{"id":54533,"date":"2014-09-17T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54533"},"modified":"2014-09-17T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T02:56:11","slug":"nike-suspends-vikes-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54533","title":{"rendered":"Nike suspends AP, Radisson suspends Vikes sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vikingslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9509\" alt=\"VikingslogoTHUMB\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vikingslogo.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) &#8211; Nike has suspended its sponsorship deal with Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson following child abuse allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The Beaverton-based shoemaker issued a statement Wednesday morning that said Nike &#8220;in no way condones child abuse or domestic violence of any kind and has shared our concerns with the NFL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Radisson Hotels have pulled their sponsorship of the Vikings, and Nike stores in the Twin Cities area have pulled Peterson merchandise from their shelves.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes the same day that the Vikings took Peterson off the team&#8217;s active roster while he deals with a felony child-abuse charge in Texas. He is accused of injuring his 4-year-old son by spanking him with a wooden switch earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson has an Oct. 8 court appearance scheduled in Montgomery County, outside of Houston, on a felony charge of injury to a child. Peterson has taken responsibility for the incident, insisting he meant no harm to the child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) &#8211; Nike has suspended its sponsorship deal with Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson following child abuse allegations. The Beaverton-based shoemaker issued a statement Wednesday morning that said Nike &#8220;in no way condones child abuse or domestic violence of any kind and has shared our concerns with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54533"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54588,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54533\/revisions\/54588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}