World Series hero’s Rodeo plan stopped by agent

Before gravitating to baseball, Cody Ross, one of the San Francisco Giants’ postseason heroes, wanted to be a bullfighter and rodeo clown. Ross, who grew up in Big Spring, Texas, attended Thursday’s National Finals Rodeo session, the sixth or seventh year he’s shown up with his father and brother. “We couldn’t afford it before then,” he told my colleague Jeff Wolf, while Ross joined us on media row. Ross asked his agent to pull some strings at NFR. “I wanted to get in the (bullfighter) barrel, but my agent didn’t think the Giants would like that,” he said. — Las Vegas Review-Journal