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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- To Derek Carr, its time for all the critics to stop picking on the Oakland Raiders defense.Carr threw for 249 yards and a touchdown, and the Raiders beat the Tennessee Titans 17-10 on Sunday with their defense finally coming up with some big plays.They won the game for us, Carr said. That right there was a prime example of what Ive seen every day in practice. Thats why I kept saying what I was saying. Its hard to complete balls against them.The Raiders (2-1) forced three turnovers and had a sack after coming into this game having given up more yards than any team since at least 1940 through the first two games. Coach Jack Del made a couple of lineup changes, starting linebacker Cory James and rookie safety Karl Joseph, their top draft pick.Oakland took control in the second quarter, scoring 10 points and outgaining the Titans 129-40 to take a 17-3 lead into halftime.The Titans (1-2) rallied from a 15-3 deficit a week ago in beating Detroit 16-15 , and they thought they at least had forced overtime when Marcus Mariota found Andre Johnson alone in the end zone for a touchdown. But officials flagged Johnson for interference on Raiders cornerback TJ Carrie.If he wouldnt have fell down, it wouldnt have been called, Johnson said.Two plays later, Carrie appeared to grab Harry Douglas in the end zone on the Titans final play with no flag thrown. Carr knelt to run out the clock as the Raiders escaped with a win.Titans coach Mike Mularkey said he needed to watch the tape on some of the plays.I need to be careful, Mularkey said.LEWANS PENALTY: Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan may have had the costliest penalty. He apologized to his teammates for an unnecessary roughness penalty that backed the Titans from the Oakland 3 to the 18 with 50 seconds left.Tajae Sharpe caught a 19-yard pass and was being tackled when Lewan flew in to clean up the pile. Officials flagged him, costing Tennessee first-and-goal at the 3 with 50 seconds left to first-and-10 at the Raiders 18. Asked about the penalty, Mularkey said Lewan and the Raiders thought the play was still alive.Everybody but the officials, Mularkey said.MARIOTAS TURNOVERS: Mariota turned the ball over three times, and the No. 2 pick overall in the 2015 draft now has lost three fumbles with four interceptions already this season. The Raiders turned a fumble forced by Bruce Irvin into a field goal and a 10-3 lead. That was all the points the Raiders got off his mistakes.NICE OPENING: Latavius Murray didnt touch the ball on Oaklands opening drive until he was handed the ball on the final play. Then, he ran 22 yards up the middle for a touchdown to put the Raiders ahead to stay. Carr also tossed a 19-yard TD pass to Seth Roberts late in the second quarter against a Tennessee defense that had allowed only one offensive TD through the first two games.NFL RECORD: Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski became the NFLs career leader in field goals made from 50 yards and out when he connected from 52 with 8:13 left in the second quarter. He gave the Raiders a 10-3 lead on the 53rd field goal of 50 or more yards for the 17-year veteran, which broke a tie with Jason Hanson, who had 52 such field goals in 21 NFL seasons. His field goal came after a holding penalty wiped out a TD pass by Carr.MR. MURRAY: Murray, the NFLs 2014 offensive player of the year, helped the Titans get back into the game. He reeled off a 36-yard run with the Titans backed up near the own end zone, and he capped a 93-yard drive by outracing a pair of Oakland defenders around the right side to the end zone for a 5-yard TD with 5:51 left in the third quarter. It was Murrays first TD running the ball this season.He also ran for 114 yards on 16 carries to become the first running back to reach 100 yards in a game since the 2013 season finale.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow Teresa M. Walker at www.twitter.com/teresamwalkerWholesale Soccer Jerseys . Q: Team Canada announces their Olympic roster three weeks from today. Who is general manager Steve Yzerman watching? LeBrun: Over the last 48 hours, hes taken in the home-and-home between the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche with Jamie Benn and Matt Duchene being the obvious targets. 