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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) The Los Angeles Rams have given coach Jeff Fisher a contract extension. Rams spokesman Artis Twyman confirmed the move before Sunday's game against the New England Patriots. The deal was first reported by the NFL Network, which said it was a two-year extension through 2018. Twyman said he...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) The Buffalo Bills have promoted tight end Gerald Christian from the practice squad. According to the team's website, Buffalo's starting tight end, Charles Clay, did not travel with the team to Oakland on Saturday because of the expected birth of his child. Clay did not practice...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Chiefs wide receiver Jeremy Maclin will miss his fourth straight game Sunday at Atlanta, while cornerback Phillip Gaines was added to the injury report as questionable with a knee injury.Maclin had been questionable with a lingering groin injury on the final injury report Friday. The Chiefs...

HARVEY, La. (AP) A road rage incident possibly sparked by a driver cutting off another on a nearby bridge spiraled into a shooting that left an ex-NFL player dead, authorities said, amid criticism the shooter was allowed to go free. Joe McKnight, 28, was shot Thursday afternoon in Terrytown, across...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) The AFC South is up for grabs and the Indianapolis Colts are hanging in despite an up-and-down season. The playoff run begins now for Andrew Luck and Co., with a game Monday night against the lowly New York Jets, who are simply playing out the string...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Dez Bryant and the Dallas Cowboys are on the verge of the team's longest winning streak in any form - better than the carry-over run in 1968-69 after already topping the playoff-included surge from the proud franchise's first Super Bowl-winning season in 1971. There's something else a...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Saints coach Sean Payton has experienced clutch envy while studying the Lions this season. It's got nothing to do with fashionable, hand-held bags, but everything to do with Detroit's repeated triumphs in close contests. ''Listen, I'm jealous,'' said Payton, whose team has lost five games by six or...

CLEVELAND (AP) There's nothing Joe Thomas hasn't experienced during a stormy decade with the Cleveland Browns.Amid the firings, the hirings, the draft busts, the regime changes, the mistakes, the quarterback conundrum, the losses and, oh yes, Johnny Football, Thomas, a once-in-a-generation left tackle, has personified class and cornerstone consistency...

ATLANTA (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons have found different ways to win despite ranking near the bottom of the league in yards allowed.Those winning formulas will be tested when the two teams currently on pace for the playoffs meet Sunday. The Chiefs (8-3) rank 28th in total...

PITTSBURGH (AP) Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning are inextricably linked. Taken 11 picks apart in the 2004 NFL draft, the two quarterbacks have spent the last dozen years watching each other from afar, using the other's success as a measuring stick of their own accomplishments.The resumes are nearly identical....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Spending just a year around players like Derek Carr and Khalil Mack was enough for Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander to see that the Raiders were on the verge of turning things around in coach Jack Del Rio's second season in Oakland.''That was one of the main...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Kyle Wilber came to his locker to start getting dressed when a hoard of media gathered around him.''They must think I'm Dak,'' Wilber said, referring to rookie quarterback Dak Prescott. This time, a third-string linebacker that has bounced from position to position during five years in Dallas took...