ers, prompting news interviews and even a few documentaries. But it became too much, he says.“Ibecame de pressed,” he says. “I was overextending myself partly because of the photography.”
“I want to get back to doing new buildings, but the problem is that Winston-Salem doesn’t have any more buildings,” he says. “There’s nothing left. I’ve been in the Reynolds tunnels. I’ve been in the places that kids have been going into for years. I mean, how do you top the Reynolds building?”
“There’s a song and dance that needs to be done so we don’t lose our history,” Gustman says. “This emotion is a first world problem, but it’s a first world problem until history starts to repeat itself and there’s nothing left to ground people.”
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As he kept taking photographs, Gustman found that it helped add a balance to his life that he had been missing before. When he was a kid, maybe around five or six years old, Gustman was diagnosed with autism. He describes being hyperactive and not fitting in during much of his life.
“They took everything out,” he says. “They took every single thing out, the wood paneling has been painted over, the ornate mirrors gone. The red and black theme they had was just gone and it’s a fucking wedding venue now…. That room needs to be in a museum.”
A part of Gustman’s process is that he only allows himself three attempts per“I’veshot.lost once-in-a-lifetime photos because I didn’t get it in the third at tempt,” he says. “But I’ve found that’s what’s worked for me.”
Maroon paneling peeks through the darkness at the old ‘Baby Shamu’ lounge on Liberty Street.
Learn more about Ryan Gustman and his business Urbanmez by visiting his website at urbanmez.com or following his Instagram at @urbanmez.
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Players are pulled from the ranks of the PBR circuit, the young ones pay ing their dues and the older ones still trying to earn a living in a particularly punishing field. They’re drafted and traded, like in any other sport, and their
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Professional bullfighters, in green, triangulate the charging bull who has thrown the Ice Man, Kaique Pacheco, of the Nashville Stampede.
It’s a team sport, but individual performance is paramount, a sentiment summed up succinctly by 19-year-old Rookie of the Year Bob Mitchell of the Kansas City Outlaws: “It’s still man vs. bull.”
These bulls are raised for the sport at specialty ranches across the globe, just as the riders themselves come from far-flung places — the American West, yes, but also Canada and Australia, with healthy South American contingents on every team. And just as the men are scored on their rides — up to 50 points if they can hold on past the 8-second mark — the bulls, too, are scored on their performance, up to 50 points for speed, power and orneriness. If the rider holds on, the total points are awarded to his team. If he gets thrown, his team gets an X and the bull gets the points.
Each team posts five riders who take their turns on the bulls; occasionally, when the bull underperforms or the clock starts late or some other infraction occurs, a reride order will be issued, giving the team one more shot at 8 seconds.
t’s my first rodeo.
The riding of bulls by humans has been around for as long as the two species have coexisted on theTheplanet.Carolina
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So I get to the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum an hour early for the first night of the Carolina Cowboys Profes sional Bull Riding home stand, where I meet a floor tech named John-Jon, who tells me it’s his first time, too.
Together we grapple with our limited understanding of the sport of professional bullriding. Is it like monster trucks, which has a predetermined outcome? Or is it like a surfing competition, where riders are awarded with style points for tricks and such?
“They’rethemselves.rightthere,” John-Jon says, gesturing to a flank of pens just behind the jumbotron.
The riding of bulls by humans, of course, has been around for as long as the two species have coexisted on the planet. But this is the inaugural year for the PBR Teams Series, which turns an individualized sport into a group ef fort. And the Carolina Cowboys, out of Winston-Salem, begin their first home series in Third Place.
Over the course of the three-day competition we both come to a better understanding of the sport, the men who engage in it and even the bulls
“I usually work with Disney,” he says.
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And there they are: more than a dozen of these giants standing silent and stock still as colored lights splash across the arena’s empty seats and dirt floor while Bob Seger’s “I Remember” tumbles through the sound system. Fifteen-hundred pounds apiece, shoulder muscles bunched like a couple of bowling balls, spreading horns as thick as contractor-grade PVC pipe, their points dulled to menacing knobs, each bull bigger than a tractor, with a head larger than my own torso, they shift their weight silently, pivot their necks, wait their moment.
