Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson learned Tuesday he will be suspended without pay for the rest of the 2014 NFL season, according to an NFL statement. Peterson intends to appeal. Peterson will not be reinstated before April 15 because he violated the league's personal conduct policy "in an incident of abusive discipline that he inflicted on his four-year-old son last May," the league said. Peterson has been on the exempt/commissioner's permission list which kept him off the field, with pay since September after allegations he disciplined his son too harshly with a "switch" or thin stick. Initially charged with felony child abuse, "The timing of your potential reinstatement will be based on the results of the counseling and treatment program set forth in this decision," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a letter to Peterson. "Under this two-step approach, the precise length of the suspension will depend on your actions. We are prepared to put in place a program that can help you to succeed, but no program can succeed without your genuine and continuing engagement." / Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was suspended without pay for the remainder of the 2014 NFL season on November 18 for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Peterson has been on the exempt/commissioner's permission list which kept him off the field, with pay since September after allegations he disciplined his 4-year-old son too harshly with a "switch" or thin stick. Initially charged with felony child abuse, Peterson pleaded no contest to misdemeanor reckless assault in November. Running back Ray Rice was cut by the NFL's Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the league in 2014. Those measures came after video from a casino elevator showed he delivered a knockout punch to his then-fiancee and current w Tennis player Viktor Troicki completed an 18-month suspension for not providing a blood sample for a doping test at the Monte Carlo Masters in April 2013. One of the world's top tennis players at the time, Troicki claimed a doctor conducting the blood test allowed him to miss the procedure. When he returned to the sport in July, the 28-year-old player was ranked 842nd. Uruguay soccer star Luis Suarez is serving a four-month suspension from the sport after he bit Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder during a World Cup game in June. He was also banned for nine international matches and fined $111,000. Cyclist Lance Armstrong lost his seven Tour de France titles and received a l New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez is serving a 162-game suspension for doping the most severe in baseball history for performance-enhancing drug use. Missing the entire 2014 season will cost Rodriguez his $25 million salary. The Indiana Pacers' Ron Artest, now named Metta World Peace, was suspended for 86 games in 2004 after he jumped into the stands and fought with fans in Detroit. The melee began after somebody threw a drink on him. Tonya Harding, the first female figure skater to complete a triple axel in competition, received a l In 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his World Boxing Association title and banned by virtually every state's licensing authority after he refused induction into the U.S. Army and became a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. He returned to boxing more than three years later and eventually regained his title. Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions Some of sports' biggest suspensions His reinstatement also hinges on his rehabilitation, how he cares for his children and whether he

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