Peyton Manning will not go through with a defamation lawsuit against Al Jazeera America because he doesn’t want to make public the personal records and private lives of himself and his wife, USA Today Sports reported Wednesday.
Manning said in December he would "probably" sue the cable news outlet after it aired a documentary on doping in sports in which it was reported Peyton and Ashley Manning received shipments of human growth hormone.
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Peyton Manning, who retired in March after quarterbacking the Broncos to a victory in Super Bowl 50, called the report "garbage" and "a complete joke" shortly after it aired in December.