The Morning Becomes Hectic: Raiders, Jay Leno

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Just doing a quick search of the wires and websites this morning, I found this interesting:

-- Marty Schottenheimer predicted on his Sirius XM radio show last week that the Raiders would beat the Chiefs. Now Marty says he was just kidding, even though he was right. ‘I did it all for radio. It was all for theater.’’ And he used to accuse us of trying to stir things up.

Or maybe he’s positioning himself to be the Raiders’ coach when Lane Kiffin is fired.

Not if, but when.

Our NFL columnist, Sam Farmer, will give you his take on that later today on LATimes.com and in tomorrow morning’s sports section.

-- Jay Leno: ‘The stock market completely crashed yesterday, but market analysts are not calling it a crash. They’re calling it a correction. Kind of like saying UCLA had a close game.’’

-- Our former Times colleague Rick Reilly appeared on ‘The Colbert Report’’ last night to talk about his charity. ‘Nothing but Nets’’ collects money to send nets to Africa so that people can protect themselves from insect bites that lead to malaria.

‘’Instead of buying the Britney Spears CD, kids buy a net,’’ Reilly said.

Colbert responded: ‘You could buy the Britney Spears CD and the net and send them both to Africa. They’ll stay alive with the net and look at the Britney Spears CD and say, ‘Hey, my life is not so bad.’’’

More to come...

-- Randy Harvey, Sports Editor