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| Jaguars Try to Maintain Steel City Mastery |
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01/03/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The Jacksonville Jaguars will be out to accomplish a unique first on Saturday night at Heinz Field, when Jack Del Rio's team faces the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC First-Round playoff matchup. Jacksonville, which scored a 29-22 win in the Steel City back in Week 15, will be vying to become the first visiting team in NFL history to win in Pittsburgh twice in the same campaign. Only two previous teams have had a chance to pull off the feat, but both the 1978 Houston Oilers and 2001 Baltimore Rav |
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| Bill Stewart promoted to West Virginia football coach |
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01/03/2008 |
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| an Football League. Don Nehlen, the retired Mountaineers coach who hired Stewart, was glad his former assistant had landed the job. ``He's just such a good person and the kids love him,'' Nehlen said. ``It's such a good fit with the program.'' Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin got his first coaching job when Stewart hired him as an assistant at VMI. Tomlin was elated to see Stewart get the West Virginia job. ``Bill Stewart!'' Tomlin said at the Steelers' practice when told of the hiring. ``That's the b |
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| Report: Dolphins renew Ricky Williams' contract |
NFL Football |
01/03/2008 |
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| e vice president of football operations Bill Parcells informing him of the decision. Steinberg also indicated that Williams is doing well in his rehabilitation from a torn pectoral muscle that ended his 2007 season after just six carries against the Pittsburgh Steelers on November 26. Williams returned to the NFL this season after being reinstated by commissioner Roger Goodell following an 18-month suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy. The 1998 Heisman Trophy winner from Texas spent his fir |
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| Fading Steelers Not a Popular Playoff Pick |
NFL Football |
01/03/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The Pittsburgh Steelers very nearly received the piece of positive momentum they sorely needed entering the 2007 playoffs. Having trimmed a 27-7 fourth-quarter deficit to the Baltimore Ravens to 27-21 with 3:36 to play, and even with key stars like Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward, and Troy Polamalu sitting on the bench for precautionary reasons, the Steelers had a chance to secure a surprising come-from-behind win. Backup QB Charlie Batch, who had been in the line of fire behind the team's patch |
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| Chargers In Prime Position Heading Into Postseason |
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01/02/2008 |
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| gest thing for me is I want to continue playing well, and that means going in and doing the best we can and winning the football game," Turner said before the Week 17 regular season finale. "That gets us the No. 3 seed. That is important." While the Pittsburgh Steelers were laying down to the hapless Baltimore Ravens, Turner's Chargers were grinding out a hard-fought 30-17 victory in Oakland. Turner was able to sell his players on the significance of the final game by pointing out that the AFC three seed a year ag |
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| Patriots Re-Wrote Record Books This Season |
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01/02/2008 |
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| h quarter for the game's only turnover. The Patriots have won 48 games in a row with the turnover advantage. - The Patriots held the ball for 36 minutes and 18 seconds. UP NEXT The Patriots will have a bye in the first round of the playoffs and homefield advantage throughout. The popular pick for their divisional-round game in two weeks is the Jacksonville Jaguars, who boast a strong running attack and are one of the hottest teams in the NFL. The Jags would have to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round. |
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| If momentum counts for anything, Redskins are primed for playoffs |
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01/02/2008 |
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| he playoffs as a division champion. He also knows what it's like to win four straight at the end of the regular season to snag the final postseason berth. Guess which year he won his Super Bowl ring. It was the underdog year, of course, when the Pittsburgh Steelers of two seasons ago became the first team to win three playoffs games on the road before capturing the NFL title. The year before, the Steelers were a 15-1 team that lost its edge in January and fell in the AFC championship game. That's why Randle |
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| Big Ben's throwing may be Steelers' only chance of beating Jaguars |
NFL Football |
01/02/2008 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh Steelers' MVP in the eyes of almost everyone except his teammates, couldn't be more irritated. Everywhere he goes in the Steelers' practice complex, he can't get away from the Jaguars - much like he couldn't while being sacked five times during Jacksonville's 29-22 victory in Pittsburgh three weeks ago. The tape of the Steelers' only home loss this season is being looped constantly in their meeting rooms, the players' lounge, the team offices. It's all Ja |
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| Jaguars' Taylor criticizes Steelers' terrible turf |
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01/01/2008 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Fred Taylor isn't worried as much about the Pittsburgh Steelers' home-field advantage as he is their bad field. Taylor, the Jaguars' star running back, chided the Steelers on Tuesday for their substandard grass field. He and suggested they spend $1 million on artificial turf to improve one of the NFL's worst playing surfaces. The Jaguars play an AFC wild-card game in Pittsburgh on Saturday night, their second visit there in less than a month. ``That field is terrible,'' Taylor said in a c |
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| Steelers' worrisome injury list for playoffs: long, and still growing |
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01/01/2008 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin keeps erasing names on that depth chart on his office wall. Many teams list players three deep at most positions, but the Steelers can't begin to do that. Two-deep? Can't do that, either. At left tackle, there's Trai Essex, then no one. At fullback, there's Carey Davis, then no one. At right tackle, there's Willie Colon, then no one. And if these Steelers lose to Jacksonville at home Saturday night in the AFC playoffs? Tomlin's thinking is they will h |
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