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Tuesday 12 sepTember 2017

BARELY LEGAL

Dallas Cowboys running back
Ezekiel Elliott (21) takes the
hand off from quarterback
Dak Prescott (4) in the first
half of an NFL football game
against the New York Giants
on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, in
Arlington, Texas.
NFL moving

quickly to

reverse halt

on Elliott’s

6-game ban

By SCHUYLER DIXON
AP Pro Football Writer
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The
NFL moved quickly Mon-
day in hopes of reversing
a federal judge’s deci-
sion that has blocked the
league’s six-game suspen-
sion of star Dallas running
back Ezekiel Elliott over a
domestic violence case
in Ohio. The league asked Indians defeat O’s to
the judge who ruled in El-
liott’s favor to stop the run winning streak to 18
preliminary injunction that
cleared last year’s NFL rush-
ing leader to play while the
case is in court. A notice of
appeal was also filed with
the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans. Cleveland Indians’ Francisco Lindor celebrates
The NFL’s latest filings came after hitting a solo home run off Baltimore Orioles
about 12 hours after Elliott starting pitcher Jeremy Hellickson during the
rushed for 104 yards in the sixth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland,
Cowboys’ 19-3 season- Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017.
opening win over the New Associated Press
York Giants at home Sun-
day night. “Just relieved Page 19
from the fact that I finally
get a fair trial,” Elliott said
after the game in his first
public comments since be-
fore the Cowboys reported
for training camp in July.
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