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SPORTS DAILY wwwkcstarcom THE KANSA8 STAR Tuesday August 1 2000 Just in case Will Clark (left) comes to St Louis from Baltimore Women golf on the way? LPGAs Futures Tour is considering Ironhorse as a possible tournament site 8 as insurance for injured Mark McGwire 5 Royals Padres trade pitchers KC gets truck race Kansas Speedway is ready to put tickets on sale By JIM PEDLEY The Kansas City Star Ihe cost of speed Prices are for four-race packages in 200L They do not include Friday activities on race weekends CLUB LEVEL $330 SKY TOWER $270 TOWER $250 TURNS (upper level) $250-5270 TURNS (lower level) CENTER (lower level) TORNADO ALLEY (rows 1-5) $170 Requires additional one-time $1250 seat-cost fee Requires additional one-time $500 seat-cost fee Requires additional one-time $400 seat-cost fee Hie Kwtuu City Sur 534 ERA in 22 starts for the Padres this season use him out of the bullpen initially in the manager Tony Musersaid "Let him get his feet wet I know he's a starter but I want to give up on (Chad) Durbin The trade was the first made under the watch of new general manager Allard Baud But he got no particular rush in the crush of his first trading deadline as GM By DICK KAEGEL The Kansas City Star Right-hander Brian Meadows will be in the rotation eventually Meadows 24 was acquired from the San Diego Padres on Monday for right-hander lay Witasick 27 The deal was the only one the Royals made before the 3 pm nonwaiver deadline passed Monday Outfielder Johnny Damon as expected remained with the dub Meadows had a 7-8 record and a Meadows The availability of tickets fbrjfrdl-vidual races will depend oh frew quickly the ticket packages are sold "There may be a few individual tickets" speedway president Grant Lynch said "but I know We would like to sell all we can (as part of packages) Just like the Chiefs would I lynch called the prices think a great value for a top-of-the-line he said Track officials announced in May that the speedway would play host to a Busch Grand National race Sept 29 and a Winston Cup race Sept 30 Residents of Wyandotte County will be able to buy tickets Aug 17 and 18 Tickets will be available for all other fans Aug 21 The cost of ticket packages which include all four races currently scheduled for 2001 range from $170 to $270 for grandstand seats and from $250 to $330 for seats bought by way of personal Kansas Speedway has expanded its 2001 racing schedule Speedway officials will announce today that the NASCAR Craftsman Thick series will visit the track as a companion event for the IRL race next July Tickets for the races will go on sale later this month The trucks will race on Saturday July 7 the day before the Indy Racing League series hits the Wyandotte County track See ROYALS C-4 TODAY: Royals at Yankees 6:05 pm FSN and KMBZ (980 AM) See SPEEDWAY C-8 CHIEFS TRAINING CAMP Backfield runs like a dream Rushing game looks strong vs Vikings Smith feels up to facing another mess By ADAM TEICHER The Kinsai City Star COLUMBIA So Larry Smith thought this is how it ends He lay in bed a couple of weeks ago and he felt perfectly healthy except he could not breathe at all That probably sounds silly to you but how it was He felt no pain No soreness Not even a toothache He felt terrific really half his age except that no matter how hard he sucked for air nothing filled his lungs A man does some heavy thinking when he breathe Smith football coach did all of that You know been coaching football for 38 years Thirty-eight years man He started as an assistant coach in an Ohio town called Lima and then he worked for Bo Schem-bechler and then he became a head coach at Tulane and on and on Now here he goes again facing another make-or-break season another save-his-job season Nothing new there He lay in bed and he felt perfectly fine and he could not breathe He did some heavy thinking all right he asks "Sure I thought about The doctors caught it in time RIVER FALLS Wis It was just a late July practice against one' of the NFLs worst defenses The Chiefs still had plenty of reasons to be encouraged about their running game in joint practices against the Minnesota Vikings In the morning workout when five different running backs ripped off seven sizable runs the Chiefs were clearly dominant in this particular matchup The Vikings put up a stronger front in tiie afternoon but still the Chiefs were able to open holes "The running said coach Gunther Cunningham The individual heroes were many but none was more obvious than Mike Cloud Cloud last yearis second-round draft pick Was quick to the holes and madd a couple of nifty moves shucking off Fernando Smith in the backfield on one play and spinning to avoid defenders on another In the absence of Kimble Anders who was away tending to personal affairs after a death in his family Cloud solidified his hold on the starting halfback spot "My job isn't secure until 1 finish in that spot at the end of the Cloud said I think I performed well We scripted (Sunday) night what we were going to do We stuck to the script regardless of what kind of defense they were in If they were an eight-man front we were still going to run the Five other backs Rashaan Shehee Tony Rkhardsoa Donnell Bennett and rookies Dante Hall and Frank Moreau joined in the fun Each had at least one long run Hall a fifth -round pick from Texas added a dimension to the running game Quick and See PGSNANSKI C-3 K-State player Bates dies By KENT PULLIAM The Kaneai City Star Chiefs veteran corneiback Cris irishman (right) tipped the ball away from Minnesota receiver Randy Moss during a morning practice between the teams Monday In addition to Dishman the rookie defensive backs played well Story C-7 See CHIEFS C-7 We have to watch this each Monday? For the second straight year the Kansas State footbail team has been struck by a tragedy shortly before die season Defensive tackle Anthony Bates died Monday afternoon after experiencing a medical problem while driving his car near campus Shortly after 1130 am Bates was driving a 1999 Dodge truck southbound in the 1500 block of Denison Avenue in Manhattan The trade veered to the left of the center line and struck a northbound vehicle The track continued south re-entering the road and going about 800 feet before striking two parked cars According to a report issued by the Riley County Police Department Bates "appeared to be unconscious" at the scene of the accident He was transported to Mercy Health Center and was River falls wis tire upside? the question that should be on tire minds of the ABC executives who put together dw Al Michaels-Dan Fouts-Denrus MiDer-Eric Dickerson Melissa Start "Monday Night Football" broad cast team We know tire downside We watched and listened to the downside for three hours Monday evening during a special presea son telecast of" MNF" from Can ton Ohio site of the NFL Hal of game To say that Dickerson graduated magna cum laude from the Magic Johnson School of Broadcasting would be a complete understatement I just lud da way Dickerson began the show by announcing "Vail thought I held out fo da money And with those words Dickerson improved his chances of signing a contract with rap music mogul Master and ushered in the amateur era of "MNF" an era in my opinion that make it through the entire 2000 season being top hard on Dickerson new team of talking heads got off to tire kind of start that doomed Magic Johnson's TV talk -show ca In fact if you looking at vour television you might have Wirh a predictably boring Patri ots rout of the rebuilding 49ers se K-S1ATE C-3 WHITLOCK C-7.