The investigator (his name was protected) reportedly observed the use of hidden barbs in what is supposed to be a bloodless bullfight. He leapt into action. "The Sheriff's Office said that around ...

Dennis Borba makes his stand. Borba is the lone American matador in the Fiesta Brava (search), a Portuguese tradition of bloodless bullfighting, now held in the United States. "To the Portuguese ...

But on this evening, the main attraction was a bullfight. It was billed as a “bloodless bullfight” -- in which the animal is not killed in the ring. “But they are anything but bloodless ...

It's a tempting finale - but we have a long drive home. Bloodless bullfights are held in California from March to October. Many are in small towns of the San Joaquin Valley, such as Gustine ...

"There's no way out," Francisco explains, "We have it in blood." "I'm sure that I [was ... and the Spanish addiction to tradition. Bullfighting started in the town of Ronda in the 18th century.

See About archive blog posts. Animal activists are taking issue with a so-called ‘bloodless bullfighting’ event held last weekend in Artesia -- and they’re urging Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley to ...

The bullfights at the Santa Maria Bullring in La Gloria are bloodless. Hundreds come to watch bullfights that end not with a sword, but when the matador plucks a flower from the back of the bull.

In Portugal, the bull doesn't die, and there is absolutely no blood shed here in California. The bullfights have been created to always be bloodless. The cavaleiros use a velcro-tipped banderilla ...

But bullfighting contests don’t have to end in blood. In fact, there was no blood at all last weekend in the Vauvert arena. The bulls that participate in corrida fights are expensive ...

The bullfights at the Stanislaus County Fair on Sunday night were bloodless, but they weren’t painless, and they were far from effortless. In temperatures still near triple digits, and wearing ...

Summer in Sacramento just hasn't been the same the past couple of years. The pandemic shut down a popular summertime tradition, the California State Fair. During the height of the pandemic ...