Cardinals put Peterson on IR
Adrian Peterson was placed on injured reserve because of a neck injury, ending the running back’s season after only six games with the Arizona Cardinals.
Acquired from New Orleans on Oct. 10, Peterson ran for 448 yards — 314 in his first three games — and two touchdowns on 129 carries and had nine catches for 66 yards for the Cardinals. In four games for the Saints, he ran for 81 yards on 24 carries and caught two passes for 4 yards.
He signed with the Saints in the offseason after spending his first 10 NFL seasons with the Minnesota Vikings.
The Carolina Panthers say they have launched an internal investigation into workplace misconduct allegations against founder and owner Jerry Richardson. The team said former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles is overseeing the investigation by a Los Angeles-based law firm.
Trevor Siemian’s season is over after the Broncos’ starting quarterback injured his left shoulder Thursday in Denver’s 25-13 win at Indianapolis.
The Kansas City Chiefs placed center Mitch Morse on IR with a left foot injury and elevated cornerback Keith Reaser from the practice squad.
The Buffalo Bills placed left tackle Cordy Glenn on IR. Golf: Justin Rose completed the final two holes of his second round for a 3-under-par 69 and a one-stroke lead at the Indonesian Masters in Jakarta. He was at 13-under 131. Lawsuit: A defamation lawsuit filed by Pete Rose last year against John Dowd, the lawyer who got him kicked out of baseball for betting on baseball in 1989, has been dismissed.
Rose contended in the suit that Dowd defamed him in 2015 by saying on the radio that Rose had raped young teen girls during spring training. Obituary: Frank Lary, the Detroit Tigers pitcher who was called the Yankee Killer because of his success against New York’s big-hitting lineup, died Wednesday after being hospitalized in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with pneumonia. He was 87. Lary pitched with the Tigers from 1954-64 and led the American League with 21 wins in 1956. A two-time All-Star, he won the Gold Glove Award in 1961, when he went 23-9 and finished third in the Cy Young Award voting behind Whitey Ford and Warren Spahn.
Lary got his nickname by going 27-10 against the Yankees from 1955-61, a span when New York won six pennants.