Ravens receiver moonlights as crime-fighter

Tandon Doss is a rookie wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens, was a finalist for Indiana's Mr. Football Award his senior year of high school, and is Batman.

Yes, Batman.

Before the Ravens' 34-31 win over the Redskins on Thursday, Doss broke up a knife fight at a Five Guys in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Like any good action hero, he deflected praise.

"I saw somebody start fighting, and I broke it up," Doss said, according to NFL.com. "That's all it was to me."

The Baltimore Sun said a police spokesman reported that two men attacked a manager at the restaurant at about 4:30 p.m., cutting his chin with a knife. Doss, a.k.a. the Dark Knight, intervened and the two attackers fled.

A few hours later, the fourth-round draft pick caught two passes, gained 28 yards, and had zero assault breakups vs. Washington.

In an interview with ESPN.com, Southern California coach Lane Kiffin said it was "almost impossible" for the Raiders to win with Al Davis running the organization.

Kiffin was fired as Oakland's coach in 2008, four games into his second season. At a memorable news conference to discuss the move, Davis used an overhead projector to show reporters a letter he wrote to Kiffin that called the coach "immature" and accused him of a "destructive campaign" to hurt the Raiders.

Kiffin said the overhead projector was a fitting symbol of how the Raiders have fallen behind the rest of the NFL.

"You're waiting for [Davis] to wake up and come to work at 2 o'clock in the afternoon to make decisions that the rest of the league is making at 6 o'clock in the morning," Kiffin said.

(Left unsaid was how telling another line in Davis' letter was - the one in which he said JaMarcus Russell was "a great player.")

The Vikings will host the Cowboys on Saturday night in their first game at Mall of America Field since a snowstorm tore a hole in the roof in December.

Now that the Vikings have Donovan McNabb at quarterback, they'll have to worry about holes being punched in the turf five feet in front of intended receivers.

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson in St. Paul, Minn., formally dismissed the antitrust lawsuit brought against the league by a group of players. . . . Defensive tackle Kyle Williams agreed to a six-year contract extension with the Buffalo Bills. The deal is potentially worth $39 million, a person familiar with the contract said.