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Tony Stewart got back to his happy place on Tuesday, in more ways than one. Ryan Getzlaf Jersey.Stewart, who grew up in Rushville, Indiana, and owns a ranch near Columbus, spent much of the day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the track that captivated him as a boy and ultimately motivated him to be a champion racer of both stock cars and Indy cars.The prospect of going to IMS perks up Stewart anytime, even if it means doing hours of media and promotion for the 23rd annual Brickyard 400, set for July 24. But IMS president Doug Boles had a trick up his sleeve this time to make a working day more pleasant: He and the IMS team conceived and built a temporary 3/16-mile dirt track inside Turn 3 of the IMS oval and brought out a handful of USAC Midget cars and drivers for hot laps.Talk about Stewarts happy place.Im addicted, he admitted. As soon as I saw it, I thought, Well, Im going to need to run a couple laps. I knew it was a possibility but I didnt know for sure. I had stuff [a drivers suit and helmet] with me. The worst thing you can do is drop me in the middle of a racetrack ... of course Im going to drive.Theyve been sending me pictures and videos of the progress since Day 1, Stewart added. So Ive been looking forward to this day. Its pretty impressive to be able to do something like this in such a short amount of time.Stewart had actually been talking to Boles on and off for the past three years, having what-if conversations about the possibility of a short track on the IMS grounds. With the popular local driver having announced his retirement at the end of the season from full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition, the opportunity was there for IMS to give the Hoosier native a unique parting gift hes not likely to forget anytime soon.Every year we talk and he said, We could do pavement and it would be fun, but man, you need a dirt track, Boles related. It was a pretty easy decision for us. Tony has meant a lot to the Speedway, not only because hes been able to run both of our big events, but as much as anything because he grew up here. He is pretty vocal in saying that this is his favorite race track and the place hes always wanted to win.So we wanted to have some fun with Tony and our friends at USAC helped us lay this out, he added. This is temporary, but if it makes sense, there may be a day that you see something like this here for special events at the Speedway.For Stewart, it was an opportunity to reconnect with his short track roots in a low-key environment out of the public spotlight.Following the trail blazed by Jeff Gordon a few years earlier, Stewart blitzed the USAC championship trail in the early 1990s, becoming the first driver to win all three Triple Crown championships (Midget, Silver Crown and Sprint) in the same season in 1995. He parlayed that into championship success in the Indy Racing League before switching disciplines to stock car racing in 1999.Now 45, Stewart has become one of NASCARs top stars, winning the Cup series championship three times (2002, 05 and 11) as well as nearly every important stock car race with the exception of the Daytona 500. Hes also a successful team owner, both at the USAC level as well as the co-owner of the Stewart-Haas Racing Cup team that he drives for.But in recent years, he has grown tired of the demands of a modern NASCAR driver. He expressed his unhappiness as recently as two weeks ago, just prior to the surprise victory at Sonoma Raceway that should land him in this years Chase for the Sprint Cup.He has made it clear that even though he is retiring from the Cup series, he clearly still wants to compete somewhere.He always continued to run Sprint and Midget cars on the side throughout his IRL and NASCAR career, and despite a pair of life-altering sprint car accidents in 2013 (when he broke his right leg in an accident at Southern Iowa Speedway) and 2014 (when his car fatally struck driver Kevin Ward Jr. at Canandaigua Motorsports Park, resulting in a lawsuit that remains unsettled), his love for grass-roots racing remains intact.Fallout from the Ward accident, as well as a sand buggy accident in January in which he sustained a broken back, has kept Stewart out of his beloved dirt track cars for nearly two years. Thats why it was such a treat for him to turn laps on the dirt at IMS in a Midget prepared by his old car owner, Keith Kunz.The smile on his face when he stepped out of the No. 71 car normally driven by Carson Macedo said it all. Stewart lapped with former USAC and Indy car driver Sarah Fisher and multiple USAC titleholder Bryan Clauson, running three-wide at one point on the narrow, flat oval.That was fun -- a good time, he exclaimed. It brought back a lot of memories. I havent been in a midget for 2? years and I miss it. The tough part is I dont fit this car very well. These drivers are much smaller than I am. It was great to get back in a Keith Kunz car and I guarantee you it would be fun to do this more often. Bryan was getting around there pretty good.This is the ultimate, he added. We all wish we had this in our backyard to go play. Only six more months and I get to play