Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson avoided jail Tuesday by reaching a deal with Texas prosecutors to resolve a child abuse case that revived a national debate about corporal punishment. Peterson was sentenced to a form of probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless assault for using a wooden switch to discipline […]
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle Bonita Jackson, mother of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, talks about her son the day after he placed on the Commissioner’s exempt list on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Houston. Seated on a couch at her home overlooking a golf course in Spring, Bonita Jackson dabbed her eyes with […]
The Minnesota Vikings have placed star running back Adrian Peterson on the exempt/commissioner’s permission list, a move that will require him to stay away from the team while he addresses child abuse charges. The Vikings made the announcement early Wednesday morning after initially deciding that Peterson could play with the team while the legal process […]
Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight Talk panel (Malik Husser, Kim Brown and Paris Dennard) discuss the Adrian Peterson child abuse case and how far…
‘We mourn and grieve but heaven had the baddest welcoming party for my son’ – NFL Star, Adrian Peterson on the death of his 2-year-old son Adrian Peterson, the Christian Minnesota Vikings running back, may have lost his two-year-old son recently, but the athlete is revealing his faith that God can even bring about good […]
When Adrian Peterson was 7, he saw his older brother die in a bike accident when he was hit by a drunken driver. For Peterson’s teenage years, his father was in prison. He grew up poor in east Texas. Shortly before the Minnesota Vikings drafted him in 2007, a half-brother, was shot and killed. Long before […]
NFL player and devout Christian Adrian Peterson does not take performance enhancing drugs, but rather “juices on the blood of Jesus,” the Minnesota Vikings running back wrote in a recent article for the newly-launched website, Monday Morning Quarterback. In a recent installation of “10 Things I Think I Think,” Peterson listed one of his most memorable […]
CBN Sports goes behind the scenes with one of the league’s top running backs as Adrian Peterson talks about his faith journey article courtesy of TheChristianPost.com
