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Roethlisberger calls first talk with Haley “a good start”

Last week, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and new offensive coordinator Todd Haley finally spoke for the first time.  On Thursday, Roethlisberger spoke about it. It started when Haley called Roethlisberger, Roethlisberger didn’t notice the number, and so Roethlisberger didn’t answer the phone.  After he listened to the message, he called Haley back. “It was a……

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Steelers boot Kemoeatu too

*** Discuss this article and more at our Pittsburgh Steelers forum *** The purge in Pittsburgh continues. Guard Chris Kemoeatu will join wide receiver Hines Ward and defensive end Aaron Smith as veterans that the Steelers recently released, according to Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Kemoeatu used to be a mauler in the run…

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Collier: Ward’s game was pure joy

This is the era when just about everything accomplished on a football field is framed as an act of defiance: a football is spiked viciously; a breastbone is beaten repeatedly in thumping self-aggrandizement; a standard touchdown comes replete with posturing and screaming. So let’s remember this today: That is not how Hines Ward played football….

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