Frank newsom injury report sunday night

En route to becoming arguably the best bullfighter in Professional Bull Riders history, "Fearless" Frank Newsom overcame drug addiction, a fight that was as fierce as any of the 1,800-pound beasts he's battled to protect riders.

"I've fought some of the meanest bulls that God ever created and some days I won, some days I didn't.

But I never felt defeated, even on the worst day.

Frank newsom injury report sunday night

With the drugs, man, it defeated me. I couldn't win," Newsom, 40, said Tuesday at the MGM Grand in advance of the PBR World Finals, which take place today through Sunday at the Thomas & Mack Center. "I don't care how tough you are or how smart you think you are.

If you're messing with drugs, you're going to lose."

Newsom found his calling at age 17, when he and the Texas cowboy he worked for rode bulls together.

"We'd take turns saving each other," he said of learning to bullfight, which entails protecting the rider after he is thrown off the bull.

"The first time I really saved a guy, something clicked an