Cowboys, 8 seconds at a time
For the event, the Joel has been transformed. Out in the parking lot, a
There are eight teams in all — elegant! — and our home squad, the Caroli na Cowboys come in third place on Friday. Over the course of the weekend their riders — including former world champion Cooper Davis, the Brazilian Leonardo Lima and closer Daylon Swearingen, the current world champion, called the “closer” because he rides last — climb to No. 1 in the standings before heading to Oklahoma City this weekend.
lem, and Eli Vastbinder, closer for the Oklahoma Freedom, from Statesville.
This Oklahoma Freedom rider chases the 8-second mark for a qualifying ride.
Mitchell is not the youngest rider; — that would be 18-year-old Vitor Los nake of the Arizona Ridge Riders, who came from Brazil just a few weeks ago to make his PBR debut. The oldest is 47-year-old Ednei Caminhas, coaxed out of retirement by the Texas Rattlers for this first season of the Team Series. They’re all short, powerful men who look like they’re made of leather and sinew, with forearms like nautical ropes and outsized hands that look like farm tools, each of them willing to be tossed and thrashed by an angry bull, like a ribbon tied on the end of a stick until they either get thrown — which happens about half the time — or they hit the 8-second mark, which is a lot longer than it seems when you’re clenched atop a ginormous beast that’s doing everything it can to fling you off.
Bullriding is big in North Carolina. Carolina Cowboys Head Coach Jerome Davis, of Archdale, won a world championship in 1995, three years before a throw from a bull paralyzed him from the chest down. He coaches the team fromaMorewheelchair.thanafew of the PBR team riders are from the Old North State, including Ezekiel Mitchell of the Austin Gamblers, who lives in Winston-Sa
The bulls have fans, too. John-Jon has learned that the bull named Big Black is known as “the Michael Jordan of Bulls.”
Carolina Cowboy Boudreaux Campbell on the jumbotron.
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earnings and stats are tracked online. Longtime riders like Chase Outlaw, Keyshawn Whitehorse and “The Iceman” Kaique Pacheco have strong fol lowings. Some have earned more than $1 million on the circuit.
And bullriding scenes from the 2015 film The Longest Ride, adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel, were shot right here in the LJVM.
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That night, the second of competition, the home-team Cowboys harnessed that energy to climb to First Place in the standings with strong rides from Cooper Davis, Madison Tay lor and a stunning 87.75 score from Daylon Swearingen atop a bull named Jailhouse Cat at the close to defeat the Ridge Riders 256.5 to 169.5, capping off a 6-game winning streak.
This makes the Carolina Cowboys the best professional sports team in the state right now, and Daylon Swearingen, still No. 1 in the PBR rankings, its greatest athlete. So far this year he’s earned more than $1.5 million, eight seconds at a time.
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A fat layer of red dirt covers the floor of the arena, with a pyrotechnic stage set in the mid dle. A VIP section, where Carolina Cowboys Owner Richard Childress entertains his guests, runs along one side, and a podium for the TV announcers sits at the far end.
In the first round of their match against the Nashville Stampede, Iceman bested the Cowboys’ Davis by just .75 points. After an 84.5-point reride by Swearingen, again atop Jailhouse Cat, failed to cover the spread, the Cowboys lost by just 1.5 points, 259.25 to 257.75.Thehome team rallied in the Bonus Round, however, scoring the maximum 8 points after Taylor rode Duke the bull for an 89.75-point score.Itwas enough to put them in sole posses sion of First Place in the PBR rankings before next week’s matches in Oklahoma City, then events in Ridgedale, Mo.; Fort Worth, Texas; and Glendale, Ariz. before the championships in Las Vegas begin on Nov. 4.
In its first season, the PBR Team Series is al ready huge. By Saturday night the place is sold out, seats filled with hip-hugging bluejeans and Daisy Dukes, white cowboy hats and plaid shirts with the sleeves cut off.
Sunday afternoon’s competition did not go as well for the Carolina Cowboys.
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Cowboy Days festival coincides with the Caro lina Classic Fair, happening at another section of the fairgrounds. The concession ring is lined with sponsors: Bobcat, Cooper Tires, Boot Barn, Kubota Farm Equipment, US Border Security Patrol.
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George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic perform at the 2022 NC Folk Festival in downtown Greensboro.
SHOT IN THE TRIAD
BY CAROLYN
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