Thursday's Sports In Brief
NFL
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) After 368 days and 16 straight losses, the Oakland Raiders finally had something to celebrate.
Rookie Derek Carr threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to James Jones with 1:42 remaining, and the Raiders got one last defensive stop to snap a 16-game losing streak with a 24-20 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night.
Oakland's Latavius Murray ran for two touchdowns and 112 yards on just four carries before leaving the game with a concussion. The Raiders (1-10) built a 14-point lead, but needed a 17-play, 80-yard drive led by Carr to secure its first win since beating Houston on Nov. 17, 2013.
The Raiders became just the third team since the merger to beat a first-place team for their first win after losing at least 10 games to start the season. Indianapolis did it against Green Bay in 1997 and Buffalo did it to Dallas in 1984.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Snowed out in Buffalo, the Bills are heading to Detroit to play their ''home'' game against the New York Jets on Monday night.
The NFL announced the location and date of the game after a severe lake-effect storm paralyzed much of the Buffalo region. More than 5 feet of snow has fallen in the Buffalo area since Monday, and another 1 to 3 feet was projected to fall by Friday.
The storm forced the Bills to cancel their past two days of practice because of impassable roads and driving bans in Orchard Park and many communities neighboring Ralph Wilson Stadium. The team intends to travel to Detroit on Friday and practice at the Lions' facility.
The Lions are at New England on Sunday.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Adrian Peterson says he realizes moving on from the Minnesota Vikings might be best for both him and the team.
In an interview published Thursday by USA Today, Peterson said he believes the coaches and players on the team are fully behind him but that feelings in the organization toward him are mixed after he was charged with felony child abuse in Texas for using a wooden switch to discipline his 4-year-old son. He pleaded no contest Nov. 4 to misdemeanor reckless assault.
Peterson said he spoke last week with his son for the first time in five months. He told the newspaper he ''won't ever use a switch again,'' that he has been seeing a therapist and meeting a pastor certified in counseling near his Houston-area home, and has learned other ways to discipline his children.
On paid leave from the Vikings for more than two months, Peterson was informed this week by the NFL he will be suspended without pay for at least the rest of the season. The NFL Players Association has appealed the punishment on his behalf, and Peterson will continue to draw his salary on the exempt list until the appeal is resolved.
BASEBALL
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Praising the transition as quick and orderly, Bud Selig announced that baseball owners unanimously approved a five-year term for Rob Manfred, who will succeed the longtime commissioner early next year.
Selig spoke at the conclusion of two days of meetings in Kansas City, where owners discussed a variety of issues that included pace of play, instant replay and domestic violence initiatives.
Selig will chair his final owners' meeting in January in Arizona.
Manfred, who has worked for MLB since 1998, was chosen to replace the 80-year-old Selig in August over Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner. He will assume office Jan. 25.
One of Manfred's mandates will be to attract young fans back to baseball, and many believe that will involve speeding up the game. The average time of a nine-inning game increased from 2 hours, 33 minutes, in 1981 to a record 3:02 this year, with postseason games stretching nearly 4 hours.
NBA
NEW YORK (AP) - The executive director of the NBA Players Association said the suspension given to Charlotte's Jeffery Taylor by Commissioner Adam Silver is ''excessive, without precedent and a violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.''
Michele Roberts adds that the union is ready to file an immediate appeal, but that the choice is Taylor's.
Silver suspended Taylor for 24 games without pay on Wednesday after the forward pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor domestic violence assault and malicious destruction of hotel property. Taylor will lose nearly $200,000 of his $915,000 salary this season.
Taylor will get credit for the 11 games he has missed, and will sit out an additional 13 for a total which is slightly more than one-fourth of the league's 82-game schedule.
GOLF
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Stacy Lewis was three shots out of the lead and one step closer to the largest payoff in women's golf at the CME Group Tour Championship.
Lewis overcame the kind of tension she typically feels on the weekend at majors. She held it together with her short game, made a 25-foot eagle putt late in her opening round and wound up with a 3-under 69 to trail Julieta Granada by three shots.
There are two tournaments in one at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort.
Granada played bogey-free in a tough wind on the Tiburon Course for a 66 that gave her a two-shot lead over Sandra Gal in the LPGA Tour's final tournament.
The other event is the Race to CME Globe, which pays a $1 million bonus to the winner. Only the top nine players in the standings can win it.
AUTO RACING
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) - Hendrick Motorsports announced a three-year contract extension that keeps Kasey Kahne in the No. 5 Chevrolet through the 2018 Sprint Cup season.
The deal removes Kahne from the free-agent market and raises questions about where Rick Hendrick plans to put Nationwide Series champion Chase Elliott in his stacked lineup. Kahne's current contract expired after next season, and many believed he'd have to improve his results to remain with the organization.
Hendrick is making changes to help Kahne, who needed a late win at Atlanta in August to make the 16-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. He was eliminated from the Chase after the second round and finished 15th in the final standings.
HMS this week said Keith Rodden, a longtime engineer on Kahne's team, was returning to the organization as crew chief of the No. 5 car. Kenny Francis, who had been crew chief for Kahne since the final race of the 2005 season - the second-longest active driver/crew chief pairing in the Cup Series - was moved into a design and development role for the entire organization.