pulling it all down. The crew usually finish up 9.30-10 a.m. the next morning. They go right through the night.Time was tight as the stadium less than 48 hours later had to be ready for so

Monday nights slate offers up seven games?? Which players should be in your Friday night DFS basketball lineups, and which superstars should stay on the daily fantasy bench? Joe Kaiser, Renee Miller and Al Zeidenfeld provide their picks and fades for the final day of the work week.Players to build aroundKyle Soppe -- Markieff Morris, Washington WizardsIts a new season, anything can happen -- in most cases. The Rockets were a below-average team in terms of defensive efficiency last season and rank dead last in the early going this season, making them an easy target on this abbreviated slate. Morris is a versatile big man, who has logged at least 33 minutes in four straight games, and given Washingtons up-tempo style, that means fantasy goodness. Morris has attempted 18 free throws over his last two games, while blocking multiple shots one night and recording three steals the other. Im building cash and GPP lineups around him tonight and feeling good about it.Renee Miller -- Kevin Durant, Golden State WarriorsDurant shined when he faced the Pelicans a couple weeks ago, with 30 points and 17 rebounds to go with a pair of blocks and steals. It was his best game of the season, not that theres really been a bad one from the Warriors new star. Im more willing to compromise at PG and not use Russell Westbrook than I am to fade Durant at SF tonight. New Orleans is surrendering the sixth-most fantasy points to the position and Durant might actually improve that rank tonight. There is enough mid-range value that I feel good about locking Durant into all lineups.Joe Kaiser -- George Hill, Utah JazzHill is averaging 20.4 points, 2.9 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal per game, and he remains reasonably priced on a night when he faces the 20th-ranked Philadelphia defense. Hill is shooting the ball well, making more than 60 percent of his shots in four of the last five games. Even on the second of a back-to-back, Im not hesitating to get him in my lineups on Monday.Al Zeidenfeld -- Langston Galloway, New Orleans PelicansHis minutes have been steady the past two games in the 28-31 minute range and now the Pelicans are without Lance Stephenson, which will solidify playing time and usage for Galloway for the short term, at the very least. Galloway is a competent scorer when given enough run to make things happen and is sitting at the minimum price on DraftKings tonight. If you want to be able to afford the stars, youll need his value until/unless something else pops up closer to lock time.Players to fadeKyle Soppe - Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ersAs a number-cruncher, I preach trusting the process over the results, but I simply cant trust The Process tonight with the Jazz coming to town. Utahs game plan is to slow tempo and dig in defensively; not exactly how you want the game script to look for fantasy purposes. The Jazz defend the paint with Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert, a tandem that is allowing the center position to account for fewer than 14 points per game this season. Embiid is a fine player, but he loses this battle of elite-nicknamed big men against The Stifle Tower and doesnt approach value tonight.Renee Miller -- Anthony Davis, New Orleans PelicansDavis has come back to Earth after scoring almost 200 fantasy points in his first two games, one of which was against the Warriors in New Orleans. While the Warriors are the leagues second-most generous matchup to opposing power forwards, Davis has notable home/road splits. In an equal number of career home and road games (133 each), Davis has 40 fewer rebounds, 34 fewer assists, 109 fewer blocks and 38 more personal fouls on the road. I know that few, if any, players at his position boast the kind of talent and opportunity Davis possesses, but Im not paying up for him tonight in cash game lineups with several alternatives at a far lower price point.Joe Kaiser -- Terrence Jones, New Orleans PelicansJones busted out last game and will certainly get a longer look going forward, but that also came in a game during which Dante Cunningham was suspended and out of the lineup. Recency bias will lead to Jones being on a lot of rosters tonight against Golden State, but with Cunningham back and Jones being one of the more inconsistent players in the NBA, Im staying away from him tonight.Al Zeidenfeld -- Myles Turner, Indiana Pacers - I like Turners talent, but his salary has ballooned to a point where I cant justify getting him into lineups anymore. 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Country and Western music had them dancing in the stands.The on-screen advertisements focused on welders and machine oil. And the smell of bulls hung in the air.Twenty-two riders from Australia, the United States and Brazil were also in the house with the aim to somehow stay on top of an assortment of bulls -- all with their own special names such as Red Rat, Rude Manners, Pistol Whip, Fox in Socks, Freak Show, Storm Boy, Hillbilly Deluxe and Devils Dance.As you watched over the next three hours -- arms and legs, hoofs and horns going in all directions -- you admired the competitors courage but kept wondering ... Why?What is the attraction of being relentlessly knocked about when on top of a wild, bucking bull, and then after falling or leaping off its back often having to confront a charging beast?The bull riders say its about adrenaline, the challenge, the excitement of trying to conquer the toughest of beasts. They revel in what appears to be a dangerous and lopsided contest.Among the competitors was 24-year-old Justin Paton, who hails from the small one pub, general store and two service stations Queensland country town of Nebo.?His intense passion for bull-riding, which has seen him the past two years be part of the PBR circuit in the United States, has led to a broken leg, a knee reconstruction, muscle tears, cartilage damage and a concussion.But Ive been lucky compared to a lot of people I know, Paton said. This is still something that I always wanted to do. I dreamed about it, but never really had the heart when I was