The Chicago Bears have decided to release embattled kicker Cody Parkey after one season, a person familiar with the decision said Friday.
Signed to a four-year contract in March, Parkey made just 23 of 30 field goals during the regular season for the third-lowest success rate in the NFL. He was 42-for-45 on extra points.
Six of his misses, counting the playoffs, hit uprights, including a 43-yard attempt in the closing seconds of the Bears' wild-card loss to Philadelphia at Soldier Field that also ricocheted off the crossbar and was famously labeled the "double doink."
Parkey's appearance on the "Today" show a few days later did not sit well with the Bears' hierarchy. "I didn't necessarily think that that was too much of a 'we' thing," coach Matt Nagy said then.
The kicking game was one of the few sore spots in the Bears' NFC North championship season.
Steelers keep lineman
• The Pittsburgh Steelers re-signed defensive lineman Tyson Alualu to a two-year contract. Alualu, 31, has made 61 tackles, with four sacks, in 31 games for the Steelers since signing with the team as a free agent in 2017.
Track and field
Testosterone case closes
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said it will decide by March 26 whether to put in place proposed hormone regulations that would force female athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone to lower them through medication to compete at world-class events.
Caster Semenya, two-time Olympic 800-meter champion from South Africa, appealed to the court, saying the regulations discriminate against her and her "genetic gift." The IAAF argued that regulations were needed because Semenya and others have testosterone levels in the male range, giving them an unfair advantage.
