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tony sporano. can he fix what dennis allen could not? sports is coming up ne >>> good evening, from bill calahan to art shell to lane kiffen to tom cable, hugh jackson to dennis allen, fired yesterday, now, to tony sporano, introduced today as new interim head coach. that is eight coaches in 12 years if you're scoring at home. this almost seems impossible. >> as mentioned today, after losing to dolphins, he talked to mark davis about letting dennis allen go. they decided that was the way to go. today, mark davis in the background of the auditorium introduced tony sporano. asking it was a problem keching players or the scheme. >> coaches? i think we do have player that's can play in this game. >> from top down from me, to everyone, you know? we've got to get better. that is what i'll focus on. get better, each day. >> now, tony spoorano is only coach on this staff with a contract from next year. >> the biggest problem now is that they've forgotten how to win. you know? there is right now. >> thank you. >> now, to 49ers who are on a virtua

, hugh jackson to dennis allen, fired yesterday, now, to tony sporano, introduced today as new interim head coach. that is eight coaches in 12 years if you're scoring at home. this almost seems impossible. >> as mentioned today, after losing to dolphins, he talked to mark davis about letting dennis allen go. they decided that was the way to go. today, mark davis in the background of the auditorium introduced tony sporano. asking it was a problem keching players or the scheme. >> is it players? coaches? i think we do have player that's can play in this game. >> from top down from me, to everyone, you know? we've got to get better. that is what i'll focus on. get better, each day. >> now, tony spoorano is the only coach on this staff with a contract from next year. >> the biggest problem now is that they've forgotten how to win. you know? there is plenty of excuses here right now. >> thank you. >> now, to 49ers who are on a virtual joyride compared to raiders. they're dealing with their own turmoil. you don't need players to love you, only respect you and play hard. >> this ought tud is

. >> a day after firing dennis allen, oakland announces tony sparano will take over as interim head coach. spending four years as head coach in miami for the dolphins and tells us, he's ready for another chance. raiders have a bye this week and will take on the chargers on the 12th. >>> at&t park this morning, giants, not here, they're in pittsburgh for the wild card game but the team will hold a watch party for fans. viewing party will take place at at&t park 4:00 tonight and tonight's game starts at 5:00. madison bum garden on the hill. >> the ace is on the mound. giants are the only bay area team left in the playoff. a tough night for the a's who coughed up 7-3 lead going into the bottle to of the eighth. kansas city rallied and celebrated. tied it up in the 9th and threatened in the 10th and 11th. the royals rallied, a walk-off single by perez seals the deal. about to see it right there. a's lose 9-8. their season is over. a heartbreaking loss for the athletics. >> they had a good season, though. >> they did. they were rolling midseason. >> all right. next year, guys. >>> now this mor

. >>> the raiders have an interim head coach, tony spoarranno, less than 24 hours after they fired dennis allen. we have more on the issue. >> it just never stops over there. he is the there raiders' head coach since the departure of gruden. he took over to allen who was 8-28 over 3 season. the g. m. put the pros ter together and clearly he expected more results from a veteran football team. that didn't happen and it was allen that paid the price. >> a lot of it rides on me. winning did not materialize, and the way the season began, the first four games, you know, we had to make a change, so that falls on me. >> so let his era begin. he's 52 years of age, the former head coach of the dolphins. he's going to need more of that quick success in oakland if he has any expectations of losing. >> how he does probably reflects on how long reggie says in the g. m. job. >> right. >>> michael michael phelps was arrested for a dui. this is his second dui in maryland. >>> the nfl said today reference refer should not have penalized this individual for dropping to his knees in prayer after scoring a touchdow

. >>> tony sparano has been named interim head coach of the raiders. dennis allen was fired last night over the team's 0-4 start to the season. management made a lot of promises about how a team turns around and are the fans buying any of it? abc 7 news reporter nick smith joins us from raiders headquarters in alameda tonight. >> reporter: you know how this thing goes. they were talking about the changes in the press conference that just wrapped up a few minutes ago. the organization talking about the changes afoot. when it all comes down to the end, fans simply want to see their team win. >> raider nation's the best thing about the raiders. >> reporter: that's because fans are disappointed with the way their team has played on the field. >> next year we got to go all-in on a super star coach, either a college legend coach like saban or briles or something. we got to go hard. >> reporter: but going hard is not what the raiders did in their crushing loss to miami on sunday. today, raiders general manager reggie mckenzie talked about the decision to fire dennis allen

the raiders introduce former tony sporano as interim head coach taking over for dennis allen.r years head coaching experience with miami and told us in this in the view he is ready for another shot. >> i have a job to do. i was excited. you know, obviously to have an opportunity to do this. and reggie an mark davis. thought enough of me to give me this responsibility. >> took the 2008 dolphins to the post season winning the afc east after the team went 1 and 15 the season before. more news after the break. hey john check it out. whoa! yeah i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv and the tablet worked just fine but i wanted to see if the phone will work as well. so i shrunk sharon. every channel's live just like on tv but it's my phone. it's genius. shh! i'm watching tv. tiny sharon is mean. i'm right here. watch any channel live on any device around your home. the x1 entertainment operating system only from xfinity. >>> okay. rewind, 25 years, remember the game, tetris. during nintendo game boy days. tetris will be made into a movie. based

. >> no doubt that the raiders have been more competitive and tony than they were with dennis allen. more competitive department if he isly trans late to win silver and blackout play the browns in almost every facet yesterday. derek threw for 3 28 yards. oakland pass for more yards. rush for more yard. better on third did you know and dominated the time of possession. but they turned it over three times. they lost the game 23-13. raiders wi winless at o and 7. >> we fix the third down problem but we have a turn over problem. we can't have a new problem every week. we have to be consistent. can't win if not consist than thely doing well in all years. >> we just got to put it all together. >> so 6 and 1 but franchise quarterback gets taken to the locker room with a back injury. return to tie game late in the fourth quarter. do you let him? that was the dilemma facing cowboy coach jason tonight on monday night football. dallas hosting a washington team. third quarter. tony sacked for the fourth time. direct hit to the back that he had surgery on over the off season. he stayed down. knee

tony sparano with the coaching situation just like allen. derrick carr is the top dog.g how the coach put his mind at ease with regard to his position. >> a sensitive situation i was stepping into. now we're kind of past that. now it is my team. it is what he said. those are his words. we're past all of that kind of stuff, take it. you don't want to step on anybody's toes, you want to be a great teammate. here's the keys, take it and let's go. >>> meantime, the l.a. kings tonight, they know all about it after getting their hats handed to them by the sharks. the nba champs from san antonio now also know how they feel. they're going gaga in berlin. that's her. they have the lead, berlin stole it. that was jamel scoring a game winning bucket at the buzzer, and yeah, they're pretty excited about it. they just beat the world champs. why not? that's the sporting life for wednesday night. >> who's pitching for the giants saturday night? >> madison bumgarner against adam wainwright. james garner, the actor, his name used to be bumgarner. >> thanks for joining us tonight. good n

they now have tony spore ran know who was promoted after the firing of dennis allen. >>> there is more controversy surrounding the new shorter hours for a popular hiking trail. it has been a week since a curfew went into effect. the entrance used to be open from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.. now it's closed from 7:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.. the hours are designed to crack down on heavy traffic in nearby neighborhoods during the hours where most people are sleeping. people who want to hike the three mile trail are unhappy with the new shorter hours. the park district should build a new larger parking lot. the district is looking into that. >>> there is a warning for people in he's burro. people in the area are being urged to be extra careful. >>> if you ride cal train, be sure to bring extra change with you today. oneway tickets now cost $0.25 more. day passes are $0.50 higher. cal train also made some slight service changes so that work can begin to replace four rail bridges in san mateo county. >>> time is 4:37. coming up another reminder of the bryan stow bet beating. >> a symphony interrupted

allen is in disbelief. once the sixers get the ball past half court tony row 10 that kind of night. er is two weeks away. allen looks stunned. so was everybody else. sell addition win by 20. >> eagles on the bye week. full day of football sunday on fox. >> part of our coverage on fox 29 "game day live" this sunday morning, a conversation with the voice of the eagles merrill reece. if you've listened to him chances are done you've done an impression of him once in awhile. imitation really is the best perform of flattery. today merrill recalling a classic moment. >> you know the fame miss story that has been repeat the many times about going to wip many, many years ago. no. >> angel cataldi was doing the morning show and he was having a merris real sound a like contest so i went into the newsroom and i picked up the phone and i said, this is joe from drexel hill. and angelo put me on and i just did regular play. first and 10, the ball on the 35-yard line, the backs are in the eye and i just did it the way i would do a normal play. i didn't win. (laughter). >> somebody else -- i finish