a kid to give it a try. It used to scare me a bit first up, but I built up my courage.I got on my first poddy calf at a rodeo close to home when I was about 8. I hopped on my first bull when 15 or 16, and havent really looked back.Now it all revolves around staying on the bull for eight seconds so they register a score from the four judges.The rider receives a score out of 100, of which 50 of the points are allocated to how the bull performed and whether it provided a difficult or easy ride.Asked what he had to do to impress the judges, Paton said: Well, we have to stay on our bull to begin with.The judges normally start at looking at the bull, how much kick it has, what it does when it turns back, if it spins, how fast it is and so forth. It really depends on what the bull is doing. It also revolves around whether the bull rider is in control or not.Does that eight seconds feel like an eternity?It depends on how youre going with the bull, I guess. You might be having a pretty rough time, and youre thinking When is that buzzer going to go? Then there are other bulls you ride; you hear the buzzer go and you say to yourself: Im having too much fun. I dont want to get off.On Saturday night, Paton was among the leaders after two successful round rides.However, in the championship round, Enemies Everywhere flung him off early, enabling Brazilian Robinson Guedes to push ahead and win the title by virtue of being the only rider to successfully complete his ride three times.Guedes from Sao Paolo has been to Australian twice -- and won two national titles.An interpreter explained: Robinson likes Australia. He says: It is my type of herd.Then there is the fearless team of protection athletes, otherwise known as bull fighters or rodeo clowns.They have the toughest job of all, protecting the rider after they have finished their ride, and come to their rescue if they are hurt or in danger of being charged at.The bull will often go after the rider. The threat of serious injury is overwhelming. Even more so for anyone who is crazy enough to stand in the bullls way.ddddddddddddThe three-man protection team on Saturday night included Clint Kelly, an underground coal miner from central Queensland.He has had his fair share of injuries during his seven years bobbing and weaving in front of bulls, including a broken collarbone, and I was recently out of action for six weeks after breaking my jaw and some teeth.But I love it. Its good fun.You would think otherwise when watching graphic YouTube footage of Kelly at one PBR event where he was picked up and flung by a bull, and then charged at.Kelly survived that and many other testing moments.Yeah, you need a bit of heart to keep doing it, and also good cattle sense. We are there to distract the bull, which means getting in between the rider and the bull, and making ourselves an easier target.We have to make certain we get out safely as well, but that doesnt always happen. The plan is if anyone is going to be hit, its us.Kelly, a former rider, became a bull fighter by accident, taking up the role when several failed to turn up at a local Queensland bush rodeo.I was asked to give a hand, had a bit of a go at it, and liked it. I did it a few more times, and got hooked.On the circuit, you get to know a lot of the bulls, and they are not all the same. Some will go and look for the bull rider and try to hit him, or one of us, while others dont really want to be part of it, and instead look for the out gate.?You have to be prepared for anything.Their biggest fans are, not surprisingly, the bull riders.In my honest opinion, they dont get paid enough, Paton said. Theyve saved my hide plenty of times. Theyre essentially bodyguards and are jumping in front of bullets. The only thing is a bullet wont come back and get you again. A bull can.In the background are also compelling characters, including those who breed and supply the bulls to the PBR events, such as Jody Ruhland, who went to her first rodeo when just two weeks old.Her father, Darryl Doyle, was a rodeo rider, as was her husband Rick, until focusing on breeding commercial beef cattle and bucking bulls on the side on a 1200-hectare property at Mount Walker, west of Brisbane.The bulls become like your children. You dont like to let them out of your sight, or hand them over to someone else, Ruhland said.?The bulls have to qualify for an event the same way the riders do. There is a selection criteria. You cant just bring any bulls. They have to be bulls who are performing at their best.What they look for is a bull that kicks really well when it comes out of the chute, and also kicks high. Mostly they like bulls who turn back either way. They are looking for agility, speed, strength, all those things you look for in an athlete, I suppose.Jody, who provided five bulls for the Brisbane Last Cowboy Standing event the previous weekend, opted against bringing them to Sydney due to the long transport haul, but also because her focus was on getting the stadium ready for the event.As a member of the PBR production crew, Jody is involved in transforming an all-purpose arena into something resembling a country rodeo. It is an elaborate process.Around 250 tons of dirt, clay and sand is trucked in to provide the required surface. Bull pens, chutes and protection fences have also to be erected.And as soon as the last bull is out of there, we start pulling it all down. The crew usually finish up 9.30-10 a.m. the next morning. They go right through the night.Time was tight as the stadium less than 48 hours later had to be ready for something completely different -- a concert by The Cure.By that stage the riders were also well on their way to their next encounter with a raging bull.In Patons case, it is flying back to the United States for the PBR circuit.Ill be riding all over the place. The first couple of weeks Ill be up in the northern states, then traveling everywhere from Texas to Canada, California to New York City, Paton said.Endlessly pushing his body to the extreme. Yeah, but where else do you get paid to travel the world, and do what you like doing?Definitely a special breed. Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Nike NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys Store Wholesale Jerseys China Jerseys NFL China ' ' '