LOS ANGELES -- CAROLINA (2-5) vs. LOS ANGELES (3-4)Sunday, 4 p.m. ET, FoxOPENING LINE -- Panthers by 2RECORD VS. SPREAD -- Carolina 2-5, Los Angeles 3-3-1SERIES RECORD -- Panthers lead 12-8LAST MEETING -- Panthers beat Rams 30-15, Oct. 20, 2013LAST WEEK -- Panthers beat Cardinals 30-20; Rams had bye, lost to Giants 17-10 on Oct. 23AP PRO32 RANKING -- Panthers No. 23, Rams No. 26PANTHERS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (7), RUSH (5), PASS (9).PANTHERS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (20), RUSH (3), PASS (30).RAMS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (30), RUSH (29), PASS (25).RAMS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (11), RUSH (15), PASS (12).STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES -- Carolina makes its first trip to Hollywood. Panthers entered NFL in 1995, few months after Rams and Raiders simultaneously left nations second-largest city. ... Coaches Jeff Fisher and Ron Rivera were teammates on 1980s Chicago Bears. ... Teams met in divisional playoff game during 2003 season. Carolina beat Mike Martzs 12-4 St. Louis team in double overtime. Rams havent had winning season since. ... Panthers averaging sturdy 27.3 points per game, while Rams are 30th in NFL with 17.1. ... ... Panthers 30-20 win over Cardinals last week snapped four-game skid. They try to win back-to-back games for first time in defending NFC champions season. ... Panthers stout run defense being betrayed by weak pass defense yielding 286.9 yards per game. ... Carolina QB Cam Newton spoke with Commissioner Roger Goodell about concerns over big hits this season. Newton feels he isnt being protected. ... 2015 All-Pro DT Aaron Donald says Rams wont change how they play after Newtons concerns went public. ... Rams come off bye week with three-game losing streak. ... Rams finally get third real home game of relocation season. Theyve played at Coliseum just once since mid-September season opener. ... Rams went 41-20-1 at Coliseum during November when they played downtown prior to 1979. ... Rams struggling in passing game yet again with just 227.7 yards per game, despite showing signs of improvement from last season. Still arent ready to play No. 1 overall draft pick Jared Goff. ... Fantasy Tip: Panthers had 12 sacks in first six games, but sacked Carson Palmer eight times last week. Rams QB Case Keenum has been sacked 16 times in seven games.---AP NFL websites: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFLScarpe Nike Scontate .ca NFL Power Rankings, overtaking the Denver Broncos and remaining ahead of NFC competition San Francisco, Carolina and New Orleans. Scarpe Scontate Online . "Were just throwing s--- at the wall hoping something sticks," said Tortorella about the possible line combinations for Fridays game against Columbus. The Canucks have lost five straight games and six of their last seven, leaving them in a logjam in the Pacific Division, currently sitting fifth - good for ninth in the Western Conference. http://www.scontatescarpe.it/ . 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Three-time doubles gold medalists Serena and Venus Williams lost an Olympic match as partners for the first time, stunned in the opening round of the Rio de Janeiro Games by the Czech Republics Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova 6-3, 6-4.The Williams sisters entered Sundays match with a 15-0 career record in the Olympics, winning the gold medal in womens doubles every time they entered the event: in 2000, 2008 and 2012.The American duo was seeded No. 1 in Rio and coming off a 14th Grand Slam championship together at Wimbledon a month ago.Neither Safarova nor Strycova, meanwhile, ever had won an Olympic doubles match, going a combined 0-3 with other partners. They are unseeded in Rio.And get this: They werent even supposed to be playing together at the Olympics. Strycova was a late replacement for Karolina Pliskova, who withdrew from the tournament.Indeed, Strycova and Safarova only had played one match as a team before Sunday night -- and they lost that, in a Fed Cup match last year.This was Serenas second match of the day: She won her first-rounder in singles earlier Sunday. Venus, meanwhile, now has twoo first-round exits at the Rio Olympics, because she was beaten in singles on Saturday night.dddddddddddd.After that defeat, Venus did not meet with reporters, but U.S. womens Olympic tennis coach Mary Joe Fernandez said that the seven-time major singles champion had been sick since before she arrived in Brazil. Fernandez also said Venus was dealing with cramping, dehydration and an upset stomach after Saturdays loss.In the doubles, played under the lights, when occasional chants of USA! would rise from some spectators, other members of the crowd would respond with boos.Safarova and Strycova did their best to keep hitting shots toward Venus when she was at the baseline, while Serena was left to stand near the net and watch those exchanges.The Williams sisters appeared to be getting back into the match in the second set, which was even at 4-all.But Venus got broken there, allowing Strycova to serve out the surprising victory.---Follow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich ' ' '