ounted on to pressure Rivers with Houston and fellow linebacker Josh Mauga out with injuries.I think our approach to 91 is going to be the 91 weve seen the last decade, Rivers said. Maybe he wont be

NFLOpening day in the NFL saw Kansas City cornerback Marcus Peters raise a black-gloved fist during the national anthem, a protest amplified later when four Miami Dolphins kneeled on the sideline with hands on their hearts as The Star Spangled Banner played in Seattle.The protests were inspired by San Francisco backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick , the first NFL player who chose to sit and take a knee during the anthem in preseason games to call attention to what he termed the oppression of blacks and other minorities.Peters gesture was the only one visible throughout the early games as the anthems took on more significance because of the 15th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks.GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Jimmy Garoppolo did just what Tom Brady always seems to do. Lead the New England Patriots to a late score and victory.But the Patriots needed a little help.Arizonas Chandler Catanzaro missed a 47-yard field goal with 41 seconds to play and the severely depleted Patriots escaped with a 23-21 victory Sunday night in the season opener.The miss came after Garoppolo, in his first NFL start, directed the Patriots from their own 19 to the Arizona 15 to set up Stephen Gostkowskis 23-yard field goal for what proved to be the winner with 3:44 to play.Garoppolo completed 24 of 33 passes for 264 yards with no interceptions. He never seemed rattled.TENNISNEW YORK -- Stan Wawrinka is the first to acknowledge he hasnt always been the most consistent player -- or the strongest mentally. Thats why, when he shows his mettle during a match, he likes to point his right index finger to his temple.That signature gesture got a lot of use in the U.S. Open final, when Wawrinka surprisingly managed to wear down Novak Djokovic and beat the defending champion 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 for his first U.S. Open title and third Grand Slam trophy overall.The 31-year-old Wawrinka is the oldest U.S. Open mens champion since Ken Rosewall was 35 in 1970.NEW YORK -- Angelique Kerber won her first U.S. Open title and the second Grand Slam trophy of her breakthrough season, beating Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Saturday.The No. 2-seeded Kerber trailed by a break at 3-1 in the third set before taking five of the last six games against a fading Pliskova, who was seeded 10th and hadnt been past the third round at a major until this tournament.The left-handed Kerber already was assured of making her debut at No. 1 in the WTA rankings on Monday, ending Serena Williams record-tying 186-week stay at the top.Never a Grand Slam finalist before 2016, the German beat Williams for the Australian Open title in January, then lost to her in the Wimbledon final in July.COLLEGE FOOTBALLOklahoma State dropped out of The Associated college football poll after a controversial loss, and Georgia and Clemson fell after close calls against lightly regarded opposition.Alabama is still No. 1, receiving 56 out of 61 first-place votes. No. 2 Florida State, No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 Michigan all moved up one spot. The Seminoles got four first-place votes and Michigan received one.Clemson fell from second to fifth after a four-point win against Troy. No. 16 Georgia dropped seven spots after beating FCS Nicholls by two.BASEBALLTORONTO -- David Ortiz hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, Jackie Bradley Jr. and Hanley Ramirez also connected, and the Boston Red Sox outslugged Toronto 11-8 to reclaim a two-game lead over the Blue Jays in the AL East.Ortiz put Boston up 10-8 with a drive off Joaquin Benoit. It was his 41st career home run at Rogers Centre, his highest total at any road stadium.With his 535th career homer, Ortiz moved past Jimmie Foxx into sole possession of 18th place on baseballs career list. He also increased his RBI total to 110, the most by a player age 40 or above since Dave Winfield had 108 for Toronto in 1992.Edwin Encarnacion homered twice and Troy Tulowitzki hit his third career grand slam for the Blue Jays, who are tied with Baltimore for the wild-card lead.HOUSTON -- Jorge Soler and Addison Russell homered to lead Chicago to a 9-5 win over the Houston Astros, moving the Cubs closer to clinching the NL Central.Soler hit a solo home run as part of Chicagos four-run third, and Russell hit a two-run shot -- his 20th of the season -- in the fourth as the Cubs built a 9-0 lead.Chicago extended its lead in the NL Central to 16 games over St. Louis.GOLFCARMEL, Ind. -- Powerful off the tee and relentless with the putter, Dustin Johnson didnt give anyone much of a chance by closing with a 5-under 67 to win the BMW Championship by three shots and move to the top of the FedEx Cup.Johnson won for the third time in his last eight tournaments dating to his first major at the U.S. Open, and this might have been his most complete performance.Paul Casey did just about everything he could, including two early birdies for two-shot swings that erased a four-shot deficit in two holes. Johnson answered with a pair of birdies and he was on his way. Casey made a 25-foot eagle putt on the 15th hole to get within one shot, but that lasted only as long as it took Johnson to make an 18-foot eagle putt on top of him to keep the margin at three shots.Casey was runner-up in his second straight FedEx Cup playoff event, losing to Rory McIlroy a week ago.AUTO RACINGRICHMOND, Va. -- It was yet another Denny Hamlin runaway for Joe Gibbs Racing on Saturday night in what turned out to be an anticlimactic end to NASCARs regular season.The fireworks came off the track at Richmond International Raceway, where Tony Stewart intentionally wrecked Ryan Newman before Newman angrily chided his former boss for the accident that officially ended Newmans chances to make the playoffs.The verbal beat down from Newman came with 37 laps left, before Hamlin finished off his third career Sprint Cup win at his home track while giving JGR its third consecutive victory at the track and ninth in the last 15 races.Newman called Stewart bipolar, said the retiring race car driver had anger issues, and all but outright referenced the 2014 incident in which Stewart fatally struck a sprint car driver. 