CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Herm Edwards always knew John Fox would be a coach. He wasn’t too sure about himself.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel knows that if his destination is New York for the Heisman Trophy presentation, he must navigate the road through Nebraska.
The fourth-ranked Tigers (4-0) have a long history of flopping in Lincoln against the Cornhuskers (3-1), but this year they seem to have a team that can win here for the first time since 1978.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Whenever Jim Pillen talks to Bruce Dunning, he invariably asks, “Do you still have James Wilder’s cleat marks on your forehead?”
They can laugh now.
Pillen and Dunning were members of the last Nebraska football team to lose to Missouri in Lincoln. That was in 1978, on a day Wilder ran for 181 yards and four touchdowns, running over Dunning for the last score in a 35-31 victory that dashed the second-ranked Huskers’ national championship hopes.

KANSAS CITY — Three years after the Kansas City Chiefs drafted Derrick Johnson as a playmaking linebacker, they’ve finally decided to let him be one.
Told to forget about the details and techniques of his position and fly to the ball as he had done as an All-American at Texas, Johnson responded with perhaps his finest game as a pro. He had seven tackles and half a sack, made an interception and forced a fumble that led to a touchdown in Kansas City’s 33-19 victory over Denver last Sunday.
On Wednesday, he learned he had been named AFC defensive player of the week.

KANSAS CITY — A year without winning can play tricks on a man’s mind.
Just ask Herm Edwards, who had trouble sleeping Sunday night after his Kansas City Chiefs halted a franchise-record 12-game losing streak with a 33-19 victory over Denver.
“I kept asking my wife about 1 o’clock, 'We won, right?’” Edwards said Tuesday. “She said, 'Yeah, you won, honey.’”

KANSAS CITY — A disappointed Tony Gonzalez wants to know why Kansas City coaches refused to throw a short pass his way in the final minutes Sunday, leaving him 3 yards short of the career tight end receiving record.
Gonzalez did have a 10-yard touchdown catch in a 33-19 victory over Denver that snapped the Chiefs’ 12-game losing streak. But he wanted to set the receiving record in front of family and fans at Arrowhead Stadium.
“I had my family out there. I wanted to do it in front of the fans, in a home game,” said Gonzalez, the most productive tight end in NFL history. “It would have been a great way to do it. I’m disappointed by that, for whatever reason my number wasn’t called at times.”

Most of Missouri's congressional delegation voted against the Wall Street bailout legislation. The measure that Congressional leaders spent all weekend negotiating failed 228-205 in a mid-afternoon House vote Monday.

KANSAS CITY — It didn’t seem like 11 months to Brian Waters since Kansas City’s last victory.
“It seemed like 10 years,” said the veteran left guard, grinning ear-to-ear. “It’s a sigh of relief to be able to have a little bit of joy in your life.”
Larry Johnson, two weeks after complaining that he was being phased out, ran for 198 yards and two touchdowns to lead the previously winless Chiefs past the previously unbeaten Broncos 33-19 Sunday, snapping a franchise-record 12-game losing streak.

KANSAS CITY — While everybody raves about how lucky Denver’s been, Kansas City coach Herm Edwards finds something even more admirable about the unbeaten Broncos.
They’ve been smart, Edwards says. Most of all, they’ve been steadfast. They put up with the inevitable growing pains of young players, particularly quarterback Jay Cutler, and are now reaping the rewards.
It’s the sort of thing a coach in Edwards’ seat would quickly note. He’s struggling with a restive, unruly fan base and an 0-3 team loaded with young players who are experiencing the same fatal errors that Mike Shanahan’s Broncos displayed while Cutler and other young athletes were coming around.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Greg Biffle is a firm believer in momentum. So the winner of two straight races is feeling pretty good heading into today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway.
“It’s right in our wheelhouse,” Biffle said. “We won here last year, we’re good on mile-and-a-half tracks, and we had a great Charlotte test (earlier this week). Man, I feel good about it.”
The Roush Fenway Racing driver, hoping to add a Cup title to the championships he won earlier in his career in the second-tier Nationwide — then Busch — series and the third-tier truck series, is the first driver to win the first two races of the 10-race Chase for the championship since NASCAR introduced the format in 2004.