J.B. Mauney spent his entire life in the chute before suffering a career-ending injury. Now, less than a year later, the two-time world champion bull rider is back in the same place he started.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bull riding champion J.B. Mauney announced Tuesday that he decided to retire after breaking his neck during a recent competition.

LEWISTON, IdahoLEWISTON, Idaho — Bull riding star J.B. Mauney announced his retirement Tuesday, a week after breaking his neck in the Lewiston Roundup. The 36-year-old Mauney, from Charlotte, North ...

The richest bull rider who ever lived still welds his own fence. "The s--- you gotta do when you retire..." J.B. Mauney says on a recent Wednesday, grinning in a flame-resistant Wrangler shirt. Mauney ...

DALLAS — The hefty black bull was always going to hold a place in rodeo history. He was, after all, the last bull the great J.B. Mauney ever rode, and it was a ride that didn't last long; the bull, ...

DALLAS — The hefty black bull was always going to hold a place in rodeo history. He was, after all, the last bull the great J.B. Mauney ever rode, and it was a ride that didn't last long; the bull, ...

North Carolina is a hotbed for stock-car racing, and it's not the first locale that comes to mind as a breeding ground for bull riders. Brazil, however, is the birthplace of several of the top ...

J.B. Mauney stands backstage in the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. The soon-to-be 32-year-old has a beer in one hand as he answers questions from a journalist. He’d probably have a cigarette ...

On Saturday night, after he posted a rousing score of 90.75 aboard a snorting hunk of beast called Breakdown to take control of these PBR World Finals at the Thomas &Mack Center, the bull rider J.B.