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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Kyle Shanahan and Mike McDaniel spent years together scheming ways to exploit NFL defenses. Now split apart with McDaniel in his second season coaching Miami and Shanahan in Year 7 in San Francisco, the two offensive coaches have their teams threatening records with their early season domination. The

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Nobody on the Denver Broncos ‘ roster or coaching staff was with the team the last time they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs way back on Sept. 17, 2015. The Broncos scored touchdowns nine seconds apart in the final minute for a stunning 31-24

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Travis Kelce is expected to be available when the Chiefs play the Broncos on Thursday night, despite hurting his ankle when he slipped on the turf in last weekend’s win over the Minnesota Vikings. The All-Pro tight end was listed as “did not practice”

By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Vikings star wide receiver Justin Jefferson was forced out of the game in the fourth quarter due to a right hamstring injury. Jefferson slipped on the turf while trying to make a cut on his route during a third down pass deep in Kansas City territory.

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Travis Kelce was hurting at halftime, having limped off the field with an injury to his right ankle and Kansas City in a tied game at Minnesota. Patrick Mahomes knew better than to bother his close friend and favorite receiver with a question about his

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — Will McElvain threw four fourth-quarter touchdown passes before Kylin James added a 9-yard go-ahead score with 19 seconds remaining to complete an astounding comeback in Central Arkansas’ 38-33 win over Southeast Missouri State, which led 30-6 entering the final period. Myles Butler had two the fourth-quarter touchdown receptions. McElvain was 31-of-44

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Cam Miller completed 16 of 20 passes for 256 yards and two touchdowns and added a rushing touchdown to lead North Dakota State to a 38-10 win over Missouri State. Cole Payton, Miller’s backup, passed for a touchdown and ran for one as NDSU won its 12th straight in the series.

SAINT CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Spencer Redd returned the opening kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown, and hauled in a 52-yard touchdown reception and Lindenwood defeated Tennessee Tech 23-0. The Lions only had 10 first downs and 214 yards, but they held the Golden Eagles to 218 yards and 4-of-17 third down conversions and forced

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says he has to keep “living and enjoying the moments” while his budding relationship with Taylor Swift has thrown the latest celebrity power couple into the spotlight. Kelce spoke to the media Friday for the first time since Swift

By TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union said Friday it will not expand its strikes against Detroit’s three automakers after General Motors made a breakthrough concession on unionizing electric vehicle battery plants. The announcement of the pause in adding factories to the strikes came minutes after GM agreed

DETROIT (AP) — Autoworkers pause adding factories to strike after GM agrees to bring battery plants into main union contract.

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer Eager as the National Football League has been to cater to the recent public fixation with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, it’s certainly not taking any credit for creating the outsized storyline that has emerged around the pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. “Not orchestrated by

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer Days after his playing career ended, Adam Wainwright is dealing with a pressing issue. A cute, fluffy one. Louie, a Lagotto Romagnolo puppy that was gifted to Wainwright by the St. Louis Cardinals — his only major league team — is at the center of a running family argument.

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer After four games, Brandon Staley’s Los Angeles Chargers squad is on its earliest bye week since 2009. Instead of the usual intensive self-scouting done during bye weeks, Staley said his staff will use it to project and anticipate how they think the team will look with three-quarters of the

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Most of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX locomotives last month has focused on whether the 19-year veteran should have seen the train coming. Rail unions say more attention should be put on the

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have struggled all season to get much production from their young group of wide receivers, and that is a big reason why their offense has failed to soar like it usually does. Through the first four games, the entire Chiefs

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army has identified two soldiers who were killed Monday when their transport vehicle flipped while driving on a dirt road leading to a training site in interior Alaska. The Army in a statement late Wednesday identified the soldiers as Specialists Jeremy Daniel Evans of Knoxville, Tennessee, and