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Jordan Spieth leans on Olympian Michael Phelps to help with mental approach

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – If Jordan Spieth needs some help with the mental aspect of his game during this pressure-packed week of golf, he knows exactly where to turn. Michael Phelps is r...

DATE: Aug 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

John Daly sings with Hootie, leaves PGA course broody

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – John Daly struggled on his final hole Thursday. Maybe he needed Hootie to hold his hand. Daly went from contender to curmudgeon after a triple bogey on the 18th ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Jason Day ‘hungry,’ eager to return to top of golf world

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jason Day’s swagger — and his motivation — have returned. “I’m hungry again — and I’m looking forward to trying to beat these guys,” Day said Wednesday on the ev...

DATE: Aug 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Eager for PGA, Matt Kuchar moves past British Open heartbreak

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Matt Kuchar is ready to lose that pesky label. Arguably golf’s best player without a major championship title gets another chance to shed that distinction this w...

DATE: Aug 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Prosecutor: Tiger Woods to plead guilty to reckless driving

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Tiger Woods has agreed to plead guilty to reckless driving and will enter a diversion program that will allow him to have his record wiped clean if he completes th...

DATE: Aug 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Short changed: Golfers at PGA embrace practicing in shorts

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Lucas Glover walked off the 18th fairway at Quail Hollow still feeling slightly underdressed. He wasn’t alone. “I don’t recognize some of these guys o...

DATE: Aug 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Attorney: Tiger Woods won’t attend impaired driving hearing

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Tiger Woods will not attend his arraignment Wednesday on a driving under the influence charge, his attorney said, meaning under court rules the superstar golfer will ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

PGA to May, while Tour mulls over its new schedule

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The PGA Championship moving to May in 2019 will cause the biggest change to the golf schedule in more than a decade. Still to be determined is just how much. ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Dustin Johnson out to prove his game is back at PGA Championship

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Dustin Johnson has one last chance at a major championship to prove he didn’t leave his game at the bottom of that staircase. The PGA Championship this week mark...

DATE: Aug 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Rory McIlroy feeling right at home at Quail Hollow for PGA Championship

Course site of Irishman’s first PGA Tour win

DATE: Aug 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

PGA Championship to move to May in 2019

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Associated Press has learned the PGA Championship is moving to May for the first time in 70 years when it goes to Bethpage Black in New York in 2019. The mov...

DATE: Aug 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Kim holds on to win Women’s British Open

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – I.K. Kim banished the haunting memory of missing a 14-inch putt to win a major and replaced it with the sweetest sensation. Finally, she can call herself a...

DATE: Aug 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Colorado history gets weird, wild, wacky at Fashion Do’s and Don’tsAnnual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Cowboys. Fancy ladies. Gold miners. Even-toed ungulates that some in Durango might consider more like rats.Where can you find a runway show that takes you on a whirlwind tour through the weird, wacky and wildly exaggerated 150 years of Colorado history? Only at Durango’s annual Fashion Do’s and Don’ts, held Wednesday, where models and audience members wore costumes celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial – the theme of this year’s two-week Snowdown celebration.Standout acts included the Ghosts of Durango, which featured four of Durango’s most famous ghosts: a Rochester hotel ghost in a Victorian get-up of a more “modern” variation; the Strater Hotel’s head of housekeeping, also head of more discreet services; a young girl haunting El Rancho’s bathroom; and Sheriff Bob Thompson, killed in a 1906 gunfight. according to emcee Suzan Lane. A Another act was the Secret Circus Society, featuring Rubi Starr, Jeni Gross, Tabatha Joy Bettin, Adrienne Young and Ethan Deffenbaugh dressed as a car and the roadside pests better known as deer. Group members said the inspiration for the costume came from lived experiences driving Durango roads. The two-person Cantine Couture act starred Leslie Ponce and Tyler Frakes in an homage to the plentiful variety of Mexican restaurants found in any Colorado town. Ponce, dressed in comically large Mexican pointy cowboy boots, ambled down the runway as if taking a stroll under the hot, dusty, high-altitude sun, while Frakes flitted about the stage in a bright yellow salsa dress. Ponce said this year’s costume had been tough to decide, but the final decision was inspired by TikTok videos of Mexican cowboys in pointy boots. This was the duo’s third year strutting down the runway. Why they keep coming back for more, Frakes said laughing, was, “for the fame, the glory and the attention.”

Fashion Do’s and Don’ts has been one of the most highly anticipated Snowdown events since its inception in the 1990s. It has more than doubled in size over the past several decades. Last year, there were a record number of models, and in order to keep the event at a manageable size, this year’s fashion show was the first one to require the acts to audition. But many of the models were unfazed by the change. “It was actually easy,” said Jodi Zuber, one part of the two-person duo that made up the 1950s Texas Invader Ski Couple. Her partner-in-costume, Danny Jaques, said they had been doing this for several years, and it’s good with everything going on in the world to “get some levity and let your hair down.” The performers were not the only ones in costume. Audience members also dressed in a wide variety of unique takes on what makes Colorado, Colorado. JonBenet Ramsey made a miraculous appearance, being played by an 82-year-old woman, as did Casa Bonita, an ensemble that included a taco, sopaipilla and gorilla in chains – to name some of the characters. By the end of the show, people were in high spirits, as usual. “It was just delightful,” said a first-time audience member. If blessed with the chance to get the much coveted tickets – he said he would jump on it. jbowman@durangoherald.com

Annual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Photos: Snowdown 2026 Fashion Do’s and Don’ts

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

About a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

The Durango Herald’s year in photos 2025

Photos: Chapman Hill fires up the snow guns

Jordan Spieth leans on Olympian Michael Phelps to help with mental approach

John Daly sings with Hootie, leaves PGA course broody

Jason Day ‘hungry,’ eager to return to top of golf world

Eager for PGA, Matt Kuchar moves past British Open heartbreak

Prosecutor: Tiger Woods to plead guilty to reckless driving

Short changed: Golfers at PGA embrace practicing in shorts

Attorney: Tiger Woods won’t attend impaired driving hearing

PGA to May, while Tour mulls over its new schedule

Dustin Johnson out to prove his game is back at PGA Championship

Rory McIlroy feeling right at home at Quail Hollow for PGA Championship

PGA Championship to move to May in 2019

Kim holds on to win Women’s British Open

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