San Diego Chargers News

One LT led San Diego's comeback. Another LT thwarted it. Lawrence Tynes hit a career-long 53-yard field goal with six seconds left, atoning for a first-quarter miss and giving the Kansas City Chiefs a 30-27 victory over the Chargers on Sunday. LaDainian Tomlinson figured in two fourth-quarter TD throws, one as the receiver and one as the passer, as the Chargers (4-2) came back from an early 17-point deficit to ...

Chargers practice squad cornerback Markus Curry was released by the team Monday, just hours after he was arrested on suspicion of committing domestic violence. It was the fifth run-in with the law by a Chargers player since April, and the first time the team reacted by dropping the player. Curry was arrested following a traffic stop, according to San Diego Police Department spokeswoman Monica Munoz. He was booked into San ...

Philip Rivers performed a trick that might have amazed Houdini. He made ``Martyball'' disappear in a flurry of passes. Rivers threw two touchdown passes, including a 22-yarder to All-Pro tight end Antonio Gates midway through the third quarter that lifted the San Diego Chargers to a 23-13 victory over the slumping Super Bowl champions. Gates' catch capped a remarkable 91-yard drive during which Rivers, in his first year as a ...

Turns out David Letterman isn't the only guy with a Top 10 list. Ben Roethlisberger has one, too. Roethlisberger's list isn't as witty or comical as Letterman's _ unless, of course, the slapstick-like offensive play of the winless Oakland Raiders is taken into account. It exists only in his mind, and it includes the 10 teams that passed him over in the 2004 draft. San Diego. Oakland. Arizona. New York ...

Pittsburgh's bye week came at the right time for the defending NFL champions, losers of two of their first three games. The slow start came with Ben Roethlisberger considered ``rusty,'' not a designation for the official injury list but one used to describe the early-season play of the QB. Now the Steelers have a trip to San Diego, which lost last week for the first time, allowing the Ravens and ...

Chargers safety Terrence Kiel, facing five felony drug charges, went through his first full-scale practice since being arrested last week at team headquarters. Free on a US$160,000 bond, Kiel practised Wednesday and could return to the starting lineup on Sunday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer said. ``It feels good to be running around,'' Kiel said. ``It's always been a blessing to play football. Any time I ...

Chargers safety Terrence Kiel pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges he shipped bottles of codeine-based cough syrup to Texas. Kiel, 25, a starter with the Chargers, faces a maximum of seven years and four months in state prison if convicted of all five felony drug counts against him, according to Deputy District Attorney James Fontaine. Kiel was arrested Sept. 26 in the locker room after authorities turned up at ...

This time, a field goal wasn't going to be good enough. Steve McNair had to take the Baltimore Ravens into the end zone for a victory, and he had to cover 60 yards without any timeouts. McNair brought the unbeaten Ravens back for the second week in a row, throwing a 10-yard pass to Todd Heap with 34 seconds left to defeat the San Diego Chargers 16-13 Sunday. The Ravens ...

Chargers strong safety Terrence Kiel admitted to shipping two parcels of prescription cough syrup to Texas, Drug Enforcement Agency officials said Wednesday, a day after the player was arrested at team headquarters. While Kiel did not tell the DEA his motive, the agency in Texas has found widespread abuse of codeine-based cough syrup mixed with soft drinks or drugs and referred to as ``lean,'' said John S. Fernandes, the special ...

Kicker Nate Kaeding signed a six-year contract on Monday that will keep him with the San Diego Chargers through 2012. Kaeding's current deal expires at the end of the season. Without the new deal in place, Kaeding could have become a restricted free agent. In his third season, Kaeding has made all six of his field-goal attempts and all seven of his PAT attempts for the Chargers (2-0), who were ...