PITTSBURGH As Willis McGahee lay motionless, as Ray Lewis and other players knelt to pray, as the cart with the stretcher motored out and a concerned hush fell over Heinz Field, nothing mattered anymore....

newVideoPlayer("/background_deadspin.flv", 506, 343,""); Two top seeds slept for an extra week in their comfy, comfy beds and then promptly got bounced from their Super Bowl dream machine yesterday. How do you feel today Steelers and Giants fans? In fact, home teams are 2-4 in this year's playoffs. ...

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco had been chased out of the pocket and was trying to simply throw the ball away to avoid taking a sack or throwing into heavy coverage by the Jacksonville Jaguars, so he just flicked the ball out of bounds, where his own teammates were gathered. Almost casually...

The Baltimore Ravens' Joe Flacco-led run through the AFC playoffs is just one more example of a famous unibrow influencing world events. [East Coast Bias] • When To Say When . Ben Roethlisberger is not brave. Ben Roethlisberger is a moron. Any doctor who clears him to play is a moron. Any coach wh...

The 2008 Pittsburgh Steelers are a defensive team, it’s just time to face facts. The Steelers spent the offseason loading up with offensive weapons to give to Ben Roethlisberger and Bruce Arians. The thinking was that the Steelers would quickly become a vertical team. Roethlisberger would have...

I can’t help but think about Bart Scott on the eve of the Steelers’ matchup with the blustery Baltimore Ravens. If you don’t remember, when the Steelers played the Baltimore Ravens at Heinz Field last year, Hines Ward cleaned Bart Scott’s clock with a clean block. You know, H...