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American Football: Favre content as streak ends
Favre fought through the sorrow to toss a career-best four first-half touchdown passes and lead the Packers over the Oakland Raiders. The 11-time Pro Bowl quarterback started his first game on Sept.leading the Green Bay…
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George Blanda: American footballer who played in the NFL at the age of 48
Blanda, already 43, replaced an injured Daryle Lamonica at quarterback and threw three touchdown passes to rally the Oakland Raiders to a31-14 win over In 1966 the Oilers, feeling Blanda was too old, dropped him, leaving him… -
American Football: Two Smiths in shadow of great names of past
His main job could be to hand the ball to Gore against a Denver defense that gave up five rushing touchdowns last weekend in a humiliating 59-14 home defeat by the Oakland Raiders – the only team to lose to the 49ers. -
Stan Hey: 6-5 Against
Last year a 6-0 start withered away, and last week they were stiffed 59-14 by the Oakland Raiders. Both clubs have enjoyed success, the 49ers having won the Super Bowl five times, the Broncos twice; great pasts but not much… -
American football: Broncos and 49ers cross the pond to play for pride
Although they are being forced to give a debut to Troy Smith, their third-choice quarterback, San Francisco have exciting playmakers in Vernon Davis, the tight end, and Frank Gore, the running back who is expected to enjoy… -
Jack Tatum: American footballer famed and feared for his heavy hitting
Tatum, the Oakland Raiders' safety, was approaching from behind him, the situation when his reputation would cause many players to "hear footsteps". Tatum's collision with Stingley came in a pre-season "exhibition" game in… -
American Football: Tucking into touchdowns at the Turkey Day feast
For perennial cellar-dwellers Oakland Raiders there is reason to be cheerful, because their quarterback JaMarcus Russell, the No 1 draft pick in 2007, has been benched after looking anything but. It perfectly captures the… -
Thanksgiving: a day of travel and television
Detroit Lions At halftime, Motown artists will perform classic hits in a 50th anniversary tribute4:15 pm EST on CBS: Oakland Raiders vs. (Relaxnews) - The biggest travel weekend each year in the US happens during the five-day… -
Brian Viner: Team spirits from beyond the grave
Packers quarterback Brett Favre – who tomorrow returns to Green Bay for the first time as a Minnesota Vikings player, which is not unlike Michael Owen returning to Anfield in a Manchester United shirt – contributed one… -
Can You Dig It? Black in vogue
More controversial was actor Fred Williamson, a former American football star with the Oakland Raiders, who reinvented himself in the role of Nigger Charley, a character based in the Deep South of the 1850s prior to the…
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Broadcaster John Madden retires
He began his pro football career as a linebacker coach at Oakland in 1967 and was named head coach two years later, at 33 the youngest coach in what was then the American Football League. Madden led the Raiders to their… -
NFL: Cardinals and Steelers arrive for Super Bowl
Oakland Raiders were partying across New Orleans. By game time, the Eagles could barely breathe, let along play football, and they were thrashed by the loose Raiders. It's a great moment," said safety Adrian Wilson, the… -
Al Davis: Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Recent times haven't exactly seen Oakland Raiders being very great, though. He's a bombastic Brooklyn boy, who has spent half a century as one of the most recognisable power brokers in US sport and, as the old cliché goes,… -
Obituaries in brief
He transformed Itau into the second-largest private-sector bank in Brazil, with 2,800 branches.Setubal also was mayor of Sao Paulo between 1975 and 1979 and was Brazil's foreign minister in 1985 and 1986, when he was involved… -
Super Bowl XLII: Moss ready to finish journey from misfit to Super hero
I really thought something special could happen in Oakland, but things started getting in the way with coaching and play-calling and players, so the team concept was screwed up. Raiders. The desperate general manager, Al…