Steelers halt Pats&#39; streak
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Dampening the joy in Mudville, the turnover-prone, injury-bitten Patriots lost for the first time in 22 games, 34-20, at Heinz Field yesterday, leaving the 7-0 Eagles as the NFL&#39;s only unbeaten team.
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Defending Super Bowl champions   Pittsburgh Steelers needed two fourth-quarter touchdowns to see   off the Miami Dolphins 28-17 in the NFL season opener on   Thursday.
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The Ravens pounce on a Steelers team playing without much incentive Sunday and end a franchise-worst nine-game losing streak with a 27-21 victory.
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The last time the Steelers met the Patriots, coach Bill Cowher's team walked away with a 34-20 victory on Halloween. The trick that day may have been the absence of Patriots running back Corey Dillon , who had a thigh injury.
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Jacksonville's dominant defense spoiled  Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's return to action,  blanking the defending Super Bowl champion Steelers 9-0 on  Monday.
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Jacksonville's dominant defense spoiled   Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's return to action,   blanking the defending Super Bowl champion Steelers 9-0 on   Monday.
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Roethlisberger was 14-of-19 with an interception, winning his 13th straight start since taking over for an injured Tommy Maddox during the Steelers&#39; Week 2 loss to the Ravens.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are anticipating a fresh start. The Steelers used a combination of good fortune and resourcefulness to edge the New York Jets, 20-17, in overtime Saturday and will meet the Patriots at Heinz Field Sunday.
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The New England Patriots finally quit stopping themselves.
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Pittsburgh's bye week came at the right time for the defending NFL champions, losers of two of their first three games. The slow start came with Ben Roethlisberger considered "rusty," not a designation for the official injury list but one used to describe the early-season play of the QB.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers wrapped up home field for the AFC playoffs Sunday by downing the Baltimore Ravens 20-to-7. Jerome Bettis went over the 100-yard mark for the sixth time this season, rushing for 117 while Duce Staley sat out with a hamstring injury.
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The Patriots are on a losing streak. Almost two weeks ago they blew the biggest lead in conference championship game history in losing to the Indianapolis Colts, and yesterday they lost their battle to prove tampering charges against the New York Jets in the Deion Branch trade case.
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FIRST Arsenalâs unbeaten record came to an end and now that of the New England Patriots is no more. The Super Bowl champions suffered their first defeat for 399 days on Sunday, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Rookie Ben Roethlisberger threw for 196 yards and two touchdown passes as the Pittsburgh Steelers ended the New England Patriots 21-game winning streak with a 34-20 victory Sunday.
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Things aren&#39;t supposed to be this easy in the NFL. Not for the Pittsburgh Steelers, not for anyone. Every game is supposed to be a brutal battle to the end
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers made certain there's nobody unbeaten now in the NFL, except for Ben Roethlisberger.
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Chad Johnson got to dance, and Ben Roethlisberger took a beating. No matter &#151; the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cincinnati Bengals anyway. Jerome Bettis ran for 129 yards, and Pittsburgh's blitzing defense created havoc in the second half, setting up a 19-14 victory Sunday over Cincinnati.