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Chargers Blitz Raiders, 34-7

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The Associated Press

Published: December 5, 2008

Updated: 12/05/2008 01:00 am

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Chargers finally looked like world-beaters. It's probably too late.

LaDainian Tomlinson scored on a 3-yard run against his favorite punching bag and Philip Rivers threw three touchdown passes, including a 59-yarder to Vincent Jackson, to give the Chargers a 34-7 victory against the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night.

It was San Diego's 11th straight win against their archrivals in a series dating to the birth of the AFL in 1960.

The Chargers (5-8) snapped a three-game losing streak and won for just the second time in seven games. Once considered favorites to reach the Super Bowl, they're still going to need a miracle to reach the playoffs. They trail Denver by 21/2 games in the AFC West, and the Broncos have four to play.

DOLPHINS: Receiver Chris Hannon joined Miami off waivers from the San Francisco 49ers. He takes the roster spot of guard Justin Smiley, who was placed on injured reserve after breaking his ankle Sunday against St. Louis.

GIANTS: Antonio Pierce and the doctor who treated his Giants teammate Plaxico Burress after he accidentally shot himself at a Manhattan nightclub will talk to investigators today.

Pierce and Josyann Abisaab will be accompanied by their lawyers when they meet with the authorities, NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne said. It is unclear when and where the parties will meet.

The authorities are especially interested in why neither Pierce, who drove Burress to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, nor Abisaab called police to report the shooting early Saturday. Abisaab has since been suspended for not reporting the gunshot injury, as required by law.

LEGAL: A federal judge will be asked to decide today whether five suspended NFL players deserve a chance to play this weekend.

At issue is whether the league had a duty to notify its players and their union that a dietary supplement the five took contained a banned ingredient. The NFL Players Association argues in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the NFL knew about the tainted supplement but failed to share that information with players whose careers were on the line. The union filed the lawsuit to block the suspensions of five of the six players who were benched this week for violating the league's anti-doping policy. The union wants Kevin Williams and Pat Williams of the Vikings, and Charles Grant, Deuce McAllister and Will Smith of the Saints, to be eligible to play Sunday.

SAINTS: Placed safety Kevin Kaesviharn on injured reserve with a neck injury team officials described as a stinger or pinched nerve. The Saints filled his spot on the roster by signing linebacker Tearrius George off Dallas' practice squad.

TITANS: Backup quarterback Vince Young was sidelined for practice again Thursday because of an infected right thumb, while starting cornerbacks Nick Harper (ankle) and Cortland Finnegan (hamstring) also sat out for a second straight day.

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