The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 37

'V 1 vr V' 1 -V V-- -V 1 TllURSDAY AUGUST! 2008 IhntiHi IMHiilk ill) 0 UlMJgl) -W i-r 19 1 CKETSfORJHISfALUS BORDERWAR FOOTBALuGAME ARE G0INGFAS1 D4 BEiJING OLYMPICS Americans pick up more swimming hware of his own 1 If NASCAR powon cm got caslnohotol a second net will Only com to Kansu Speedway By randy cpyrrz Th KAmasCKy Star Less Fiance Kennedy president' of In-teruational Speedway Corporation should have the votes to bring a second NASCAR Sprint Cup race to Kansas City she needs now is for the Kansas Facing and Gaming Commission to approve a $700 nnUkul hotel and casino plan proposed by Kansas Speedway 'CASINO and lie Cordish DETAILS Morton the i- Kennedy told the brbDosed casino commission on hotel I Cl Wiednesday at Kan-sas City Kansas BOWYER Community Cdlege ON BUBBLE that if it Selects foe Clint Bowyef Hard Rock Hotel and hppes to boost rjfinn over three hb position in foe other casino 'els'- for- County she would askfoe NASCAR Board of Directors for a second Sprint Cup weekend at Kansas Speedway And who comprises foe five-person Board of Directors? Kennedy her brother NASCAR chairman of the board Brian Fiance her unde' NASCAR vice-chair' man fun France and two of their trusted executives NASCAR president Mike SEE NASCAR D4 By HECHELLE VOEPEL Th IteWM City Star'' BELNNG Maybe it diditt match his astonishing relay leg eariier thia week fiat sheer drama But the race that Jason Lezak swam diis morning was very important to him too He ended tqi with a bronze in the 100-meter freest'-with Frenchman Alain Benuud winning die gold Lezak has been Relay for Ikam USA but this was his first individual medal at the Olympics been driving me thc last four years" said Lezak uhose 4Z67Mpnd time trailed Bernard (4Z21) and Australia's Ea-' mon Sullivan (4732) "Going into' these (nqcs I was shooting for the gold medal but to win any medal feels really good It feels like' everydiing done over my ca-' reer has paid offT It was Bernard that Lezak caught and Out-touched Monday in the 400 relay for foe United vic- tory preserving Michael Phelps -chances at eiit gold medals lb-day (Wednesday night -in the United States) Phelps have a final so it was the rare day so for here diat he hasn't picked up any hardware SEESWINNINE i DIO -J- ft I 1 MIKE RANSDEU I THE KANSAS CITY STAR Playing football and writing music can put a smila on Ttnk Tylar's faca MOM INSIDE I Friends and famHy ara stiR in shock owe Todd Bachman1 stabbing death In China JM (Buzz and todayVFV DE IlLS baseball team loses' Its -''openjng game D9 American track and field athletes are gearing up D9 1 Go to KaumCHyxoiii far video news results -v blogs TV listings and Interactive guides DAVID JL VHILUP I THE ASSOCIATE? PRESS 1 American Aaron Pelrsol who cruised to the 100 backstroke gold earlier In the week easily won his semifinal heat of the 200 backstroke with a tlmo of (5526 "Pretty much perfoct" ho said NADAI FFDFRFR DKl'lNmiLY-BELONG JOE POSNANSKI the world playing Augusta it would have been quite the As it turned out it was too much ofa political hot po-tato because of Augusta Na- ei shaky BhjinbI When it comes to what sports belong the Olympics I believe in a simple rule: No sport that has a champion- -1 ship bigger than the Olympics should be allowed in Dafanslva tacfcla has always had a passlbn for writing lyrics flfqp With pootry and now rap songs 1 By KENT BABB Tha Kansas aty Star RIVER FAILS Wls I Tknk lyleT has something on his mind He doesn't want to -lose foe words so he grabs his phone Tyler 306-pound Chiefs defensive tarkle is punching letters into his Hack-Berry writing lyrics to a rap song he'd like to one day marry with music Football is his jobbut music is his passion 1 still find myself going to the studio -afterpractice" Tlef says that stu- dio door closes like freedom again I can lock myself in my own world" Locking himself away from reality was 1 vfoat compelled lyier to begin writing poetry 12 years ago His mother worked three jobs in Fayetteville NXl 'but coukbrt always male ends meet When foe water bill went unpaid foe 11-year-old history with diversity So the whole Tike golf You know in 1996 they thing was scrapped I think in the were going to enter golf as a dem- long run that was a good thing XFf GROSS GETTY IMAGES has the British and US Opens golf Switzerland's Roger Fadarar -v got to carry his country's flag SEE TENNIS D9 during the opening ceremony ment at Augusta NationaL That would have meant vyomen playing at Augusta hackers from all over OtrlVIER MqfiM AFPDCTTV IMAGES Sprtrt RalM Nadal (MO could be headed for another match agalnat Roger FEdartr -k-- -i-A (i SEE CHIEFS Dll as.