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The late-April draft came and went. So, too, did a Kansas City Chiefs rookie minicamp tryout that Tuzar Skipper attended. And a CFL tryout for the Hamilton TigerCats. “They said I did pretty good,” Skipper said, referring to TigerCats management. “They were gonna call me back if I didn’t hear...

In “First Call” Thursday, Gerrit Cole dials up the heat. JuJu Smith-Schuster continues to show how marketable he really is. Carli Lloyd keeps the hype going about her place-kicking career. And Alison Riske is up for Round 2 at the U.S. Open. Gas from Gerrit Former Pirate Gerrit Cole dialed...

The Pittsburgh Steelers play their final preseason game Thursday night in Charlotte. Kameron Kelly is a player who probably circled this game on the calendar and said it might be his last chance to make the team. Now, he’s been so good in training camp and in the preseason games,...

On our WDVE Steelers pregame show, my co-host Dale Lolley and I always make our “Three Guarantees.” Three things we guarantee will happen in the game. OK, maybe guarantee is a strong word. But it rhymes. It’s catchy. And it gives us a chance to say, “I told you so”...

If you are looking for something of substance to track Thursday night in the Pittsburgh Steelers preseason finale, I’ve got two pieces of advice. 1) Find something else to do with your time. 2) If you can’t, watch the running backs. There may be some practical application to doing so....

If the Pittsburgh Steelers needed any reminder that a spot on an NFL roster isn’t guaranteed, they came in the form of players who were practicing one day and gone the next. They saw defensive end Lavon Hooks leaving on a golf cart, then wearing a protective boot and staring...

Thursday’s game might be the most important in regards to a potential NFL career in the life of Diontae Spencer. But as a two-time CFL All-Star who broke records with the Ottawa Redblacks and in college at McNeese State, it will take more than that to faze the 27-year-old Spencer....

Josh Dobbs and Mason Rudolph aren’t the only Pittsburgh Steelers well aware that the preseason finale at the Carolina Panthers on Thursday night is their final audition. Their teammates have popcorn ready for the Battle of the Backups, the penultimate episode in the Game of Clipboards. “I’m watching them in...

The team-building process that began for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the spring comes to a head Thursday night in the annual preseason finale against the Carolina Panthers. Offseason workouts gave way to OTAs which gave way to minicamp which gave way to training camp which gave way to the preseason....

As the No. 192 overall draft pick, rookie defensive end Isaiah Buggs wasn’t necessarily expected to make the Pittsburgh Steelers’ active roster. After all, none of the past three players taken at that draft spot made the 53-man roster when the regular season began. Five of the past six Steelers...

Thursday will mark the end of the third NFL preseason for Trey Edmunds. It also will signify the conclusion of another training camp in which his status on cutdown day is in question. “It’s not my first rodeo,” the Pittsburgh Steelers running back said Tuesday, “so I’m kind of used...

In “First Call” Wednesday, Cam Heyward’s battle cry. Steven Brault shows his skills. And look out for “little Fournette.” Breathing fire Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cameron Heyward may have come up with this year’s team slogan for 2019. During his weekly interview on 102.5 WDVE, Heyward spoke about going to...

How do you shame a guy who knows no shame? Twitter. That’s how. Former Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro Antonio Brown sent out the tweet below. Then he deleted it. Antonio Brown deleted this tweet. pic.twitter.com/fyo1RTcXEr— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) August 27, 2019 That was Brown’s response to Ben Roethlisberger’s halftime interview Sunday...

The Pittsburgh Steelers leave for Charlotte, N.C. Wednesday afternoon, where they will face the Carolina Panthers Thursday night in the preseason finale. Bud Dupree won’t suit up, but he should play in the season opener against the New England Patriots. And that’s a relief. After the outside linebacker hurt his...

When Josh Dobbs cut, turned up the field and turned on the proverbial afterburners for a 36-yard gain during the second quarter of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ preseason-opening win three weeks ago, eyebrows were raised. After all, Dobbs weaved in and out of Tampa Bay tacklers, made some Buccaneers defensive backs...

Forty-eight hours before their preseason finale, the Pittsburgh Steelers swapped cornerbacks Tuesday. They claimed rookie Jhavonte Dean off waivers from the Cleveland Browns and waived/injured third-year player Brian Allen, a former fifth-round pick. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Dean was waived four days after competing in his third preseason game for the...

It was in the fourth preseason game last year when Josh Dobbs showed enough to the coaching staff that he not only earned a roster spot with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he won the backup quarterback job from veteran Landry Jones. When he gathered his players Tuesday morning for film study,...

The season opener is 12 days away for the Pittsburgh Steelers, which means the clock is winding down for them to sign veteran cornerback Joe Haden to a new contract. Per team policy, the Steelers cease negotiations once the regular season starts. Haden is entering the final year of a...

Tuesday’s “First Call” features Shannon Sharpe claiming he would’ve slapped Ben Roethlisberger. A big loss for the Patriots. Good news for the Browns. And popcorn with a fork. Yeah. It’s true. Popcorn with a fork. Guess where that happened. Wanna clarify that? It looks like Antonio Brown is about to...

Everything about Stephon Tuitt is big: his size, his contract, his expectations as a hulking end on the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. And during a brief appearance Sunday night in the team’s exhibition game at Tennessee, so was his production. Tuitt played just 12 snaps in the Steelers’ 18-6 victory against...

Among the 91 players in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room this week, the most restless could be the likes of Sutton Smith and Tuzar Skipper, Fred Johnson and Zach Banner, Marcus Allen and Jordan Dangerfield. Or is it Kevin Rader and Zach Gentry, and Eli Rogers and Diontae Spencer? Rookies...

In this week’s “Madden Monday,” Mark Madden of 105.9 the X joins me to wrap up the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 18-6 preseason win over the Tennessee Titans. Well, we try to wrap up what we could figure out, anyway. Boy, that camera angle was really bad. We dissect that topic first....

Monday’s “First Call” is filled with hatred of the NBC camera angle during the Steelers game Sunday night. Antonio Brown’s Helmetgate may be coming to an end. And a sad sidebar to Andrew Luck’s retirement. Scrap that idea Steelers fans had one universal critique of the team’s 18-6 win in...