in these all I want.Stewart remains a staunch supporter of the USAC trail, whether a driver wants to pursue stock cars or Indy cars as a career goal.If you can control a car on a track like this, thats the kind of car control you need to race an Indy car or a stock car around the speedway, he said. The skills that these guys learn and pick up at an early age running these type of cars go a long way.But its hard to get here. I hit the lottery; I got lucky getting my opportunity to come here. Theres a lot of drivers that deserve the chance to come race at Indy and they have the talent to do it.Stewart never accomplished his original goal of winning the Indianapolis 500; his best finish was fifth in 1997. Even though he never got to drink the traditional winners milk, a pair of Brickyard 400 victories (2005 and 07) served as a fair consolation prize.On Tuesday, Boles presented Stewart with a commemorative IMS milk bottle -- filled with dirt from Smokes Turn 3 playground.I dont know if it will taste that good, Stewart quipped. But thats as close as Im going to get to drinking milk. Erik Gudbranson Jersey. Cuban testified Thursday that he was upset when the companys CEO told him news that would reduce the value of his shares, for which hed paid $7.5 million. But he said he did nothing improper when he sold those shares over the next two days. Josh Manson Jersey. -- Three close looks at the bucket, three misses. https://www.cheapducks.com/1147c-sam-ste...-ducks.html.com) - Manchester City midfielder David Silva is expected to miss the next four weeks because of a calf problem. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jacksonvilles turnover differential is a number better suited for the golf course.The Jaguars (2-6) are minus-12 on the season, the worst margin in the NFL and a big reason coach Gus Bradleys team has lost three consecutive games and sits last in the AFC South.Jacksonville found new ways to add to its turnover woes in a 19-14 loss at Kansas City on Sunday. Not only did the Jaguars lose a muffed punt for the third consecutive game, Chris Ivory fumbled crossing the goal line and two defenders collided to prevent what should have been an easy interception.The errors were part of a four-turnover performance and the fourth consecutive game without a takeaway.And they left Bradley scratching his head.We talk about it every day, he said Monday. We show clips every day. We show pictures every day. Maybe its too much.Ivorys fourth-quarter fumble was the only questionable one of the bunch. Trailing 19-7, Ivory lost control as he stretched the ball across the goal line. It was ruled a fumble and a touchback, and replays didnt provide any clear evidence to indicate Ivory had broken the plane before the ball slipped out of his hands.I have to be careful here with this, Bradley said. We get different views than they do. All I can tell you is that the view that we saw, we have an end-zone view (on the coaches tape) that gives you a different look at it. In our mind, when we looked at it, it looked like he crossed it before the ball came out. They dont have that view at that time.The Jaguars might not have even needed that touchdown had it not been for all their other mistakes, especially the turnovers.The other three were equally costly, leading to 13 points for the Chiefs:-Bryan Walters muffed a punt in the first quarter, setting up Kansas Citys first touchdown. Walters special teams miscue was the third in as many games for Jacksonvillee. Troy Terry Jersey. Marqise Lee and Rashad Greene muffed punts against Tennessee and Oakland, respectively. Bradley has no idea who will be his punt returner Sunday against division-leading Houston (5-3).Id like to say open it up for a competition and lets see, Bradley said.-Blake Bortles threw his 10th interception of the season in the second quarter, which put Kansas City in field-goal range and led to a 10-0 deficit. It was another poor decision and poor throw from the third-year pro who spent several days last week working with a mechanics coach . Bortles also overthrew Allen Robinson down the field for a would-be touchdown.-T.J. Yeldon fumbled at the end of a 16-yard run in the third, and the Chiefs hit a 51-yards field goal that made it 13-7.Throw in Jason Myers missed field goal and Allen Hurns dropped fourth-down pass near the goal line, and the Jaguars once again committed more self-inflicted problems than they could overcome.Making matters worse, theyre not creating or even lucking into turnovers on defense or special teams. Although the drought is at four games, it should have ended in the first quarter at Kansas City.On a first-and-15 play from the 42, Nick Foles overthrew Jeremy Maclin down the middle of the field. Jaguars cornerback Prince Amukamara was in position to catch it until he crashed into safety Tashaun Gipson. It didnt cost the Jaguars because Kansas City ended up punting, but it also didnt help the turnover differential.Weve got to have those, Bradley said. You have a chance to go back there and make a play and you get one thrown up to you. I dont know what to say on that one other than catch the ones thrown to you.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '