Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson apologized to his fans for being absent from a youth football camp carrying his name in Oklahoma. Peterson has appeared at the camp near the Oklahoma campus in Norman the past three years, but says he won't be able to make it Thursday or Friday for this year's event.

St. Louis Rams linebacker David Vobora was awarded $5.4 million in his lawsuit against a Florida supplements maker. More important, Vobora said his reputation has been restored. "Today is a celebration," Vobora said Monday. "Today, I've been proven innocent." U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel entered the order against the Anti-Steroid Program LLC of Key Largo, Fla., on Friday.

Denver Broncos defensive player Jason Hunter was struck in the left upper chest by a kitchen knife hurled at him by his girlfriend during an argument over cell phones, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press. Hunter told police the woman waved the knife and told him to stay back before throwing it "on accident" during the morning of April 27, according to the...

Tiki Barber says failures off the field after his retirement from football in 2006 led to a yearlong bout with depression. The 36-year-old Barber, the New York Giants' career leading rusher, acknowledged in an HBO report to be aired Tuesday that he now needs football more than it needs him. Barber has spent the past four months working out in an attempt to make a comeback, although his chances...

Chris Johnson says his focus when football returns will be on helping the Tennessee Titans get back to the postseason. The running back hosted his annual football camp at Battle Ground Academy on Saturday. Johnson, who received about $2.1 million in a renegotiated deal last year, hasn't been to the playoffs since the 2008 season, and has that atop his list of goals for 2011.

Longtime NFL defensive end Raheem Brock was arrested in his hometown of Philadelphia after a dispute at a restaurant. Police Lt. Raymond Evers says Brock ran out on a $27 bar tab at Copabanana on Thursday. Bartender Rob Harris tells WTXF-TV that Brock's party was asked to leave after one of them brought in food from another eatery.

The NFL is investigating the reported investment by at least 25 NFL players in an Alabama casino that has been shut down, a business venture that might have run afoul of league rules. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed the investigation Friday, a day after Yahoo! Sports reported that wide receivers Terrell Owens, Santonio Holmes, Santana Moss and other players had invested some $20 million in...

Braylon Edwards has made good on a promise he made a few years ago by sending 100 Cleveland-area students to college. The New York Jets wide receiver tweeted Thursday that "as the 2nd most hated man in Clev & a man of my word," he was honoring his commitment to pay for the students' college tuitions if they reached certain academic goals.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended the lockout to some unhappy Tennessee Titans fans and said that the league does not have a "drop dead date" to end the impasse. "We're going to work to try to get this done and try to avoid having lost anything more of the NFL than we've already lost," the commissioner said.

The numbers are ugly. When have we heard that about the NFL before? Certainly not since its last labor stoppage, a players strike in 1987. Now, 10 weeks into the owners' lockout of the players, the NFL is seeing the early signs of cracks in fan loyalty. "It currently has an impact. Fans want certainty," Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday at the end of the league's spring...

Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez says the entire team plans to work out together "sometime next month" if the NFL lockout drags on through June. Sanchez, an in-studio guest on NFL Network on Wednesday night, says he and several offensive teammates "had plenty of fun" when they got together for five days in Southern California for his "Jets West" camp earlier this month.

First-round draft pick Marcell Dareus wasn't going to pass up a chance to join his new Buffalo Bills teammates for informal workouts this week -- even if it meant arriving a few days late and spending most of Wednesday's session watching from the sideline. The opportunity to start bonding with fellow players and get his first taste of an NFL-style workout, despite the gloomy shadow of a...