Ex-Giant Antonio Pierce brings ‘swagger,’ leadership to dysfunctional Raiders

There’s a new sheriff in Sin City, and the Giants had best beware when they play the Raiders on Sunday in Las Vegas. As dysfunctional and rudderless as the Raiders looked in their sloppy loss to the Lions on Monday night in Detroit, they’re certain to be a different team under the leadership of Antonio Pierce, their new interim coach and former backbone of Giants defenses from 2005-09. “It’s a new day, a new era and a new chapter,” the 45-year-old Pierce told reporters on Wednesday after he was promoted...