Week 14 NFL picks: Cowboys-Steelers a classic showdown (SportingNews.com)

Classic uniforms, in an old-school Super Bowl matchup of five-time Super Bowl-winning franchises.

Plenty of bad blood circulating around NFL (Yahoo! Sports)

From Bart Scott and Hines Ward to Joey Porter vs. everyone, there's a lot of animosity in the NFL.

Losses take zip out of Raiders-Chargers rivalry (AP)

The San Diego Chargers normally are stoked to be facing the Oakland Raiders -- a team they've beaten 10 straight times. LaDainian Tomlinson should be geeked to be facing his favorite punching bag. Instead, there's a gloom around the Chargers -- and with good reason. Once considered Super Bowl favorites, the Chargers (4-8) have lost three straight and five of six.

Chargers Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

The feeling might be the woeful Chargers want nothing to do with another game so soon after their fifth loss in five outings.

That would be an incorrect assumption, as the Chargers are eager to welcome the Oakland Raiders to Qualcomm Stadium on Thursday night.

"Man, words can't even explain (it)," tight end Antonio Gates said. "It's been rough these last couple of weeks, particularly last week."

Last Sunday brought with it the team's eighth loss in 12 games, all but eliminating any hopes for a playoff berth. The reeling Chargers trail the AFC West-leading Denver Broncos by three games with four to play.

If the fat lady isn't singing, she is at least clearing her throat.

NFL offers first live game broadcast in 3-D (AP)

In broadcasting the world's first live 3-D football game to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston on Thursday evening, the NFL promises an "up close, personal, visceral" experience that could open a new revenue stream for the league. The screenings for team owners, producers and journalists will use technology developed by 3ality Digital, a Burbank, Calif.-based company whose major investor...

Bolts so bad they’ve let Hochuli off the hook (AP)

Somewhere, Ed Hochuli must be smiling. The once-reviled referee can hardly be blamed anymore for derailing the San Diego Chargers' season with a blown call that cost the Bolts a victory at Denver in their second game. No, the Chargers have done a mighty fine job of that all by themselves. With four games left, they're 4-8 and three games behind the Denver Broncos in the AFC West, the NFL's most...

NFL Power Poll: It’s the Giants, then the rest (SportingNews.com)

At this time last season, the New England Patriots were just a month away from their eventual undefeated...

Seeing through Savage (Yahoo! Sports)

Browns GM Phil Savage has no qualms about throwing coach Romeo Crennel under the bus to save his job.

All but finished, Bolts host Raiders on Thursday (AP)

The Oakland Raiders are coming to town, which is one of the only things that can put any kind of spark in the San Diego Chargers' otherwise lost season. The Chargers (4-8) were all but eliminated from playoff contention on Sunday, when they lost 22-16 at home to the Atlanta Falcons while the Denver Broncos (7-5) were winning their third straight road game, 34-17 against the New York Jets.

Pats to play Bucs in London in 2009 (AP)

The New England Patriots will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next season at Wembley Stadium, the third straight year the NFL will stage a regular-season game in the British capital. The game will be played Oct. 25. The Bucs will be listed as the home team, giving up a game in Tampa. "Over the past two years, we have seen firsthand the excitement that exists for our sport in the UK," NFL commissioner...