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| Barkley, Forcier no ordinary freshmen QBs |
Division I College Football |
09/16/2009 |
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| He also studied under Steve Clarkson, one of the first and most famous personal quarterback tutors in the country. Clarkson, a three-year starting quarterback at San Jose State in the early 1980s, has worked with Leinart, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen. Forcier is from San Diego and playing quarterback is a family tradition - one older brother was a backup for Michigan, the other for UCLA. He has been training with Marv Marinovich, father of former USC quarterbac |
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| Brady, Harris and Reed earn AFC weekly honors |
NFL Football |
09/16/2009 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, New York Jets linebacker David Harris and Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Jeff Reed have been selected as the AFC's top players for Week 1 of the NFL season. Brady captured the offensive honor after leading the Patriots to a 25-24 come- from-behind win over the Buffalo Bills on Monday night. He hit Benjamin Watson for a pair of touchdowns in the waning minutes, the last a 16-yard strike occurring with 50 seconds remaining in the game after Buf |
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| Nevada judge won't move Roethlisberger case |
NFL Football |
09/16/2009 |
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -A judge has denied a motion to move the civil sexual assault case against Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and Lake Tahoe casino employees from Reno to Douglas County. Washoe District Judge Brent Adams in Reno on Wednesday ruled that one named defendant, Harrah's Lake Tahoe executive Dave Monroe, has residences in both Douglas and Washoe counties and therefore Reno was a proper venue. Adams also said there's no reason to believe an impartial jury cannot be found in |
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| Charges dropped vs. former Steelers' ex-girlfriend |
NFL Football |
09/16/2009 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Prosecutors have dropped a weapons charge against the ex-girlfriend of former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Cedrick Wilson stemming from a standoff at his former home last year. Allegheny County District Attorney's spokesman Mike Manko says the charge against 28-year-old Lindsey Paulat, of Fawn, was dropped Tuesday because a recent state Supreme Court decision says it's not always criminal to fire a weapon in a residence. The charge dropped was discharging a weapon in an occupied structure. |
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| NFC West: 49ers may have finally found winning formula |
NFL Football |
09/15/2009 |
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| s by a 23-17 score in Week 1. ARIZONA: Call it a Super Bowl hangover or simply a lack of proper focus, but the Cardinals hardly resembled the team that strung together three memorable wins to capture the NFC Championship back in January and gave the Pittsburgh Steelers all they could handle in the title game during their Week 1 loss to the 49ers. Arizona's offense had trouble establishing a rhythm all throughout Sunday's tilt, while a defense that looked so good during last year's postseason run failed to come up |
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| AFC North: Steelers hope to avoid 2006 repeat |
NFL Football |
09/15/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - For a second straight time, the Pittsburgh Steelers needed to rally in their first game as defending Super Bowl champions. That wasn't the best way to put the ghosts of 2006 behind them. After knocking off the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL, the Steelers opened the following 2006 season versus the Miami Dolphins. They trailed that contest, 17-14, heading into the fourth quarter before getting an 87-yard touchdown pass by Charlie Batch (Ben Roethlisberger was out because of an emergency appen |
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| NFC North: How will Bears move on? |
NFL Football |
09/15/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - There was no way to cast this one in a positive light. Six days before they would be forced to deal with the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, the Chicago Bears were discussing how they could possibly move on following the season-ending wrist injury that had knocked the face of the franchise, Brian Urlacher, out of commission one day before. That the injury, a dislocation that required surgery, came in a 21-15 loss to the hated Green Bay Packers was like rubbing a mountain of s |
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| AFC South: Already time to push panic button in Houston? |
NFL Football |
09/15/2009 |
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| s will Derrick Harvey, the team's first-round draft pick last season who has been slow to progress. "Derrick's a good player," said Del Rio of Harvey. "He's working at it." TITANS: The Titans' 13-10 overtime loss to the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers was a good news-bad news scenario, with the worst news coming in the result on the scoreboard at game's end. The silver linings lay in Tennessee's ability to bottle up the Pittsburgh running game (23 carries, 36 yards) in its first meaningful game w |
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| Reed's FG pushes Steelers past Titans in OT |
NFL Football |
09/11/2009 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (MySportsbook) - Jeff Reed's 33-yard field goal split the uprights in overtime -- allowing Hines Ward to exhale -- and giving the defending Super Bowl-champion Pittsburgh Steelers a 13-10 victory over Tennessee in the season opener for both teams. Without a ground game, Ben Roethlisberger worked in a no-huddle offense down the stretch in orchestrating his 18th come-from-behind victory since 2004, the most in the NFL during that stretch. "I didn't want to start these fourth-quarter comebacks alrea |
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| Polamalu hurts knee, may miss 3-6 weeks |
NFL Football |
09/11/2009 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee late in the first half of their 13-10 overtime victory against Tennessee on Thursday night. Coach Mike Tomlin said the injury usually sidelines a player from 3 to 6 weeks. ``They are reading the scans and so forth,'' Tomlin said. ``It is speculation (how long Polamalu will be out) at this point.'' Polamalu was injured when a Titans player fell on him as Steelers defensive end Aaron Smit |
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