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Chris Conner scored on Pittsburgh's first successful penalty shot in nearly four years, Jordan Staal added his third goal in three games and the Sidney Crosby-less Penguins beat the injury-thinned Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Tuesday night.
Pittsburgh scored the first 19 points only to lose the lead, then came back behind Nasir Robinson's 21 points to hand No. 3 Syracuse its first loss Monday night, with a 74-66 victory in a game of remarkable runs.
A most fitting comeback for Ben Roethlisberger.
Bill Cowher returned to the Steelers' sideline for the first time since resigning as their coach four years ago.
T.J. McConnell scored 18 points and Duquesne held Saint Louis without a basket for 14 minutes while turning a four-point deficit into a 19-point lead before going on to 67-45 victory on Wednesday night, its fifth in a row.
Mark Recchi scored the third of the Bruins' four goals in the final 3 1/2 minutes to cap their second frantic rally in two visits to Pittsburgh, and Boston beat the Sidney Crosby-less Penguins 4-2 on Monday night.
Todd Graham agreed Monday to leave Tulsa and become Pitt's third football coach in a month, a move designed to quickly bring stability to a program rocked by former coach Mike Haywood's arrest last month.
Coach Jamie Dixon's Pitt teams are commonly called hardworking, aggressive, defense-minded and resourceful. They win by making few mistakes and rebounding with a passion.
When Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger steps into the pocket and looks downfield for Mike Wallace, he's knows one thing for certain.
A night after Tampa Bay went nearly 63 minutes before winning, the Pittsburgh Penguins needed only 7 seconds to all but assure the Lightning of losing.
When Troy Polamalu was chosen by his teammates as the Steelers' most valuable player, one of their defensive starters spoke out against the selection.
There are no TV cameras recording their every move on and off the ice, no cell phones filled with messages requesting tickets from friends and family members.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have won 20 division titles since the NFL merger in 1970, the most of any club. Not surprisingly, their six Super Bowl victories since then also are the most for any franchise.
Pitt no longer has its new coach or its old coach.
As the Winter Classic got wetter and wetter, the NHL nearly experienced its first rain delay. The Washington Capitals weathered the conditions with a performance that proved they can handle a big-game setting, even one in the great outdoors.
Mario Lemieux couldn't find the net. That doesn't mean he's lost his scoring touch.
There was no stick-breaking by Sidney Crosby when his 25-game scoring streak ended one game short of the Winter Classic. To Crosby, the streak was good while it lasted, but he never had any expectations of threatening Wayne Gretzky's record 51-game run.
Back in August, Ben Roethlisberger couldn't stop smiling as the Steelers trudged through the first week of training camp. No teammate was immune from kidding, no autograph request was met with a glare or a condescending shrug of the shoulders.
A game the Pittsburgh Steelers were hoping would mean nothing now means everything, and they know it.
Sidney Crosby scored twice during a four-point night to extend his scoring streak to 25 games, and the Pittsburgh Penguins won their final home game before the Winter Classic by beating the Atlanta Thrashers 6-3 on Tuesday.
The Pittsburgh Steelers probably won't know until Friday whether safety Troy Polamalu can play in Sunday's final regular season game at Cleveland.
Ashton Gibbs scored 21 points as Pittsburgh's balance overcame Kemba Walker's one-man offense for No. 4 Connecticut, and the No. 6 Panthers easily won the Big East's first matchup of Top 10 teams by 78-63 on Monday night.
Hines Ward has been the focal point of the Pittsburgh Steelers' offense for so long, it almost seems as if he goes back to the days of Terry Bradshaw and Franco Harris.
Brad Wanamaker scored 19 points and led a first-half surge in which No. 6 Pittsburgh held American to a lone basket for 10 minutes, and the Panthers won 61-46 on Wednesday night for their 200th victory under coach Jamie Dixon.
The New York Jets weren't supposed to be able to win this game in this city, not with this quarterback.
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