HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT IT'S A LOTTA BULL ... But it's also the Sports Photo of the Year in Nye County sports in 2007. Bull rider Josh Hales was thrown from the bull during a Pahrump Fall Festival's Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association go-around in October at McCullough Arena.The bull stares down the would-be rider, who is trying his best to escape the behemoth. Hales succeeded, without further trouble. Advertisement

The top Pahrump Valley and Nye County sports stories of 2007:

1. Pahrump Valley will move into Class 4-A in the 2008-2009 school year, after the NIAA realignment committee ruled.

2. Pahrump Valley's football program, with three wins and a tie in its last 19 starts, faces difficult days.

3. Tonopah wins its first-ever Nevada state 1-A football championship.

4. Pahrump Valley's spring sports programs have a banner year, including a 3-A state championship for the girls team.

5. Dominique Maloy finishes with 15 individual state track championships before heading to Arizona State.

6. Pahrump Valley's girls golf team makes it three in a row at state.

7. Pahrump Valley Speedway to close ... and the Best in the Desert's Terrible's Town 250 Off-Road race is moving to Primm.

8. Pahrump Valley High School's first Hall of Fame class is inducted.

9. Pahrump Valley's Senior Little League baseball team advances to the regionals at Oregon. In 2008, girls' fast-pitch softball will be added.

10. Pahrump Valley wrestlers make it three straight 3-A regional championships.