Take 5: Patriots, pass-rush, Patrick Mahomes
By The Pitt News Staff
September 19, 2018
Filed under Sports, Sports Columns
In a week with an abundance of compelling NFL storylines, The Pitt News staff provides some insight on the top talking points.
Forbes Field phenomenon: Remembering the last flagless football game
By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor
September 12, 2018
Filed under 2. Featured, Football, Sports
More than 70 years have gone by since the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Philadelphia Eagles 7-3 in the NFL's last game without penalties.
Analysis: Social implications of personal identification to sports
By David Leftwich | Senior Staff Writer
January 24, 2018
Filed under Sports, Sports Features
The City of Pittsburgh took a collective gut punch last weekend as the Steelers suffered a 45-42 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars to end the season. Beyond the more than 60,000 people who flocked to Heinz Field to sit in 20-degree weather and watch the loss live, around 20 million people at home invested abo...
Editorial: Critics of anthem protests aren’t patriotic
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 24, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
When the Steelers walked onto the field before yesterday’s game against the Chicago Bears, the booing they received wasn’t just because they were the away team. Shortly before the game began, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin told Jamie Erdahl of CBS Sports that Pittsburgh’s NFL team would rem...
Pouncey powers Steelers offense
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
September 20, 2016
Filed under Sports
At age 27, Pittsburgh Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey has already been through a career’s worth of devastating injuries, yet he always finds a way to return to All-Pro form. After his worst injury scare yet, Pouncey is back to leading the Steelers’ offensive line –– and he looks better t...
Boyd returns as Pittsburgh opponent
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
September 18, 2016
Filed under Sports
A strong start in former Pitt wide receiver Tyler Boyd’s Heinz Field homecoming turned into a nightmare finish for the Cincinnati Bengals rookie. Boyd returned home Sunday to the stadium where he spent three years torching secondaries with the Panthers –– this time as a member of the Pittsburgh Steel...
No Bell, No Bryant, No Problem: Steelers roll in D.C.
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
September 13, 2016
Filed under Sports
As a national audience witnessed Monday night, rumors of the 2016 Pittsburgh Steelers’ demise were greatly exaggerated. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger shined, and Antonio Brown further staked his claim as the best wide receiver in the NFL with a pair of touchdown catches in the Steelers’ 38-16 s...
NFL season preview: Steelers to send Green Bay packing in Super Bowl LI
By Steve Rotstein / Sports Editor
September 6, 2016
Filed under Sports
When the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers square off on Thursday night, it will be exactly seven months since the Broncos defeated the Panthers in Super Bowl 50, 24-10. The Super Bowl rematch to kick off the 2016-17 NFL season will mark the first time since 1970 the previous year’s Super Bowl o...
Brady McCollough finds story in sport
By Conner Blose / For The Pitt News
February 5, 2016
Filed under Sports, Sports Features
Well before Brady McCollough appeared on CNN to discuss his interviews with former football players, he tackled subjects a little closer to home. As an elementary school sports fanatic, McCollough was already hard at work — he made his own magazine with profiles of his favorite players and confro...
Gallery: Pittsburgh Steelers Rally 1/16/16
By Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor
January 15, 2016
Filed under Visual
Burfict problematic, not the problem in NFL’s roughness epidemic
By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor
January 11, 2016
Filed under Football, Sports, Sports Columns
Vontaze Burfict and Adam “Pacman” Jones signed, sealed and delivered a playoff victory to the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday. Thanks to the two Cincinnati Bengals’ defenders’ personal foul calls against them on an incomplete pass that saw Burfict drill star Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown in ...