Star suspended

NFL: The NFL suspended star Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for six games yesterday, concluding after a year-long investigation that the league’s leading rusher injured his former girlfriend in three separate incidents last summer. According to the letter Elliott received informing him of the suspension, the NFL believed he used ‘‘physical force’’ three times in a span of five days in a Columbus, Ohio, apartment last July, resulting in injuries to Tiffany Thompson’s face, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, wrists, hips and knees.