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It's A Little Surprising Cody Wallace Was Only Fined For This Brutal, Late Helmet-To-Helmet Hit
While everyone was paying attention to the fallout from Odell Beckham’s assault on Josh Norman (with good reason), another late, dangerous hit targeting a player’s head flew a little under the radar. The NFL noticed, but decided Steelers center Cody Wallace launching himself head-first at Broncos sa...

Cool, The Steelers And Bengals Hate Each Other
Pretty much everything went the Steelers’ way in yesterday’s 33-20 win over Cincinnati, a game that held both insult and injury for the Bengals. For the former, there was William Gay’s minute-long touchdown celebration, that continued up to and through an excessive-celebration flag. For the latter, ...

William Gay Flagged For Extra-Excessive Celebration
Look, defensive players don’t score many touchdowns. And the Steelers’ bar for excessive celebration was set pretty high last weekend. So we don’t begrudge William Gay one bit for this celebration that lasted the better part of half a minute—or the officials for throwing a flag on it....

Andy Dalton Knocked Out Of Game With Thumb Injury
Andy Dalton hurt his thumb throwing an interception down in the red zone today on the above play. He will not return to the game....

Steelers And Bengals Do Some Shoving At Midfield Before Game
The Pittsburgh Steelers are in Cincinnati for a big divisional game today, and as such, they’re fired up. Because everyone’s pumped and Vontaze Burfict was involved, this happened....

Mike Swap
The Pittsburgh Penguins fired coach Mike Johnston today and named Mike Sullivan their new coach. The new Mike was serving as coach of the Penguins’ very succesful AHL affiliate....

Antonio Brown's Touchdown Celebration Is The Greatest Moment Of The NFL Season, So Watch It Over And Over Again
Of course this touchdown celebration was penalized, because there is a legislated limit on the amount of awesome in one NFL play—and Antonio Brown blew right past it. Invent a Heisman Trophy for the NFL and award it to him now....

Pitt RB James Conner Diagnosed With Lymphoma
University of Pittsburgh running back James Conner was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma this week, as he announced yesterday. In a school press release, Conner said:...

Ben Roethlisberger's Trying Really Hard To Pretend He Doesn't Have A Concussion
Ben Roethlisberger is a resilient guy who will generally try to play through just about any injury, but his brain bouncing off the inside of his skull is a bridge too far. The Steelers quarterback took himself out of Sunday’s game against Seattle, and he’s still suffering the effects. The team’s ada...

Evgeni Malkin Scores One Of The Best Goals Of The NHL Season
The Edmonton Oilers got a rare win last night in Pittsburgh against Evgeni Malkin and the Penguins. But the Penguins did send it to a shootout, on a comeback that Evgeni Malkin started here. He now has two of the prettiest goals I’ve seen all year....

Evgeni Malkin's Beautiful Dangle Was Exactly What The Penguins Needed
Heading into last night, the Penguins were a respectable 10-7-0, but they weren’t scoring. Marc-Andre Fleury has been amazing, but the offense—headed by two of the best players in the world in Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, and bolstered by the offseason addition of Phil Kessel—had been bloodless....

This Antonio Brown Flip Is The Best Touchdown Celebration
Pittsburgh is hosting Cleveland today and, despite losing starter Landry Jones to an early injury, they have a healthy lead late in the fourth. This is partially because Antonio Brown’s two touchdowns, the second of which he celebrated with this impressive flip....

College Basketball Game In Japan Cancelled After Wet Floor Causes Injuries
Pittsburgh and #9-ranked Gonzaga began their seasons yesterday at Foster Field House in the Marine Corps base on Okinawa, Japan, or at least they tried to. A slippery floor surface caused all manner of slips and falls, including the particularly gnarly one below, and the game was called off at halft...

Nah, That's Not Right
Asheville, N.C. ABC station WLOS tried a bit of pre-game prognostication on its early morning show today. There are... some problems here. (Given all three picked Pitt to win, is it possible they actually believed Notre Dame is playing the Steelers?) Anyway, misspellings and such aside even big-boy ...

Phil Kessel Cross-Checks, Gets Called A "Fucking Fat Fuck"
Penguins winger Phil Kessel normally tends to get mad, but Wednesday night, he was bad. Kessel cross-checked Canucks winger Derek Dorsett, prompting a crowd of players near the benches. The Penguin got a deserved penalty for it, but Dorsett was still fuming in the penalty box....

Report: Le'Veon Bell Out For The Season With "Badly Torn" MCL
Le’Veon Bell left the field during today’s loss to the Cincinnati Bengals after catching a pass in the second quarter and getting tackled by Vontaze Burfict. Initial reports out of the Steelers’ locker room were “optimistic,” but unfortunately, Bell’s injury is serious, as multiple prominent NFL rep...

Grown-Ass Man Steals Puck Meant For Little Kid
Buffalo Sabres coach Dan Bylsma was just trying to do something that happens hundreds of times a year at NHL games: tossing a puck that ended up in the bench area to a little kid in the crowd. This time, some self-important man decided to intervene. ...

The NFL Fined Two Players For Honoring Their Dead Mothers
The NFL has fined a player for a really stupid reason. Well, we have to be more specific than that: The NFL has fined a player for publicly supporting a good cause that the league also unequivocally supports. Okay, that still doesn’t narrow it down enough: The NFL has fined Steelers defensive back W...

Syracuse QB Eric Dungey Takes Brutal Helmet-To-Helmet Hit, Comes Back In The Game
#25 Pitt beat Syracuse today on a last-second field goal in the Carrier Dome thanks to two rushing touchdowns by RB Qadree Ollison, who has the best name in college football. In the first play of the second half, Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey was laid out with this vicious helmet-to-helmet hit fr...

The NFL Gets Its Way On Cameron Heyward's Cancer-Awareness Eye Black
Cameron Heyward and the NFL have reached an agreement on his customized eye black: the Steelers defensive end will stop wearing “IRON HEAD” under his cheeks, and the league will make his two weeks of fines “significantly less,” according to ESPN. In other words, the league won....