It’s very easy to ridicule the teams in the NFC East. And yes, we will be doing so.
Dale Lolley covers the Steelers for DKPittsburghSports.com and writes a Sunday column for the Observer-Reporter.
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The Las Vegas Raiders placed four starting offensive linemen and safety Johnathan Abram on the reserve/COVID-19 list after they were determined to be close contacts with a teammate who had tested positive for the coronavirus.
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The NHL won’t take it outside and open 2021 with the Winter Classic in Minnesota but still hopes to get the hockey season going around the start of the new year.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Titans have been through so much dealing with the NFL’s first COVID-19 outbreak during the season resulting in one game postponed and rescheduled to a second game pushed to a rare Tuesday night kickoff.
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PITTSBURGH – Sure there are options when facing Derrick Henry. None of them, however, are particularly fun.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – Julie and Lance Smith walked through the mostly empty concourse of Globe Life Field.
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PITTSBURGH – Robert Spillane doesn’t have Devin Bush’s pedigree. He doesn’t have Bush’s speed or game experience either.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Kansas City Chiefs had one of their worst rushing performances in years against the Raiders, signed running back Le’Veon Bell midweek to help them out, then managed to put up some of the best rushing numbers ever for an Andy Reid-coached team before the two-time All-Pr…
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ARLINGTON, Texas – Mike McCarthy is a big believer in winning the turnover battle.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Andrew Friedman isn’t quite torn.
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ATLANTA – There were pained admissions of heartbreak and declarations of hope from players and manager Brian Snitker after the Atlanta Braves fell one win shy of the World Series.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Clyde Edwards-Helaire showed new teammate Le’Veon Bell and the rest of the NFL how dominant the Kansas City Chiefs’ running attack is already.
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PITTSBURGH – The collective body language of Devin Bush’s teammates said it all.
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Thinking back over 50 years in hockey, Mike Emrick can’t name one favorite memory or game, but one story sticks out.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Joey Logano spent the final 40-plus laps at Kansas Speedway keeping an eye on Kevin Harvick in his rear-view mirror.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) – By now, every baseball fan has heard of remarkable rookie Randy Arozarena. They’re fast becoming familiar with his World Series-bound Tampa Bay teammates, too.
If ever there has been a case and point for being careful what you ask for when it comes to free agency, then it is Le’Veon Bell.
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PITTSBURGH – The trappings of a rivalry between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns have lingered even as the results have grown remarkably one-sided.
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The Browns have been pitiful in Pittsburgh – for half a century.
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CLEVELAND (AP) – Baker Mayfield’s injured ribs aren’t the only concern this week for the Browns.
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PITTSBURGH – Ben Roethlisberger predicted Chase Claypool’s breakout.
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BEREA, Ohio – Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield’s ribs are still sore after taking a big hit in Sunday’s win over Indianapolis and he hasn’t even exposed them to the Steelers.
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NEW YORK – The New York Jets have surprisingly released disgruntled running back Le’Veon Bell, ending a disappointing tenure after less than two full seasons.
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The NFL has no plans to move into a bubble as it takes several new steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
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NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans have begun discussions with LSU about holding future Saints home games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, a team spokesman said Tuesday.
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Patrick Marleau is back with the San Jose Sharks.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Back in the ballpark where he started his big league career, Manuel Margot of the Tampa Bay Rays had a breakout game in the AL Championship Series with a three-run home run and a spectacular catch while tumbling over a wall in right field.
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CINCINNATI (AP) – At 5-foot-7, he was the smallest cog in the Big Red Machine. And to his star-powered teammates, Joe Morgan was a driving force, too.
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CLEVELAND – Rising high above downtown Cleveland on an unusually warm autumn night, the Terminal Tower was bathed in bright orange lights on Sunday, a glowing tribute to a team that has this football-obsessed city fired up.
