Vince Kong

From his home studio on Santa Fe’s south side, Rocque Ranaldi sifts through a stack of compact discs resting near a pair of CD turntables, a mixer and studio monitors.

While the pile, which was meticulously assembled throughout the week, contains most of the pieces he needs for his set, Ranaldi said he always leaves room for moments of last-minute inspiration. And on this evening, that meant scouring his wall display of about 1,000 CD jewels — each one grouped by genre: hiphop, rock, funk, etc. — for a 15-second comedy bit from Chris Rock.

After a few frantic seconds, the high-energy 38-year-old Alaska native turned back to his original pile. “It&rs...

B.J. Rossow stands atop of her first slalom run of the day, surveying a course of red and blue flags. With her heart pounding, she crouches in place — knees bent, back slightly arched.

The buzzer sounds, gates open and she’s off.

Just moments before, Pam Alexander was hurling herself down a 300-plus foot ramp in the ski jump competition, sticking her landing to cheers of “She’s doing it, yeah,” and shouts from the crowd.

Not bad for a couple of sexagenarians.

Plus, Rossow, 62, and Alexander, 61, were able to compete without ever donning a pair of skis.

The two aren’t part of a 60-and-older extreme-sports movement. They were among a crowd of...

Golf etiquette dictates that throwing your clubs is bad form.

That is, unless your clubs of choice are Frisbees and your game of choice is disc golf.

The sport that originated in the 1960s and has grown by leaps and bounds in popularity since its inception has touched down in the Land of Enchantment, with the Deaf Disc Golf Nationals being held for the first time this week in and around the Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort, located 22 miles outside Taos.

Twenty-nine disc golfers, hailing from as far away as Salem, Ore., and Washington, D.C., converged on the three area courses — Sipapu Disc Golf Course, Two Gray Hares and the Picuris Pueblo course — to play in the fou...

It’s been a good year for Bob May. But that doesn’t mean he’ll be sad when 2008 comes to an end.

That’s because, in fewer than 12 months, May, who has been a golf pro at the Las Campanas Country Club for the past eight seasons, will get his shot at competing with the superstars of the PGA Tour.

May, 43, earned the opportunity of a lifetime by becoming one of three qualifiers for the Professional National Championship at Santa Ana Pueblo on June 25, 2009, after placing in the top three of the qualifier July 10 on the Twin Warriors course. The top 20 finishers at the 2009 PNC advance to next year’s PGA Tour Championship at Hazeltine in Chaska, Minn., on Aug. 10.

Summers for part-time steer wrestler Scott Dorenkamp usually meant packing up the family and a couple of horses and hitting the open road on the wide-ranging rodeo circuit.

This year, things aren’t so simple.

That’s because, with the rising cost of fuel prices — coupled with a Freightliner semi-trailer truck, which averages seven miles a gallon, and a 30-foot trailer and horses — Dorenkamp had to adjust his plans.

That change in plans brought the fulltime schoolteacher 350 miles southwest from his home in Bristol, Colo., to the 59th annual Rodeo de Santa Fe, which runs through Saturday.

Usually this time of year, Dorenkamp drives to rodeos as far north...