Jonathan Fanene

Jonathan Fanene's phone call to American Samoa finally got through on Wednesday morning, ending an anxious night for the Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman. His mother was on the other end. His father was OK, too.  

On Tuesday, the USGS measured an 8.0 earthquake in the Samoa Islands Region which caused a tsunami that destroyed villages and affected so many lives. Another earthquake hit along the fault line, "just off the coast of Padang city", that caused the 2004 tsunami, killing nearly a quarter of a million people. Wednesday's quake came a day after a quake with a magnitude of between 8.0 and 8.3 in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsunami at the...  

Jonathan Fanene knows he has big shoes to fill at defensive end in the Bengals’ game against the Chicago Bears on Sunday now that starter Antwan Odom is out for the season because of a torn right Achilles’ tendon. “I’ve got to step up ...  

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Defensive lineman Jonathan Fanene had tears in his eyes as he recalled the moment his phone call finally got through to his mother in American Samoa. Fanene and two other Cincinnati Bengals players spent a tense night Tuesday ...  

Jonathan Fanene's phone call to American Samoa finally got through on Wednesday morning, ending an anxious night for the Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman. His mother was on the other end. His father was OK, too. That's all he wanted to hear. Fanene and two other Cincinnati Bengals players spent a tense night trying to track down family and friends in their homeland, parts of which were...  

CINCINNATI -- Jonathan Fanene 's phone call to American Samoa finally got through Wednesday morning, ending an anxious night for the Cincinnati Bengals ' defensive lineman. His mother was on the other end. His father was OK, too. That's all Fanene ...  

CINCINNATI — Jonathan Fanene's phone call to American Samoa finally got through this morning, ending an anxious night for the Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman. His mother was on the other end. His father was OK, too. That's all he wanted to ...  

Jonathan Fanene's phone call to American Samoa finally got through on Wednesday morning, ending an anxious night for the Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman. His mother was on the other end. His father was OK, too.  

Jonathan Fanene, Domata Peko and Rey Maualuga had trouble getting calls through to relatives in American Samoa after a tsunami.