either raiders have the talent or allen didn't know how to coach it or blow everything up again. they are hoping tonyan unleash whatever talent they have. head coach today. replacing the fired allen. 8 and 28 and 2seasons guiding the silver and black. record and general look of competitiveness doomed hill. old school here. no nonsense. run orient the coaching lifer took the dolphins 1 and 15 and made him a play off before things went south and he hopes that he's the answer. >> the players. don't we have the players. could that be the reason? the coaches maybe we don't have the right coaches. could it be scheme is that the problem we have to lock at all 3 of those things and make a decision which way to go. my analysis i think we do have players that cap play in the game. >> part of this i have seen it happen before annie understand how it happened. it's okay i do understand that the button to puvrnlt all that means you have people that are in this room that will be in here tomorrow that are willing to understand that buy in it. and i believe we have the right players here. i really do. now to the 49e

head coach dennis allen is bewitched out, and tony sporano is in. the team officially named soprano as interim head oh and 4 so far this season. raiders headquarters in, >> reporter: all the greatest else and all that support in europe general manager and an general manager reggie mckenzie 81 hired penicillin and we thought he might be sent pat packing it in a distant past access davis about regis uterine some route with the oakland raiders. with the right word-beat >>: morales >>: sent now as to what happened after this season is hard to say but mark davis the terms and mark davis used will see will seek how they do believe in what we do next near here and when it asks about the general manager or coach next season he said will see this as an organization that clearly was to win in alameda and cherrystone crown forenoons unrest >> reporter: >> reporter: note >> reporter: the temperatures tomorrow and the next couple of days will be warmer. in perry come lens will be changing overnight or winds are going to reverse direction and and that's gonna cau

. >> dennis allen is gone, but today's press conference to introduce the interim coach tony sparano becamethe manager reggie's job security. >> my job is to lead this team. look for our next interim head coach, look for our coach for the future. and i'm going to continue to do that unless i'm told otherwise. >> sparano has some coaching experience with the dolphins but the raiders owner mark davis told reporters he is already looking for next year. makenzie is safe for now, but davis is not happy with the way things are going. >> there ever were raider fans everywhere. we haven't won a game yet. and then to play like we did over there, and what we have done for these fans, it is not right. and i feel bad for them. >> they still have a little time to work it out. if sparano wants to be in the conversation about sticking around, he has to finish strong. >> the as started sliding two months ago? >> yeah. >> we'll be right back. looking for one of these? yoplait. smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. trying to mislead you about the effects of proposition 46. well here's the truth: 46

less than a day after firing dennis allen, oakland announced offensive line coach tony sparano will take over as interim head coach. he spent four years as head coach of the miami dolphins and tells us he is ready for another shot. raiders have a bye this week and will play the chargers on the 12th. >> they need that bye. >>> if you are near moffitt field today and see flames, do not be alarmed. nasa will be conducting training drills today. you may hear sirens if you're passing nearby. officials say the folks driving on highway 101 will be able to see some flames, but there shouldn't be too much smoke in the air. >>> stevens creek boulevard is closing at 8:00 tonight, and will reopen at 5:00 a.m. crews will do work to open three new ramps on the freeway, so you want to avoid that area tonight. and be extra careful starting tomorrow when the new configuration opens. >>> well, meteorologist christina loren has her hands full with a forecast that is more like summer than like fall. >> i hate to say it, every time i check, and i wouldn't say this unless i had a really good idea about it, it

they now have interim head coach tony spore ran know who promoted after the firing of allen. >>> 87-year-oldaul merrill was last seen at a gas station in mccloud. on thursday his car was found on a dirt road just south of that area. the search for mr. merrill is now focused on the area where that car was found. >>> a person is being treated for life threatening injuries after being hit by a car in san francisco's mission district. it happened about 7:30 last night. witnesses tell police the person that was hit crossed the street against the light and then ended up on the hood of the car. police say the driver did stop after that crash. >>> the company preparing to split into two separate companies. according to the wall street journal. one will focus on the pc and printer business. the other hardware and soft way. the paper says meg whitman would stay with the hardware and software business and dee ann would become the ceo of the pc and printer company. >>> there are indications -- libby shaft tweeted the governor will make an announcement this afternoon. we called shaft's office for more de

raiders meanwhile head into the bye week with a new head coach, tony sparano, and today raiders players had nothing but praise for allenost his job obviously. and you know everyone has to take responsibility for that. not just him. you a you know, we needed to play better, because he is a good coach. now we have to move forward. i'm in full support of coach sparano, and look forward to playing under him now. >> it sucks, it is one of the things that you don't look forward to as a player. i take accountability with my actions on the field. >> we could have done better and changed the position. it has been done. and we have to continue on and try to get this thing going in the right direction. >> a very steep uphill climb for the raiders. abc 7 sports brought to you by toyota. obviously, the yoenis cespedes thing still -- i still have a hard time with it, so i'm trying to control myself. >> you were -- from the start--i >> some people still want to argue with me on twitter. >> they are wrong and you are right. >> nice tie, i begged for it myself. >> that is our report, for spencer christian, we'll see you in an hour over

