SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock University football team has moved up to No. 8 in the Super Region One rankings this week.

The top six teams at the conclusion of the regular season this weekend will qualify for the NCAA Division II playoffs. Six of the top eight teams play each other Saturday.

SRU hosts No. 1 Bloomsburg at 12:30 p.m. in the PSAC championship game. No. 2 Concord plays No. 6 Shepherd and No. 4 Winston-Salem State meets No. 7 Virginia State.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Four Slippery Rock University men's soccer players have earned All-PSAC honors.Senior Stephen Donnelly and junior Ryan Boylan made first team. Donnelly had 13 goals and 33 points while Boylan anchored SRU's defensive line.Junior Peter Boylan and senior Dom Francis made second team. Both scored seven goals this season.

NEW YORK — For the third straight year, baseball's free agents shunned qualifying offers from their former teams and chose to test the market.All 12 free agents who were given the $15.3 million offers last week chose not to accept by Monday's 5 p.m. EST deadline.In the three offseasons of the current collective bargaining agreement, none of the 34 qualifying offers have been accepted.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The NFL Players Association has filed an expedited grievance with the NFL to reinstate Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson.The NFLPA cited “explicit language in a signed agreement” from Sept. 18, when Peterson was placed on a special commissioner's exempt list following his indictment on felony child abuse in Texas. Peterson pleaded no contest last Tuesday to a lesser charge of misdemeanor reckless assault, freeing him from the court system provided he fulfills the terms of his probation.The league began a review Thursday of his case under the personal conduct policy.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ray McDonald can continue playing for the San Francisco 49ers without the burden of a domestic violence case that has followed him all season.The Santa Clara County district attorney's office announced that it declined to file charges against the defensive lineman in an investigation stemming from his Aug. 31 arrest.