Vikings Cut Back

Unable to trade a highly paid running back with questionable knees, the Minnesota Vikings released Terry Allen.

Allen, who holds the team record for rushing yards in a season, has had surgery on both knees in the past five years. He gained 1,031 yards last season after missing all of 1993 with a knee injury, and was scheduled to make $1.5 million in 1995.

Cincinnati Bengals general manager Mike Brown said he would be interested in rebuilding Riverfront Stadium from the ground up in order to keep his team in Cincinnati.

The Maryland Stadium Authority, a group trying to lure an NFL team, has said it needs to know within two months whether the Bengals are interested in relocating to Baltimore.

The National Football League asked a federal judge in Boston to grant a motion sparing it from a second trial in former New England Patriots owner William H. Sullivan’s antitrust lawsuit against the league.