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Chiefs camp brings bucks to River Falls
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RIVER FALLS, Wis. — The Kansas City Chiefs pump about $2 million into the local economy when the team holds its training camp in this northwestern Wisconsin community.
This year's four-week camp probably will generate even more than that, predicted Larry Swain, a community development specialist with the University of Wisconsin-River Falls' Rural Development Institute.
Swain surveys out-of-town visitors to the Chiefs camp each year to measure their impact on the local economy. The camp drew about 17,500 visitors this year, nearly a third of those being Chiefs fans from Missouri, Kansas and Iowa.
"They're coming to see the Chiefs," Swain said. "The Chiefs fans are kind of like (Green Bay) Packers fans and University of Nebraska fans. They're purist football fans.
This year, UW-River Falls worked in partnership with the St. Croix Valley Tourism Alliance to promote the Chiefs camp.
They come in full regalia."
A camp Internet Web site has registered 1.8 million visits since going online July 1, said Mark Kinders, director of the university's news bureau.
The university and the tourism alliance sent out more than 10,000 packets of information about local attractions to Chiefs fans in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. Kinders said.
"These are visitors who are spending a lot of time up here, and they're spending a lot of money," Kinders said.
Swain said the average out-of-town visitor to Chiefs camp stays in River Falls 2.3 days and spends $64 in the city each day.
The Chiefs have signed on for another two years in the city, with an option for a third.
McGwire gets breather from afternoon game
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa.
Mark
FITTLE McGwire, ahead of Roger Maris' record homer run pace with 53 homers and more than a month to play, was not in the starting lineup for the St. Louis Cardinals' afternoon game yesterday in Pittsburgh, Pa
Mark McGwire:
Took day off the
field yesterday.
Despite scoring home runs in the first two games of the series and six times in five days, McGwire and manager Tony La Russa decided a week ago McGwire would not start yesterday.
"Hey, if I can get a day off, I'm going to take a day off," he said.
McGwire also did not start the
first game Friday night in New York as the Cardinals played doubleheaders on consecutive days. After yesterday, McGwire expects to sit out only one more of the Cardinals' 31 remaining games as he pursues Maris' record of 61 homers, set in 1961.
The Cardinals, now playing a stretch of 18 games in 16 days, do not have a scheduled off day until Sept. 3.
McGwire, who did not take batting practice before homering Saturday and Sunday against the Pirates, planned to take batting practice yesterday, but it was canceled by a pregame rainstorm.
After McGwire homered on 11 consecutive batting practice swings Friday night in New York, fans jammed the left-field stands in Three Rivers Stadium Saturday and Sunday, only to be disappointed when McGwire did not hit.
Asked if he felt any obligation to take batting practice, McGwire said, "No," explaining later it was more important for him to rest periodically during the 162-game season.
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