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| Steelers ink first-round pick Mendenhall |
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07/25/2008 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (Best E Casino) - The Pittsburgh Steelers signed running back Rashard Mendenhall, their first selection in this year's NFL Draft, to a five- year contract Friday. The 23rd overall selection rushed for 2,539 yards and 22 touchdowns in three seasons at Illinois. He also caught 59 passes for 564 yards and five touchdowns. The 5-foot-10, 225-pounder, the first running back selected with the Steelers' first pick since 1989, was a 2008 Doak Walker Award and Maxwell Award semifinalist in his junior seaso |
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| Steelers sign QB Dixon |
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07/14/2008 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (Best E Casino) - The Pittsburgh Steelers signed former Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon to a three-year contract on Monday. Dixon, who was a fifth-round choice in the 2008 draft, was named the Pac-10 offensive player of the year -- guiding the Ducks to an 8-1 record and a BCS ranking as high as two -- before suffering a season-ending knee injury. He racked up 6,337 yards of total offense, completing 444-of-695 passes and threw for 38 touchdowns in his Oregon career. The fleet-footed signal caller |
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| Steelers release Najeh Davenport |
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06/28/2008 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (Best E Casino) - The Pittsburgh Steelers released running back Najeh Davenport Saturday. Davenport rushed for 499 yards and five touchdowns in 15 games last season, but was deemed expendable after the Steelers inked free agent running back Mewelde Moore and used their first pick in this year's draft to select running back Rashard Mendenhall. The 29-year-old University of Miami-Florida product spent his first four NFL seasons with the Green Bay Packers before signing with the Steelers in 2006. Dav |
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| Eagles bring back veteran DT |
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06/13/2008 |
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| e Eagles. A sixth-round selection in the 1994 draft by Cincinnati, von Oelhoffen has compiled 399 tackles, 26 1/2 sacks, three forced fumbles and seven fumble recoveries during his 14-year career. He has spent seasons with the Bengals (1994-99), the Pittsburgh Steelers (2000-05) and the New York Jets (2006). The 37-year-old's most productive season came in 2003 with the Steelers, when he tallied 40 tackles and eight sacks. In other roster news, Philly signed guard Mike Gibson and linebacker Andy Studebaker -- both |
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| Ex-Steeler star Dwight White dies at 58 |
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06/06/2008 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Dwight White, the Steel Curtain defensive end known as ``Mad Dog'' who helped lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl titles in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 58. The Steelers said White died at a Pittsburgh hospital. The cause was not disclosed. The team said White was released from the hospital after having back surgery, but then was readmitted with complications. White is the second member of the original four-man Steel Curtain to die this year. Defensive tackle Ernie Holmes died |
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| Steelers mourn death of Dwight White |
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06/06/2008 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (Best E Casino) - Former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Dwight White has died at the age of 58. The Steelers did not release details, saying only that funeral services will be Wednesday in Pittsburgh. White was a member of the Steel Curtain defense that helped the Steelers win four Super Bowl titles in the 1970s. He was also voted to the franchise's 75th season all-time team. "Dwight White was one of the greatest players to ever wear a Steelers uniform," said Steelers chairman Dan Rooney in a s |
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| Former Steelers DE Dwight White dead at 58 |
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06/06/2008 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Dwight White, part of the Steel Curtain defense that led the team to four Super Bowl championships in the 1970s, has died following surgery at a Pittsburgh hospital. He was 58. The team announced White's death Friday. Team president Art Rooney II is calling White ``an important member of the Steelers family.'' Chairman Dan Rooney praised White's ``relentlessness'' on the field and his caring nature off it. Rooney notes White scored the team's first |
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| Milwaukee's Zduriencik drafts future Brewers stars |
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06/04/2008 |
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| e, Pa., a blue collar community about 40 miles from Pittsburgh, grew up the son of a steel mill worker and spent three summers doing it himself near the Ohio-Pennsylvania line. He's still tied to those roots, keeping a signed mini-helmet of former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll in his office along with his baseball memorabilia. After a stint coaching college and high school baseball and football, he joined the scouting ranks, rising to scouting director for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1991-93. There, h |
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| Jets' Faneca discusses life with epilepsy |
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05/28/2008 |
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| long as I'm on my medication, I'm fine.'' Faneca, who hasn't had a seizure in several years, refused to let the condition prevent him from becoming a star offensive lineman at LSU, and then a Super Bowl-winning, seven-time Pro Bowl guard with the Pittsburgh Steelers. ``It's a little bit of a shocker when you're in high school and all of the sudden, you find out, epilepsy, and boom,'' the 31-year-old Faneca said. ``All of the sudden, you get to quality-of-life questions and then you get to sports. I was able a |
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| Jags' Meier gets contract extension |
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05/15/2008 |
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| as traded to the Buffalo Bills in March for draft picks. Meier played in all 16 games last season with nine starts, and recorded four sacks and 27 tackles. The 30-year-old Meier is entering his ninth season in the NFL and has 19.5 sacks and 185 tackles in 123 games, all with the Jaguars. Jacksonville was 11-5 last season and clinched one of the two AFC wild card spots. They knocked off the Pittsburgh Steelers on the opening weekend of the playoffs before losing to the New England Patriots in the divisional round. |
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