After all these years of setting draft odds, you would think I would know better than to make a mistake.But I did. And got swamped. Money began pouring in on one player immediately.I was careless with the odds, but not with the player I expected.If you recall, I thought Charles Harris at 7-1 ...
Two days before the draft, the NFL finally got around to announcing the reinstatement of Martavis Bryant.The Steelers wide receiver had been suspended the past year for failing the league鈥檚 substance abuse policy. But after spending much of the year training and coaching kids in Nevada, ...
The Jabrill Peppers news yesterday knocked me for a bit of a loop.Peppers was someone whom I believed could give the Pittsburgh Steelers what the great Troy Polamalu gave them.But then, shouldn鈥檛 Peppers act like Polamalu?Hey, for all I know, Peppers鈥� failed NFL Combine drug test 鈥� his ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� Art Rooney II has been running the Steelers for a while now, so there鈥檚 no official change in leadership with the team.The difference is he can no longer walk down the hall and tap into the knowledge his father accumulated over a lifetime in the game.Dan Rooney鈥檚 passing ...
You really can't say enough good things about the late Dan Rooney.He had it all and did it all. How many NFL owners ever served as a United States ambassador? Rooney was an ambassador to Ireland, and it wasn't some cushy job. Rooney worked hard to better both countries and loved every minute of ...
James Harrison covered up a big problem last season, and that problem could actually be a structural one for a team that believes it can continue using OLB/DE hybrids as edge rushers in their nickel defense.The nickel defense has become the base defense for the Steelers, who seemingly refuse to ...
