Raiders fire coach Allen
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders have fired coach Dennis Allen four games into his third season.
The decision was announced Monday night, soon after the Raiders (0-4) returned from London where they lost their 10th straight game dating to last season, 34-14 to the Miami Dolphins. The firing was first reported by Fox Sports.
Allen was the first head coach hired by Oakland after the death of longtime owner Al Davis. His 8-28 record is the worst for the franchise since before Davis arrived in 1963.
An announcement on the interim coach will come Tuesday.
Cardinals RB Dwyer formally charged
PHOENIX — Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer has been formally charged with assaulting his wife in two arguments in July at their Phoenix apartment.
An indictment publicly released late Friday charges Dwyer with felony aggravated assault and eight misdemeanors.
Investigators say Dwyer broke his wife’s nose during a July 21 argument and engaged in a dispute the following day in which he punched his wife and threw a shoe at his 17-month-old son, who wasn’t injured.
Dwyer had been booked on suspicion of assaulting his son, but the indictment doesn’t charge him with crimes related to the child.
Autopsy: LB Belcher had brain damage
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An autopsy performed a year after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his baby’s mother and himself found the 25-year-old sustained the same kind of brain damage that has turned up in other NFL players.
Belcher fatally shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins on Dec. 1, 2012, in the couple’s Kansas City home before driving to Arrowhead Stadium and killing himself in front of the team’s general manager and head coach.
The autopsy found signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease found in athletes and others with a history of repetitive brain injuries.
The Associated Press