Fans sit inside Arrowhead Stadium before a National Football League game Dec. 12. Kansas legislators were close this past week to approving a measure authorizing sports betting and wanted most of the state's revenues from it to go to efforts to lure professional football's Kansas City, Missouri-based Chiefs to the Kansas side of the metropolitan area. (Charlie Riedel/AP FILE PHOTO)
By John Hanna, Andy Tsubasa Field and Dave Skretta THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators were close Wednesday to approving a measure…