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Tampa Bay Pro Rodeo is March 23-24 at the Florida State Fairgrounds (St. Petersburg Times)

**By Brandon Wright, Times Correspondent**

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

TAMPA -- Eight seconds.

It's roughly the amount of time it takes to tie one's shoe, or read a few
sentences. But for bull riders, it can mean the difference between completing
a treacherous ride or being unceremoniously slammed to the ground by a
2,000-pound animal with horns that is none too pleased having a human with
spurs on its back.

"It's dangerous, to say the least," Hall of Fame rider Don Gay said. "It's the
ultimate battle between man and beast."

And no one tamed the beast better than Gay. The Texas native holds a record
eight world championships and was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in
1979. But even the best was dinged up plenty of times in his career.

"It's not a question of if you're going to get hurt," Gay said. "It's when and
how bad will it be?"

Gay has had four knee surgeries, a torn groin, a shoulder operation, broken
fingers and ribs and what he flippantly referred to as "a little broken neck."

"It was a little scary but I just fractured some of the bones," he said. ...

St. Petersburg Times

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