Flanked by teammates Cody Riley, left, and Jalen Hill, UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball reads his statement during a news conference at UCLA Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, in Los Angeles. The three players were detained in Hangzhou following allegations of shoplifting last week before a game against Georgia Tech in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

On the Sports Headlines Podcast with Tony Renteria:

1 UCLA basketball players LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill, and Cody Riley seated for Wednesday’s presser having to explain to the media what took place during their China shoplifting of a pair of sunglasses. All three players were placed under house arrest until they were released and were flown back to Los Angeles. The University has suspended all three players indefinitely and that UCLA head coach Steve Alford said all three players have to “earn their way back”.

2 The Oakland Raiders have their net game in Mexico City on Sunday with New England. Tony takes a look at this a must win situation for the Raiders to even have a shot at a playoff birth.

3 The Raiders coach Jack Del Rio says he’s trying to prepare the Raiders for the high altitude in Mexico City buy not preparing them. The Raiders who have been practicing in their Alameda facility did not workout in a high altitude facility like the Patriots did this past week in Colorado Springs. Del Rio says the team won’t notice the altitude difference during the game and it’s some thing they would experience some 48 hours later.

4 How ugly is the feud between Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and NFL owners over the debate about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract extension. Jones says Goodell needs to get out because he lacks leadership in the handling of the national anthem crises, the drop sales in one of the NFL bigger sponsors Papa John’s, and TV ratings taking a dive. Some of the NFL owners have warned Jones not to move forward and push the blocking of the Goodell contract extension or they would sanction his draft picks and consider suspending Jones for conduct that is not beneficial to the league.

5. The NFL also is stewing over Jones’ involvement in pushing Papa John’s to say because of a lack of leadership (Goodell) over his handling of the players who continue to take a knee during the national anthem and that Papa John’s is losing fans over the controversy and thus losing sales. The NFL is asking Jones to stop being involved in influencing advertisers to benefit his campaign to get rid of Goodell.

Tony does the Sports Headlines Podcasts each Thursday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com