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(Reuters) – Pittsburgh have suspended running back Rashard Mendenhall one game for conduct detrimental to the team, the Steelers said on Tuesday. Mendenhall has been the Steelers’ leading rusher in the previous three seasons but has played in just four games this campaign because of injuries. According to local media reports, Mendenhall failed to show [...]
(Reuters) – Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is out of the Pittsburgh Steeler’s divisional clash with the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday with a shoulder injury, the team said on Wednesday. Veteran back-up Byron Leftwich will make his first start for the Steelers, replacing the two-times Super Bowl winner Roethlisberger. Roethlisberger sprained the sternoclavicular joint in his right [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — ESPN’s viewers apparently let them hear it loud and clear about the network’s coverage of Tim Tebow. The Tebow-heavy coverage drew complaints from viewers and readers who want variety and who care more about the action on the field, wrote ESPN ombudsman Kelly McBride of the Poynter Review Project on [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Browns QB Colt McCoy was temporarily knocked out of their Thursday night meet with the Steelers by a jarring helmet-to-helmet hit from Steelers OLB James Harrison. Today, McCoy’s father is saying the second-year pro should not have been allowed back on the field two plays later. “He never should’ve gone [...]
Devin McCourty #32 of the New England Patriots stops Miles Austin #19 of the Dallas Cowboys in the second half at Gillette Stadium on October 16, 2011 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The Patriots won 20-16. (October 15, 2011 – Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images North America) (PhatzRadio / SI) — Interesting matchup at Heinz Field Sunday [...]
James Harrison #92 of the Pittsburgh Steelers sacks Tarvaris Jackson #7 of the Seattle Seahawks during the game on September 18, 2011 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers defeated the Seahawks 24-0. (September 17, 2011 – Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images North America) (PhatzRadio / SI) — The Steelers’ season may be [...]
WASHINGTON — A fifth consecutive day of meetings with a federal mediator yielded no collective bargaining agreement Tuesday between the NFL and the players’ union, which postponed a gathering Thursday with a small group of powerful agents as discussions continue. The CBA expires at 11:59 p.m. on March 3, and the union expects the league [...]
NFL owners want an expanded 18-game regular season by 2012. Commissioner Roger Goodell calls it a way to “present the best football” to fans. The NFL players union and its members, who have taken the hard knocks of a 16-game schedule since 1978, say replacing two preseason games with two played for keeps is not [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch emerged with a smile and a positive outlook Monday after attending a fourth consecutive day of federally mediated negotiations between the NFL and the players’ union. “Things are going well right now,” said Batch, a member of the NFL Players Association executive committee. “We’ll see how things [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, union executive director DeMaurice Smith and members of their negotiating teams participated in a second consecutive six-hour session with a federal mediator Saturday, trying to spur progress less than two weeks before the league’s labor deal expires. They’re finally talking to each other – but they’re not revealing [...]
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