After the 2014 season, the Steelers gave iconic safety Troy Polamalu a choice: Retire or be released.

“Ben assured me he is committed to coming back to help us win, and I told Ben that we would like to have him back to help us win a championship.” — Art Rooney II. Awesome.

Steelers president Art Rooney II told quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Tuesday the team wants him to return for the 2021 season, agent Ryan Tollner and other sources told the Post-Gazette.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin and others members of the organization tested positive for COVID-19 last week, sources told the Post-Gazette.

The drive from Bloomington, Minn., to Fargo, N.D., on the morning of Jan. 30, 2018, five days before the Eagles’ victory in Super Bowl LII, was 3 hours and 45 minutes of earth tones and silence, of the occasional farmhouse amid vast farmland, of a sky without even a bird to puncture the endless gray.

Vincent Jackson, the former Bucs and Chargers receiver, was found dead Monday in a Brandon hotel where he had been living since January. He was 38.

In the NBA, LeBron James and the players have the power. It wasn’t always this way, but James unearthed a previously untapped amount of player influence in basketball. He is a power broker, dictating where he plays and with whom. Other stars have followed suit. Most recently, James Harden facilitated a trade from Houston to the Brooklyn Nets to join Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. “The ...

Russell Wilson voices his complaints with a smile and an air of civility, peppered with positive asides.