The Facts: Following up on a previous item. ... With the Raiders embarking upon a new era with rookie HC Dennis Allen, news of receiver Heyward-Bey being arrested and charged with suspicion of DUI cannot be a good early step, right? "No, but you know what? Until we get all the facts of the case, we're not going to rush to judgment on anything," Allen said. "Get all the facts and then play it out from there."

Diehards Line:Heyward-Bey was arrested at about 2 a.m. on April 7 on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge and the San Francisco district attorney's office filed charges on Wednesday. "It's a situation that we're aware of and we're monitoring," Allen said. "We'll see how the whole legal proceedings carry out and then we'll kind of go from there. ..." Stay tuned.