dennis allen lacked coaching experience, hired bety raiders, interim coach tony sparano has a chanceo try to fix oakland's o and 4 start. in four years, he reached the playoffs once in 28, his first season. for the raiders, he makes a move from offensive line coach to calling the shots with both his and gm reggie mackenzie's jobs really on the line. >> the way the season began through these first four games, we had to make a change and so, that falls on me. >> it's a learning process for me. as i said, i take the heat for wherever we are now, i'm the one that hired reggie, reggie hired the other guys. it falls on me. but it's a process that we're going to get this thing back and that's what my goal is i'm going to accomplish it. >> reporter: as you see, he has a massive amount of experience in the nfl, with his miami head coaching job coming from 2008 through 2011. during today's press conference, he said he and dennis allen have different philosophys. now he will get a shot to use his as he told us in an exclusive interview. >> i have a job to do. i was excited obviously to have a j

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tony spurano, he was raiders assistant head coach but is now the main man. he does have experience. he was the dolphins's head coach 2008-2011. there's dennis allen who was let go last night. here's general manager. >> the experience he brings, the leadership he brings, the passion that he brings, is needed to get this organization -- great organization towards what we need to do in this win. >> it should be noted even mckinzy's job is on the line. raiders owner, son of al davis selz says he will wait to make a decision about mckenzy at the end of the season. this is the seventh coaching change in the past 10 years for the raiders. >>> netflix next year will premiere the much-anticipated sequel to "crouching tiger hidden dragon" same day movie goers will be able to see it in theaters. trying to break the traditional system. >>> up next, castro gets a little more colorful. how the new crosswalks will light up the way. >> we'll be back with you in about 30 minutes. this is what we're working on for our 6:00 newscast. >>> the anniversary of the free speech movement in berkeley, we talk to those people who were crucial. >>> workers sewed put the fini

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tony sparano. what did he bring to the team, romo? >> what he did is he buried the past! and for me what that meant is, guess what? dennis allen gone.'m the new guy in charge. guess what? i've taken a team to the playoffs. what does that do? that has everybody in the organization feeling like, you know what, i can follow a guy that has led men and gotten them to the playoffs in one of the biggest turn-arounds in miami from one of the worst teams in the league to one of the best. what that does for the players, all of a sudden they feel like, this guy's going to put me in a position to win. >> no question. it's very simple. hope without faith is dead. what de do? he gave them hope. he gave them faith. then they worked. you saw that translate onto the field. tony sparano, when he walked into that locker room as head coach, he gave these men hope. then the play and then they worked. you saw the work, the body of work, offensive, defense, special teams, the whole atmosphere of the team. even the fans were on fire. this man has led these guys and they competed today. they came up a little short but they definitely competed. >> the past i

. >> reporter: tony, what you also heard was this motion that the coalition is really, really trying to come together, but it's going to take some time. we also heard from general allen about some other parts of dealing with the threat from isil. let's listen to a little more of what he told reporters today. >> reporter: i'd be very reluctant to attempt to assign something, a term like a strategic target or strategic strategy. there was a need. there was a need for additional fire support to go in and buy white space ultimately. so we've picked up the tempo, and the intensity of the airstrikes in order to provide that white space. >> one of the questions that came up at the daily press briefing following general allen is what does white space mean? the spokesperson said that she thinks that it means that it's a matter of simply helping in particular the iraqi security forces regain some of the territory that isil fighters have taken over, but we're going to get a clarification on that because my interpretation, tony, is that it's not just actually regaining territory, but also an effort to basic live bring more of iraqi citizens together to fight this common enemy. >

tony sparano and introduced him at a press conference this afternoon. after consecutive 4-12 seasons there was a feeling before this year began that general manager reggie mackenzie and head coach dennis allen were on the clock. an 0-4 start which included a lopsided loss in sunday's showcase game in london that time had expired for the head coach. >> in both interferences to win championships here. and to win period. and the way the season began, we had to make a change. >> reporter: in introducing tony sparano, mackenzie emphasized the word interim. finding a head coach has been as difficult as starting the best quality in that starting quarterback. sparano becomes the raiders eighth head coach in the last 12 seasons. and will try to succeed in which all else have failed. >> i believe we have the right players here. i really do. >> reporter: by all accounts the hiring of sparano was a mackenzie call as was the hiring of allen. >> i work hard every day. my job is on the line. that's just the way i am. no one has to tell me my job is on the line. no one. >> reporter: raider owner mark davis was not part of the news conference. it's reported that his patience with mackenzie will be dependent