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ALLEN PARK, Mich. - Detroits hopes of winning a playoff game for the first time since 1991 took a huge hit in the form of Ndamukong Suh.The NFL announced Monday that the Lions defensive tackle had been suspended for this weekends wild-card playoff game in Dallas for a violation of safety-related playing rules against Green Bay in the season finale. Suh got in trouble for stepping on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers left leg twice, once with each foot. Suh also applied pressure and pushed off Rodgers unprotected leg with his left foot, violating unnecessary roughness rules, the league said.Suh, who will be reinstated next Monday, can appeal the suspension within three days. He can ask for an expedited appeal, which would be heard by Ted Cottrell, a hearing officer employed by the NFL and the players union.Suh did not speak with reporters at the Lions practice facility.Lions centre Dominic Raiola, coming off his own one-game ban for a similar incident, was enraged by the suspension.The play ... he wasnt even looking at (Rodgers). Raiola said. He was getting pushed back a little bit. It was ridiculous what Fox did right after it. It was crazy, watching it. I couldnt even listen to those guys after he did it.There is no way, at that point in the game, that he did something like that on purpose. No way.Added teammate Larry Warford: Its part of what has been happening around here. Obviously, theyre going to be stricter on us. That is just a fact of what happened a week before.Theyre obviously a lot stricter with our team, Warford continued, referring to the NFL. Its something we have to fight through. A little adversity. Well make it through.Suh is a repeat offender with a long list of fines and one previous suspension, for two games in 2011 for stepping on the right arm of Packers lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith. Suh has been fined seven times in his career, but this is the first in 2014.Its a huge loss, defensive end Darryl Tapp said. Its Ndamukong Suh. We do a lot of things with him on the defence. We build a lot of stuff around him. But its not nothing we cant overcome. We have to overcome it. Its the playoffs. Win or go home. Well have to sell out to get our brother back, and hopefully we can do that.The Lions boast the No. 1 rushing defence in the league, limiting opposing teams to just 69.3 rushing yards per game. But the Packers racked up 152 yards on the ground in their NFC North-clinching win over the Lions on Sunday — the most Detroit has surrendered all season.In fact, the Lions hadnt allowed a team to amass 100 or more yards on the ground since a win at the Jets on Sept. 28.Our defence has been really strong in that area all through the year, when you look at it statistically, coach Jim Caldwell said. There have been very few teams that have been able to run it on us with any regularity, except for yesterday. Obviously, they ran the ball us on extremely well. We have some things to get worked out, and thats our job.Now, the Lions must regroup in time to shut down the most productive running back in the league this season: DeMarco Murray, whose 115.3 yards-per-game average is 20 yards per game more than anyone else in the NFL.And the front seven will be without the dynamic presence of Suh and, in all likelihood, Nick Fairley, who hasnt played since suffering a knee injury against Atlanta on Oct. 26. Caldwell said he cant rule out the possibility that Fairley plays but that it would be a miracle.With Suh sidelined, pending the appeal process, the responsibility to clog up the middle of the field will fall to the rest of the defensive linemen, such as C.J. Mosley and ends Ziggy Ansah and Andre Fluellen. Even Tapp, who normally lines up on the outside, may be asked to play some tackle.Tapp, who spent the last three seasons within the Cowboys division at Philadelphia and Washington, knows what kind of challenge the Dallas offence poses.Murray runs very hard, and hes very explosive, Tapp said. Their offensive line is as advertised. They always get guys who are big, strong and athletic.___AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner contributed to this report.___Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL Discount Air Max 97 . Globo TV and other news outlets said early Monday that Scolari will not remain as coach after the national teams failure to win the World Cup at home. Air Max 97 Clearance . Ashley Wagner will skate in the womens short program for a U.S. team thats in seventh place. 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A decision on whether to go ahead with a slalom scheduled for Sunday on the same Podkoren course will be made shortly before that race. Organizers first delayed the start of the GS by half an hour but conditions failed to improve. "The race line was quite good but we had a lot of loose snow on the outside," FIS race director Atle Skaardal said. "And then in connection with the freezing rain and the bad visibility, the complete situation was not acceptable." FIS says 200 course workers had been working all morning to clear over a meter of fresh snow, but rain and fog were limiting visibility for the racers on the softened course. "I am convinced it was the right decision," Skaardal said. "The organizing committee have done a tremendous job over the last days and hours to even bring us in the position this morning to consider to start a race because you saw how extreme everything was." Despite rain being forecast for the rest of the day, Skaardal judgedd the chances for Sundays slalom as "quite good.ddddddddddddquot; "Its a shorter event. We need only 550 metres length which is less than 50 per cent of the giant slalom," he said. "This makes it easier as we have more people to work on a smaller area." The 50th edition of the annual Zlata Lisica event was moved from another Slovenian resort, Maribor, because of a lack of snow there. The GS will likely be rescheduled after the Olympics, though the tight schedule doesnt leave FIS many options, according to Skaardal. Jessica Lindell-Vikarby leads the GS World Cup standings with 332 points, 120 clear of Swedish teammate Maria Pietilae-Holmner. Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein, Austrian pair Anna Fenninger and Kathrin Zettel, and American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin are all within 10 points of Pietilae-Holmner. Austria womens head coach Jurgen Kriechbaum said that "coaches were unanimous, the weather is just too bad." "The course is not good enough to stage a race with these conditions," Kriechbaum said. "The organizers wanted to stage the race at all costs but its useless under these circumstances." ' ' '