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| At least Roethlisberger knows next season can't be any worse |
NFL Football |
12/25/2006 |
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| t raise Super Bowl trophies every season, and that winning 27 of his first 31 starts set a pace that would be impossible for any NFL quarterback to match. What he didn't expect was a mess of a season like this. After his first two years with the Pittsburgh Steelers went like those of no other young quarterback in NFL history, with a Super Bowl victory and two AFC championship game appearances, Roethlisberger's third season couldn't have gone much worse. And he knows it. Starting with his near-fatal motorcycl |
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| Ravens stop Steelers, vault into No. 2 seed in AFC |
NFL Football |
12/25/2006 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (MySportsbook) - Steve McNair threw three touchdowns as Baltimore moved in to the second seed in the AFC with a 31-7 shellacking of the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field. McNair went 21-of-31 with 256 yards and two interceptions, and Mark Clayton had seven receptions for 108 yards and a touchdown for the Ravens (12-3), who have won their last three games and, thanks to Indianapolis' 27-24 loss to Houston, and are currently the No. 2 seed in the AFC, behind San Diego. "Coming on the road anytime |
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| NFL Inactives (Sunday, December 24, 2006) |
NFL Football |
12/24/2006 |
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| Tim Jennings, CB T.J. Rushing, TE Dallas Clark, OT Dan Federkell, DE Ryan LaCasse Texans - 3rd QB Quinton Porter, WR Charlie Adams, CB John Walker, S Michael Stone, RB Samkon Gado, OT Scott Jackson, TE Owen Daniels, DT Tim Bulman BALTIMORE RAVENS AT PITTSBURGH STEELERS, 1:00 P.M. (ET) Ravens - CB Jamaine Winborne, CB David Pittman, RB P.J. Daniels, FB Nick Luchey, DT Atiyyah Ellison, OT Jonathan Ogden, WR Devard Darling, WR Clarence Moore Steelers - 3RD QB Brian St. Pierre, S Ryan Clark, S Andre Lott, LB Clint Kri |
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| Win Over Ravens Would Keep Hope Alive for Steelers |
NFL Football |
12/22/2006 |
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| (MySportsbook) - You thought last year was something, huh? Well, should the Pittsburgh Steelers climb out of their hanging-on-by-a- thread-of-a-thread-of-a-thread abyss and actually get themselves into the playoffs with even a chance to defend their Super Bowl title from last February, consider it a worthy encore. Coach Bill Cowher's team needs a litany of positive outcomes - ranging from losses by the Cincinnati Bengals to the capture of Osama Bin Laden - to fully erase the stain left by an inglorious 2-6 star |
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| The last time? Cowher may be coaching his final Steelers home game |
NFL Football |
12/21/2006 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -The Pittsburgh Steelers have known for weeks that Sunday's game against Baltimore would be their last at home this season. A 2-6 start has a way of making the playoffs look out of reach. What they don't know is if it will also be Bill Cowher's final home game as their coach, too. Cowher is weighing whether to retire - he may have already decided to do so - but is refusing to discuss his future until the season ends. His undecided status adds an element of intrigue to what already is one of |
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| Steelers got started only after it seemed they were finished |
NFL Football |
12/21/2006 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -The Pittsburgh Steelers' season didn't get started until they were nearly finished. The Steelers plodded through an unimaginably poor first half of the season, turning the ball over a club-record rate and making numerous special teams mistakes. Only the No. 7 on the back of Ben Roethlisberger's jersey suggested he was the same quarterback who won the Super Bowl at age 23 in February. Only when it seemed the rest of the NFL stopped paying attention, the Steelers (7-7) began making something |
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| Steelers making another December rush - but is it too late? |
NFL Football |
12/21/2006 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -The Pittsburgh Steelers are peaking in December again, a great trait for a team accustomed to playing deep into January. The problem is this season may be over by New Year's Day, because it took the Steelers more than two months to begin to resemble the team that won its final eight games on the way to a championship last season. So, if games against AFC North rivals Baltimore and Cincinnati the next two weeks are Pittsburgh's equivalent of the postseason, the Steelers (7-7) want to perform |
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| Carolina places Wahle, Rucker on IR |
NFL Football |
12/20/2006 |
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| He'll probably have that repaired in the next week or so. He did give it his best effort, and it just finally came to an end." Rucker suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the second quarter of the Panthers' 37-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday when he got tangled up between players. Rucker's season ends with five sacks in 14 games. Earlier this season he became just the second player in franchise history to eclipse the 50-sack mark for a career, joining teammate Julius Peppers. |
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| Enthusiastic Jagodzinski meets new team |
Division I College Football |
12/20/2006 |
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| indicated current BC assistants will be considered. Some may join O'Brien, 58, at North Carolina State. DeFilippo said Jagodzinski's assistants would be paid more than O'Brien's. DeFilippo also interviewed quarterbacks coaches Mark Whipple of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kevin Gilbride of the New York Giants but was impressed by Jagodzinski's passion. ``I could tell in the first 20 minutes of our interview that he was very, very special,'' DeFilippo said. ``We'd worked together for two years previously and we' |
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| Bengals don't step up in the spotlight |
NFL Football |
12/20/2006 |
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| uld lead to another one. Cincinnati can not afford another one. A trip to Mile High to face the Denver Broncos (8-6) is next on the schedule. Cincinnati has lost seven straight in Denver dating back to 1975. The regular season ends against the hated Pittsburgh Steelers (7-7), the team that knocked it from the playoffs last season. It doesn't get any easier, especially in the wide-open AFC, where seven teams are still fighting for two spots. The Bengals end the campaign with two of those teams. "You can't expect to |
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