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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs remember not-so-fondly the way they started last season, dropping five of their first six games and spending the rest of the year digging out of the hole.This year, theyd rather start the way they finished.Andy Reid and Co. carry an NFL-leading 10-game regular-season winning streak into Sundays opener against the San Diego Chargers. In fact, the only loss theyve had since October came in the AFC playoffs, when they lost on the road to the New England Patriots.We played some good teams, Im not going to short-change the teams we were playing, Reid said this week, but we settled down as it went and we all did better.So much better that Kansas City went 11-5 and won its first playoff game since January 1994.The sudden about-face came despite losing star running back Jamaal Charles to a torn ACL in his right knee, and with a series of injuries hobbling star pass rusher Justin Houston.And it proved instructive to a team that largely returns intact this year.You have to start fast, Chiefs wide receiver Jeremy Maclin said. If we started fast, we wouldnt have been in the position we were in for the playoffs.The Chargers would love to be in any playoff position.After winning their opener against the Lions, and beating the Browns in Week 4, they went on to lose six straight games and missed the postseason for the second straight year.Lack of production from first-round draft pick Melvin Gordon and the rest of the ground game contributed to their downfall, along with a series of razor-thin losses. But perhaps most troubling was the play of the Chargers porous defense, which they hope to have shored up by signing nose tackle Brandon Mebane and drafting defensive end Joey Bosa third overall.Even though there is some uncertainty whether Bosa will play Sunday , the Chargers still think their defense -- and by extension the entire team -- is better than the 4-12 finish a year ago.The record sticks with you forever, said Chargers coach Mike McCoy, now in his fourth year, but weve got a good football team and now we have to go do it.Like last season, the Chiefs could still be without Charles and Houston on Sunday.Charles has been slow in coming back from surgery following his Week 5 injury last year, and Reid called it a stretch that he will be on the field against San Diego. Houston is out for the foreseeable future following surgery to repair his own ACL in February.Not that Houstons absence, or the fact All-Pro safety Eric Berry missed the entire preseason due to a contract dispute, is making the Chargers feel any better about faccing what was one of the leagues premier defenses a year ago.ddddddddddddWhat did we score, shoot, six points against them last year? Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said, reflecting on a 33-3 rout in San Diego and a 10-3 in Kansas City. I believe in our defense, but I think it is going to take more than a field goal this time.As the AFC West rivals prepare to kick off the season, here are some things to know:DIVISION DOLDRUMS: The Chargers have lost eight straight games against AFC West foes, and their only two wins in two years have come against winless Raiders teams.I think it has a chance to be one of the more salty, tough divisions in the league, I really do, said Rivers, who is starting his 13th year in it. Four or five years ago it was regarded by many to be a weak division. And now, shoot, its arguably one of the best.BURSTING BACKFIELD: Even without Charles, the Chiefs have a trio of capable running backs in Charcandrick West, Spencer Ware and Knile Davis. West and Ware in particular proved to be a solid one-two punch in Charles absence during the second half of last season.SOLID O-LINE: The Chargers offensive front was a mess last season. Tackle King Dunlap was sidelined by injuries and most of the rest were ineffective. But now that theyre healthy, and with the inking of center Matt Slauson, expectations are once again high for the San Diego offense.HALI, WAIT AND SEE: Pass rusher Tamba Hali skipped most of training camp and all of the Chiefs preseason games to protect his knees, which underwent surgery in the offseason. The veteran will be counted on to pressure Rivers with Houston and fellow linebacker Josh Mauga out with injuries.I think our approach to 91 is going to be the 91 weve seen the last decade, Rivers said. Maybe he wont be, but you have to expect that.SPEAKING OF OFFENSE: Both teams have new coordinators. The Chargers brought back Ken Whisenhunt after 23 unsuccessful games coaching the Titans, while the Chiefs turned their attack over to Brad Childress and Matt Nagy following Doug Pedersons departure for Philadelphia.In both instances, the transition has been relatively seamless.Obviously we had a good start in 13, got our way into the postseason, won a playoff game, Rivers said. We built and did some things in the two years (Whisenhunt) was gone that we liked and we kept, and he brought back some of his own ideas and meshed things together.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '