The Raiders Thursday began winding down their practice in preparation for Saturday's exhibition opener against the San Francisco 49ers, and Coach Tom Flores gave an informal state of the team address.
Jessie Hester, the Raiders' No. 1 draft choice, made the unofficial opening day lineup Thursday.
The Raiders have announced that Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers is sold out.
It's about time someone commented on the idiotic National Football League rule that the game must be sold out by the Thursday preceding the scheduled Sunday game or it cannot be shown on local television.
autobiographical in nature, but its central theme likely would be different were Winslow's life not so intertwined with Raider linebacker Jeff Barnes'.
Marc Wilson's old friends in the Coliseum crowd of 52,153 jolted him again Saturday night, but he got up and shut them up.
Raider halfback Marcus Allen, who has a sprained right ankle, didn't practice Thursday.
The missing Raider, starting left guard Charley Hannah, is still home in Tampa, Fla., waiting for the Raiders to increase their offer.
Linebacker Bob Nelson, who is still unsigned, left the Raiders' camp Saturday.
Raider training will enter a new era today when the team, having won enough court decisions to
On Monday, the Raiders found one more thing they didn't like about Sunday's exhibition loss to the Washington Redskins.
Dear Answer Man . . .
A Los Angeles police detective assisting in a drug raid on a Van Nuys house Wednesday was pushed against a wall by a dog and was accidently shot in the thigh by another officer aiming at the animal, police said.
Into the hallowed ranks of the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia 76ers of the mid-'70s, two of the greatest talking teams of all time, step the Raiders.
As letters between his office and the management of Lucky Stores, his latest acquisition target, were passing by ZapMail through the cross-continental ether on Thursday, Asher B.
The Raiders have won a football game. Finally.
The $1.5-million civil trial against former Raider defensive end John Matuszak began, with the
Another Raider is leaving the lineup, courtesy of the Seattle Seahawks' pass rush, but this one isn't because of injury.
Greg Pruitt, who broke the National Football League record for punt-return yardage in a season at age 32 but had his problems at 33, retired Friday at 34.
For the Raiders, Saturday's exhibition loss to the Miami Dolphins at least got no worse on Sunday.