One look around the ring and you know this isn't the cattle crowd. Polished buckles, boots and spurs? Make way for dirty moccasins and oily shears. If it weren't for the pen teaming with fluffy, brown ...

It took Hilary Gietzen about 45 minutes to shear one sheep when he first started shearing 32 years ago. Now the 47-year-old can shear a sheep in 80 seconds during competitions. Gietzen recently placed ...

Announcer Curt Olson, who runs three-day sheep shearing schools twice a year at South Dakota State University, was the guide for the uninitiated at the first-ever sheep shearing competition to be held ...