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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009
OLYMPICS
Organizers promise to pay if committee selects city
CHICAGO — The head of the Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics sought to calm taxpayers and the City Council about being on the hook if the city wins the games.
Organizers told the Olympic Committee that they would come up with an additional $500 million in private insurance and that Mayor Richard Daley would sign a contract requiring the city to take responsibility for the games.
NBA
Retired star will remain free on bail despite request
SOMERVILLE, N.J. — Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will remain free on bail after a judge rejected a request to revoke the bail and send him to prison for a shooting seven years ago.
Prosecutors asked the judge to reconsider the sentencing delay due to Williams' recent run-ins with the law, saying he has become "unpredictable."
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Owner wins for first time in decade
NASCAR
BY JENNA FRYER
Associated Press
SONOMA, Calif. — It took eight winless seasons for Richard Petty to realize he was no longer NASCAR's best driver.
Kasey Kahne, center, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Toyota/Save Mart 350 auto race at Infineon Racingway in Sonoma, Calif. June 21. At left is Richard Petty, who was in victory lane as a car owner for the first time in more than a decade.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
No matter how bad things got at Petty Enterprises, The King always believed he had another trip to Victory Lane in his near future.
"I drove and I won in '84, and then didn't win anymore. It finally dawned on me 'You're not good enough doing your job to win anymore race, so you'd better get out," he said.
Petty refused to believe it was his last victory celebration.
"Just because we didn't do it yesterday doesn't mean we can't do it today," he said.
He did, after the 1992 season, transitioning into management at Petty Enterprises. There were three wins in the first nine seasons, but none since John Andretti's April 1999 victory at Martinsville Speedway.
Petty did on Sunday, when Kasey Kahne took him to Victory Lane for the first time in 364 races.
It was a breakthrough victory for Richard Petty Motorsports, the team born in January from the merger between Gillett-Evernham
Motorsports and Petty Enterprises.
Kahne's win proved that the No.9 team is still a legitimate contender, he's still a great race car driver and RPM's employees are still working double-time to produce a competitive product.
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