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Michell Burger, a woman who lives on an estate next to Pistorius gated community, said she and her husband were awoken by the screams in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp by shooting four times through a door in his bathroom.The Grade 1 Delaware Handicap at Delaware Park on Saturday is sandwiched among four playable supporting races. The Del Cap is slotted as race 9 at 5:15 p.m. Eastern. It is preceded by the $50,000 Hockessin Stakes and a third-level optional-claiming race and is followed by the Grade 3 Kent Stakes and the $50,000 Carl Hanford Memorial.There are rolling daily doubles and pick threes throughout the five-race sequence and a pick four that begins with the Hockessin and concludes with the $200,000 Kent. The card will be streamed live on DRF.com.The Kent, a 1-1/8-mile turf race for 3-year-olds, is about as wide open as an eight-horse race can be and matches horses from the barns of Steve Asmussen, Chad Brown, Mike Maker, Shug McGaughey, Bill Mott, and Todd Pletcher.Converge, trained by Brown, is the only graded stakes winner in the field and has made his last four starts in graded company. Four-time winner Keystoneforvictory, trained by Maker, is the only horse in the field with more than two victories. And American Patriot, conditioned by Pletcher, has the best last-out Beyer Speed Figure, an 89 he earned in winning a first-level optional claimer going the Kent distance at Belmont Park.Motts runner, Mighty Mo, did not run his best race last out while finishing fourth in the Paradise Creek Stakes at Belmont in May. He tracked a loose-on-the-lead Too Discreet in that seven-furlong grass sprint and then flattened out in the stretch.Too Discreet set tepid fractions of 23.05 and 46.07 seconds before coming home quickly with a final three furlongs in 34.21 en route to a final clocking of 1:20.28. Mighty Mo may fare better in this longer race that should be run in a more even manner. He figures to be either on the front end or tracking Keystoneforvictory.Two starts back, Mighty Mo finished second by a neck to Highland Sky in the Woodhaven Stakes at Aqueduct. Highland Sky has since finished second by a neck to Camelot Kitten in the Grade 3 Pennine Ridge at Belmont Park and second by a neck to Deauville last Saturday in the $1.25 million Belmont Derby.Three starts ago, Mighty Mo won a Gulfstream Park maiden race over Sir Dudley Digges, who has since won the $1 million Queens Plate for Maker.Edgar Prado, who won the $200,000 Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware last Saturday, has the mount on Mighty Mo. It would be fitting if Mott were to win the Kent, as last week a horse he trains, Suffused, was shipped to Delaware but had to be scratched from the Dick Memorial after the tracks third-party Lasix administrator failed to treat her with the anti-bleeding medication.ddddddddddddInspector Looney, trained by McGaughey, and Madtap, trained by Asmussen, should both appreciate the added distance of the Kent. In their most recent starts, they closed well to be second going a mile in allowance company. Inspector Looney overcame a very wide trip in his race.* Chief Istan merits attention in the Hockessin, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up. He came into the Mr. Prospector at Monmouth Park last out undefeated in three starts but was finished early and badly beaten. Based with Larry Jones at Delaware, he has since worked five furlongs and may well return to form Saturday.* Catcha Rising Star finished second to the graded-stakes-winning Onus in a course-record performance at Belmont while making her 4-year-old debut. She is well spotted by Graham Motion in this 7-1/2-furlong optional claimer on turf.* The late-running Kid Cruz will be favored in the Hanford Memorial, a 1-1/16-mile dirt race for 3-year-olds and up.Kid Cruz had won two stakes in a row before finishing seventh in the Grade 2 Brooklyn going 1-1/2 miles on Belmont Stakes Day. Kid Cruz can be a bit lazy at times, but jockey Jose Ortiz knows him well and is sure to keep him properly motivated in the Hanford.* Warrioroftheroses is an all-or-nothing type of runner. He comes into the Hanford off an eight-length optional-claiming victory at Delaware for trainer Damon Dilodovico and is sure to gun for the lead.* Bodhisattva broke a seven-race losing streak dating back to his Federico Tesio Stakes victory in April 2015 while being reunited with trainer Jose Corrales last out. Bodhisattva rallied from 12 lengths back in the Pimlico optional claimer to win by 3-3/4 lengths and earn a career-best 94 Beyer.I was expecting him to run well last time, but I wasnt expecting him to really come out the way he did, Corrales said. I wanted to make one move, and the jockey rode him the way I wanted, and it was a good result.Taylor Hole rides again Saturday. ' ' '