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PITTSBURGH – Stylistically, there are issues. A running game that seems to be all or nothing. A secondary that hasn’t been nearly as consistent as it was in 2019. A defense that seemed to have a strange aversion to getting off the field on third down.
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CONCORD, N.C. – Kyle Busch, leading a race he had to win, not once believed he was driving toward a season-saving victory. He doesn’t even think he can get to victory lane this year.
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ARLINGTON, Texas – Those Baby Braves that faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs two years ago have grown up a little bit, and have even won a couple of postseason series.
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The NFL has juggled its regular-season schedule because of coronavirus outbreaks with the Tennessee Titans and New England Patriots.
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PITTSBURGH – The text message Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool received from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Friday couldn’t have been more direct.
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New York Jets players and coaches have been sent home from their training facility after a presumptive positive coronavirus test, a person with direct knowledge of the test tells the Associated Press.
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PITTSBURGH – Ben Roethlisberger didn’t spend his unexpected weekend off just hanging around. It’s impossible when you’re the father of three young children.
So, we now know the outbreak of COVID-19 cases with the Tennessee Titans is looking like an inside job – as in the Titans largely doing this to themselves.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – Longtime Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman and radio broadcaster Tunch Ilkin has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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The Bills-Titans game has been moved from Sunday to Tuesday night at 7 p.m. EDT as long as Tennessee has no more positive tests for COVID-19 in the interim.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) – The trophy ceremony plans are getting finalized. Boxes are being shipped out of the NBA bubble in advance of the looming shutdown. Hotel rooms, sometime in the next few days, will be filled again by regular people looking for their long-awaited Disney fix.
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PARIS (AP) – Sofia Kenin entered 2020 with an 11-11 record in Grand Slam action. She never had made the quarterfinals at any clay-court tournament until this trip to Roland Garros – and lost her only tuneup match on the surface 6-0, 6-0 last month.
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PITTSBURGH – Three weeks into his comeback from right elbow surgery, Ben Roethlisberger could feel the rust coming off.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The NFL’s investigation into how Tennessee turned into the league’s first COVID-19 outbreak found “several specific incidents” of the Titans possibly breaking protocols dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, according to a person with knowledge of the probe.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James got back to his hotel suite after Game 4 of the NBA Finals early Wednesday morning. At 6:30 a.m., he was already tweeting out images to announce to his 47.6 million followers that he was wide-awake.
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PITTSBURGH – Matt Murray’s time in Pittsburgh is over.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Coach Mike Vrabel says the Tennessee Titans stand by how they’ve followed the NFL’s protocols for the coronavirus pandemic and hope the league will allow the team back inside the building today.
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HOUSTON (AP) — As it turns out, the curious decision to trade star receiver DeAndre Hopkins in the offseason was the beginning of the end for Houston Texans coach and general manager Bill O'Brien.
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Alexis Lafreniere was supposed to hear his named called in front of family, friends and an adoring crowd inside Montreal’s Bell Centre.
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TALLADEGA, Ala. – One of NASCAR’s big shots won at Talladega Superspeedway, a hectic and crash-filled race that still, somehow, managed to showcase three drivers in need of a job.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – The Jack Johnson experiment is over in Pittsburgh.
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PARIS (AP) – Petra Kvitova stood wide-eyed and perfectly still, scarcely believing she was through to her first French Open quarterfinal in eight years after winning against Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-4 on Monday.
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Tony Dungy seemed to be in pain during NBC’s pregame show Sunday night when he pleaded: “Play some fundamental defense, please.”
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BALTIMORE – More than two months after Tiz the Law blew away the field in the Belmont, Authentic fended off his charge and won the Kentucky Derby. Four weeks later, filly Swiss Skydiver challenged and beat Authentic in the Preakness.
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The Bills-Titans game has been moved from Sunday to Tuesday night at 7 p.m. EDT as long as Tennessee has no more positive tests for COVID-19 in the interim.
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PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Penguins are putting their faith and their money in goalie Tristan Jarry.
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