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These days, when you're watching a four o'clock Sunday NFL game, the TV network stays with the game, overtime or not, until it's over. Not so back in 1968, and on this day the infamous, "Heidi Game" took place. I remember watching that game with my father, and here's what happened.

The NFL’s slate of Thursday night games kicks off this week with an AFC West tilt. Here’s a preview: Oakland Raiders at San Diego Chargers – 8:20 PM Both teams enter the primetime contest on losing streaks. Oakland (4-4) has lost two games in a row, both to division rivals, after losing starting quarterback Jason Campbell to injury and subsequently acquiring Carson Palmer from Cincinnati... Read M

A week after Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz chased after his San Francisco 49ers counterpart, Jim Harbaugh, Oakland Raiders head coach Hue Jackson had a tense moment with Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley on Sunday.

Hours after the Oakland Raiders topped the Houston Texans for a thrilling 25-20  win on Sunday, speculation swirled around who will run the NFL franchise after the passing of its iconoclastic owner Al Davis, who died Saturday in Oakland at age 82.

Two fans were shot in a Candlestick Park parking lot fight after the 49ers beat the Raiders 17-3 in a preseason game on Saturday. One of the men was seriously wounded. A suspect has been arrested in the attack. The incident should remind some fans of the San Francisco Giants fan who was beaten up by two Dodgers’ fans back in March. And, separately, during Saturday’s football game, 26-year-old man