The San Francisco 49ers were lights-out in their return to prime time, riding their top-ranked run defense again and prevailing through a pair of power outages to beat ailing quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-3 on Monday night. Vernon Davis and Frank Gore scored second-half touchdowns last night at Candlestick Park for the [...]
The first preseason games are getting ready to kick off, and the excitement is palpable as football fans are primed and ready to see what their favorite teams look like on the field of play. We here at the ESPN.com fantasy department are equally giddy with anticipation and in order to try and get some [...]
Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes, leading the Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Super Bowl Sunday. Jason Horowitz, Pete Prisco and Clark Judge recap the big game. Green Bay’s “D” made the slim difference in producing three turnovers that led to 21 points in a taut 31-25 victory Sunday against [...]
Christina Aguilera’s fumbling of the national anthem before the 2011 Super Bowl may have been worse than Nick Collins’ pick-six off the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger — unless, of course, you’re a Green Bay Packers fan. Check out Xtina’s “interpretation” of “The Star-Spangled Banner” above, and vote in the Lea Michele vs. Christina Aguilera singing [...]
We asked around ESPN’s Campus (yet again): Who will win Super Bowl XLV – the Green Bay Packers or the Pittsburgh Steelers? If extraordinary artists are born, not created, then so are scrambling quarterbacks. The canvas might be a tad cruder and the strokes a bit more uneven, but there is an art to avoiding [...]
Players from the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers talked with the media Tuesday in Dallas — albeit some of them in strange costumes. On pure talent alone, Ben Roethlisberger isn’t in the same league as Aaron Rodgers. Or, for that matter, many of the NFL’s elite quarterbacks. And that means absolutely nothing when it [...]
