Saturday afternoon's rain gave a dual nature to the racetrack at Dodge City Raceway Park for that evening's races.
    Dodge City Harley Davidson sprint driver Jason Martin maneuvered his way through a significantly slippery track during heat races that turned into a sticky, speedy course during his feature win.
    The Liberal native started the 25-lap sprint car main event from row five and wove his way through traffic all evening long. Two key cautions also played a role in Martin's win.

Born into a family of soccer players, Ezequiel Alvarez Jr. is steadily approaching the threshold of a professional career in the sport.
    The 15-year-old Dodge City boy's father, Ezequiel Sr., coaches the adult soccer league team Rio Grande. His brother, Adrian, started playing in Dodge City's Multicultural Soccer League for children when he was 6 and is still playing today.

Most teenagers dream of getting a car for their 16th birthday, but not Levi Shirley.
    Since Shirley's early teen years, all he has dreamed of owning is his own rock crawler.
    The Dodge City native is now 16 and drives a 1987 pickup (that's five years older than he is) on the weekdays, but his weekend rig is his pride and joy. He and his father, Brian have, since 2006, dived head first into the extreme-sports world by becoming part of the Xtreme Rock Racing Association.
    In 2006, Brian was a co-driver in a two-seat rig. When his partner chose not to return to the association the following year, Brian got his own rig and joined the XRRA. After founding his Lucky Dog Racing team, he began traveling across the country eight weekends out of the year to compete with other gearheads-turned-rock climbers.

Through 4 of 19 medal events Tuesday
38 of 53 total medal events

Dodge City native Tara Goedeken and her nine Team Kansas teammates completed day one of the Fore State Tournament at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. Monday. Team Kansas sat in second place, 1 1/2 points behind first-place Team Oklahoma at the end of the team portion of the competition.

Mother Nature put a damper on Monster Energy drink night at Dodge City Raceway Park. Rain ended the races just before the feature events were scheduled to get underway
    IMCA Monster Modifieds headlined the program with United Wireless IMCA Stock cars, NAPA Thunders, and Hornets rounding out the lineup. Dodge City Harley Davidson Sprints were a late addition to the program by way of invitation.

 I had it.
    With Sergio Garcia in the lead of the PGA Championship for most of Sunday, I began to draft the now-that-Sergio-won-the-PGA-who-is-the-best-golfer-without-a-major column. Would it be Adam Scott? Stewart Cink? Luke Donald? Maybe Stuart Appleby?

Over the weekend of Saturday, July 19, the Dodge/Cimarron Swim Meet
swam against all the teams in WKSC (Western Kansas Swim Club) in Garden
City. In this two-day event, swimmers swam all the events in which
they had earned a qualifying time throughout the season.