ALAMEDA — The Oakland Raiders spent the first quarter of the season getting close before finally breaking through for their first win against the Cleveland Browns. A lopsided loss to the Los Angeles Chargers looked like a step back, even if coach Jon Gruden tried to put a positive spin...
Raiders Steal Game From Browns With 45-42 OT Win
OAKLAND — As much as the Oakland Raiders felt like they might have let a couple of winnable games slip away to start this season, they might have stolen one away from the Cleveland Browns to spoil Baker Mayfield's first career start. Derek Carr led a game-tying drive in the...
Carr Leans on Rookie Lessons to Get Past Raiders' Dismal Start
ALAMEDA — Derek Carr has suffered through long losing streaks before. The Oakland Raiders lost their first 10 games during his rookie season in 2014 before winning three of the final six. He believes the lessons he learned then can benefit the Raiders now as they try to shrug off...
Jon Gruden Feeling Heat After 0-3 Start With Raiders
ALAMEDA — The message Jon Gruden delivered when he was introduced at a celebratory news conference announcing his second stint as Oakland Raiders coach has changed. After promising in January to deliver Oakland fans two of the best years of football he could before the team leaves for Las Vegas...
Will Raiders Win Big This Year? It's All About Carr & Gruden.
ALAMEDA — When Jon Gruden was hired for a second stint as Oakland Raiders coach, there were immediately questions about how quarterback Derek Carr would respond to Gruden's intensity, cursing and hands-on approach after four seasons with more low-key coordinators and defensive-minded head coaches. Carr laughed off those doubts, pointing...
Silver & Blackout TV: Why Fresno Can't See Derek Carr in Preseason
For the second year in a row, Derek Carr and the Oakland Raiders will be mostly invisible to Fresno viewers. That is because no TV station in the Fresno market carries Oakland’s preseason games. Unlike the regular season when games are solely produced and broadcast by one of five national...
Carr for Kids: Superstar QB Helps Open Clovis Clinic
Derek Carr paid another visit to a place of great importance in his life — Valley Children’s Hospital. After lifting the spirits of children at the Madera County facility, he helped with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new pediatric clinic in Clovis on Friday. Carr told the familiar story to Central...
Prof Drops Out of Literary Event After Tweeting Barbara Bush Was ‘Amazing Racist’
Randa Jarrar, whose tweet that former first lady Barbara Bush was an "amazing racist" is stirring national outrage, has withdrawn from a planned speaking engagement Saturday at Fresno City College. The school said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon that the "headline speaker for LitHop 2018, Randa Jarrar, has informed...