Strong safety Kam Chancellor will miss the Seattle Seahawks’ game Monday night against the Atlanta Falcons and his status for the rest of the season is in doubt due to a neck injury sustained last week against the Cardinals. Coach Pete Carroll, who earlier in the week said Chancellor had neck stingers, said Chancellor and the team are exploring options and no decisions have been made about his status for the rest of the year. Chancellor, third on the team with 48 tackles, is the second member of Seattle’s secondary to lose time due to injuries sustained at Arizona. Corner Richard Sherman tore his Achilles’ tendon and had season-ending surgery this past week.
Dolphins waive Maualuga
The Dolphins waived linebacker Rey Maualuga after his arrest on a misdemeanor battery charge in Miami. Police and court records show Maualuga was arrested after an early morning incident at a downtown nightclub, allegedly involving a dispute over a bar bill. Jail records show Maualuga was booked and held briefly . . . The Broncos promoted Austin Traylor from the practice squad to bolster a thin tight end corps, and released injured tight end A.J. Derby (shoulder). Derby, acquired from New England in a trade last year, had 19 catches for 224 yards and two TDs . . . The Ravens activated running back Danny Woodhead (hamstring) from injured reserve, making him eligible to play Sunday against Green Bay . . . J.C. Caroline, a College Football Hall of Famer who played for a decade with the Chicago Bears, died at 84. The Walker Funeral Home in Champaign, Ill., said Caroline died Friday at Carle Hospital. He led the nation in rushing for Illinois in 1953, but played mostly defensive back for the Bears from 1956-65, finishing with 24 career interceptions.
GOLF
Park stumbles in Florida
Sung Hyun Park found her three-stroke lead replaced by a four-way tie for the lead after three rounds at the LPGA’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Fla. Michelle Wie, who missed six weeks after an emergency appendectomy, shot 6-under-par 66 and was tied for the lead with Kim Kaufman (64), Ariya Jutanugarn (67), and Suzann Pettersen (69). The group is at 10-under 206. Park, who didn’t make a birdie until the 13th hole and shot 75, is one of seven players a shot behind . . . Justin Rose shot a 7-under 65 to take a one-shot lead over Dylan Frittelli (63) and Jon Rahm (65) into the final round of the European Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship in Dubai. Rose is at 15-under 201 overall . . . PGA rookie Austin Cook shot a 4-under 66 to take a three-stroke lead over Chris Kirk in the RSM Classic at St. Simons Island, Ga. He had five birdies and a bogey to reach 18-under 194.
OLYMPICS
‘Pocket Hercules’ dies at 50
Naim Suleymanoglu, the Turkish weightlifter known as “Pocket Hercules’’ who won three straight Olympic gold medals from 1988-96, died. He was 50. He died at an Istanbul hospital where he was being treated for cirrhosis of the liver. He had been in intensive care since Sept. 28 and had a liver transplant in October, according to Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency. Considered one of the sport’s greatest athletes, Suleymanoglu got his nickname for his strength and diminutive size (4 feet 10 inches) . . . The Australian Olympic Committee said Gillian Rolton, who won one of her two Olympic equestrian golds while riding with a broken collarbone, died Saturday after battling endometrial cancer. She was 61 . . . Nina Roth led her team to a 7-6 win to take the best-of-three playoff at the United States curling trials in Omaha and earn the American women’s spot in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea.
MISCELLANY
Goffin knocks off Federer
David Goffin ended Roger Federer’s bid for a seventh ATP Finals title by stunning the No. 2 seed, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the semifinals in London. On Sunday, the seventh-seeded Goffin faces Grigor Dimitrov, a 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 winner over American Jack Sock . . . Former Providence Bruins coach Rob Murray, now coaching the ECHL’s Tulsa Oilers, collapsed on the bench during Friday night’s game against the Quad City Mallards in Moline, Ill. He was taken to a local hospital, where the team said he was being treated for dehydration and exhaustion . . . Cleveland Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert will be out a week with a sore left knee . . . The New York Yankees acquired 17-year-old Dominican pitching prospect Juan Then and lefthander J.P. Sears from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for righty reliever Nick Rumbelow.
