January 29, 2020
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All Set for Super
Bowl Sunday
The San Francisco 49ers will
face the Kansas City Chiefs in the
Super Bowl on Sunday.
The NFL Championship game
will be played at Hard Rock Sta-
dium in Miami Gardens, Fla. with
kickoff scheduled for approxi-
mately 3:30 p.m. The game’s live
broadcast will be carried on the
Fox entertainment network, car-
ried locally by KPTV Channel 12.
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San Francisco reached the final
game by pounding Green Bay in
the NFC championship and Kan-
sas City handled Tennessee in the
AFC title game.
Each team’s offensive and de-
fensive line has played above av-
erage this season, with the 49ers
defensive line being credited for
their greatest strength and the
Chiefs offensive line as their most
powerful asset.
Singers Jennifer Lopez and
Shakira will provide the halftime
entertainment and Demi Lova-
to will sing the national anthem.
Lovato is a Grammy-nominated
singer, songwriter, actress, advo-
cate, philanthropist and business Sunday’s 2020 Super Bowl matches up quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs
(left) and Jimmy Garoppol of the San Francisco 49ers.
woman.
Kobe’s Death Stuns World
C ontinued from f ront
Kobe — he was like a little
brother to me,” retired NBA
great Michael Jordan said. “We
used to talk often, and I will
miss those conversations very
much. He was a fierce competi-
tor, one of the greats of the game
and a creative force.”
Thousands of mourners gath-
ered Monday outside the glis-
tening steel-and-glass edifice
of the Staples Center where
the Los Angeles Lakers legend
made so much basketball his-
tory.
“The memories that he gave
us as a family were great mem-
Bolton Shades Trump Defense
ories,” said Lawrence Perez or
North Hollywood, who arrived
with his wife, Maureen, and
15-year-old daughter, Desiree.
“We could have been at home,
but we wanted to be with other
people who are kind of going
through the same thing.”
Bryant retired in 2016 as the
third-leading scorer in NBA
history, finishing two decades
with the Lakers as a prolific
shot-maker with a sublime all-
around game and a relentless
competitive drive. He held that
spot in the league scoring ranks
until Saturday night, when the
Lakers’ LeBron James passed
him for third place during a
game in Philadelphia, Bryant’s
hometown.
He was the league MVP in
2008 and a two-time NBA scor-
ing champion. He teamed with
Shaquille O’Neal in a combusti-
ble partnership to lead the Lak-
ers to consecutive NBA titles in
2000, 2001 and 2002. He went
on to win two more titles in
2009 and 2010.
His Lakers tenure was marred
by scandal when in 2003, Bry-
ant was accused of raping a
19-year-old employee at a Col-
orado resort. He said the two
had consensual sex, and prose-
cutors later dropped the sexual
assault charge at the request of
The
ing memoir “Becoming.” It’s the
third Grammy win for the Obama
household. Obama’s husband won
for the audiobook recordings of
at Station 7 in east Portland last his memoirs “Dreams of My Fa-
week for featuring a calendar of ther” and “The Audacity of Hope”
homeless camp photos seen as dis- in 2006 and 2008.
paraging to homeless people.
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Week Review
President Trump’s defense fin-
ished its final arguments in the
Senate impeachment trial Tues-
National Security Advisor John
day, but the focus of senators
Bolton or other witnesses to testi-
turned to a battle coming later this
fy. In a new book Bolton directly
week over whether to call former
links Trump to politically motivat-
ed investigations.
ODOT to Study I-5 Impacts
Seasonal
Specials
the accuser. The woman filed
a civil suit against Bryant that
was settled out of court.
Among those killed in the
crash were John Altobelli, 56,
longtime head coach of South-
ern California’s Orange Coast
College baseball team and fa-
ther of a former University of
Oregon student-athlete; his
wife, Keri; and daughter, Al-
yssa, who played on the same
basketball team as Bryant’s
daughter, said Altobelli’s broth-
er, Tony, sports information di-
rector at the school.
Costa Mesa, Calif. Mayor
Katrina Foley tweeted that the
dead also included Christina
Mauser, a girls basketball coach
at a nearby elementary school.
Oregon’s top transportation deci-
sion makers on Thursday agreed
to delay until March a key vote
on what to do with a $715 million
project on Interstate 5 through the
Rose Quarter. Officials will now
look at past and future impacts on
black neighborhoods and to further
study how proposals respond to the
historic displacement and if build-
ing covers spanning the highway
could accommodate buildings.
Fire Station Calendar Rebuke
Portland Fire Chief Sara Boone
and JoAnn Hardesty, the city
commissioner overseeing the Fire
Bureau, admonished firefighters
Better Graduation Rates
More than 80% of Portland Pub-
lic Schools students graduated
in the 2018-19 school year, the
best graduation rates since a new
model to support students was
adopted by the school district in
2011. The graduation rates for Af-
rican-American, multi-racial and
Latino students increased to be-
tween 72.3% and 72.6%.
Grammy for Audiobook
Former first lady
Michelle Obama
Sunday snagged
her first Grammy
win for the au-
diobook version
of her best-sell-
High Capacity Buses Funded
TriMet on Thursday celebrated
the imminent start of construction
on the $175 million Division Tran-
sit Project. The 15-mile stretch of
improvements will bring high-ca-
pacity buses to a key street in Port-
land and Gresham, as well as more
than 40 new stations.
Gun Printer Rule Challenged
Oregon Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum joined a group of 21
Attorneys General in a lawsuit filed
last week challenging the Trump
administration’s latest rule allowing
3D-printed gun files to be released
on the internet. The rule would ef-
fectively enable anyone to access
3D-print files online and make un-
registered, untraceable firearms.