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				<title><![CDATA[Leftwich unlikely hero as Steelers squash Redskins]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[LANDOVER, Maryland (Ticker) -- Byron Leftwich got an unexpected 
chance to shine in his hometown - and he beat the team he grew 
up rooting for.

Leftwich threw for 129 yards and a touchdown in the second half 
in place of the injured Ben Roethlisberger, and the Pittsburgh 
Steelers' defense stymied the Washington Redskins en route to a 
23-6 victory on Monday.

A Washington, D.C. native, Leftwich completed 7-of-10 passes and
led a pair of touchdown drives after Roethlisberger left with a 
right shoulder injury just prior to halftime.

Leftwich had mixed emotions about playing his hometown team.

"I grew up a Redskins fan," Leftwich said. "I don't really like 
playing the Redskins."

His team sure liked the results, though.

"Byron Leftwich came home to D.C. tonight and put together a 
winning performance for us and he is a popular guy right now in 
that locker room," said Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin.

"I have no update on Ben (Roethlisberger) at this point, I'm 
sure I will have more information at the press conference 
tomorrow.  Potentially he was capable of going back in the game,
but we went down the field with Leftwich there to start the 
second half.  We will see how it is in the morning."

Willie Parker ran for 70 yards and a TD and Santonio Holmes 
hauled in a score for Pittsburgh (6-2), which held Washington 
(6-3) to just 3-of-15 on third down conversions.

None of the Steelers were surprised by Leftwich.

"Byron is an experienced player," said Parker, who had missed 
the previous four games with a knee injury. "He is not new to 
this.  Nobody was surprised by how well Byron came out and 
played tonight.  Ben went down and Byron seamlessly came in and 
did what he had to do."

"Byron has been a starter in this league before," said 
linebacker James Harrison, who had 11 tackles and 1.5 sacks.  
"He practices every week like he is going to help this team win 
in the next game.  So he did the job we expected him to do."

Pittsburgh's second-ranked defense played a big role in the win 
as well, holding the Redskins to 221 total yards.

The Steelers recorded seven sacks and held Clinton Portis, the 
league's leading rusher, to just 51 yards on 13 carries. It was 
no small feat, considering that Portis had run for over 120 
yards in five straight games.

"It started with stopping Clinton for us," Tomlin said. "That 
was our focus."

"That don't matter, man," Portis said of the Redskins' upcoming 
bye week. "Not coming out and playing the way we should have 
played - knowing we had a bye week - we didn't go out and 
display the effort we should have."

Pittsburgh also forced Jason Campbell's first interception in 
250 attempts and ended the Redskins' NFL record of most games 
without a pick (12) and most pass attempts (379) without an 
interception.  Campbell was 24-of-43 for 206 yards and two 
interceptions.

"Every week these guys get faced with a test," Tomlin said. "The
No. 1 rushing offense (the New York Giants) the week before, and
came back against the No. 2 offense (with) Clinton Portis 
tonight."

"They were relentless the whole night. I asked myself, 'Are we 
going to get a break at all?'" Campbell said. "They wouldn't 
bend at all."

While the defense was suffocating, the star was Leftwich, who 
sparked the Steelers' stagnant offense.  He was forced into 
action after Roethlisberger headed to the locker room following 
a 1-yard score that put the Steelers up, 10-6, with 35 seconds 
left in the half.

Roethlisberger struggled mightily prior to leaving, going 
5-for-17 for 50 yards and an interception. The injury turned out
to be a blessing in disguise, as Leftwich looked as if he had 
been playing all season.

On his first pass attempt, Leftwich hit Nate Washington for 50 
yards to the Redskins' 11-yard line.

That set up a 1-yard score by Parker that put the Steelers up, 
16-6, with 10:26 left in the third.

"No stage or situation is too big for Byron Leftwich," Tomlin 
said. "He's got that eerie calm."

Trailing by 10 in the third quarter, Washington forced 
Pittsburgh to punt twice and responded with its best drive to 
that point.

Campbell led the Redskins to the Steelers' 30-yard line, but his
pass to Portis was tipped an intercepted by Deshea Townsend with
3:41 left in the quarter.

"Any time a ball gets tipped in the air in the NFL, more times 
than not, it's going to get intercepted," Campbell said.

"We talked about it (Campbell's streak) before the game," 
Townsend said. "At that point in the game, they were still in 
it, so it was big for us."

Leftwich sealed the win by leading a 12-play, 77-yard drive that
was capped by a 5-yard TD strike Holmes that made it 23-6 with 
12:04 remaining.  It was the first game back for Holmes, who was
suspended one-game by the team after being arrested for 
possession of marijuana last week.

Shaun Suisham kicked a pair of field goals for Washington, which
became the first NFC East team to lose to Pittsburgh this 
season.

The Redskins' first three drives began in Pittsburgh's 
territory, but they could only muster six points.  The Steelers 
opened the game with a surprise onside kick, but it did not come
back to haunt them.

"We had such great field position early in the ballgame," 
Washington head coach Jim Zorn said. "We kept having to start 
over, and those were very frustrating points in the game."

A blocked punt by Andre Frazier set up Roethlisberger's score 
just before halftime.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:53:30 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Steelers faces another NFC East powerhouse]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH (5-2) AT WASHINGTON (6-2), 8:35 pm EST

LANDOVER, Maryland (Ticker) -- The Pittsburgh Steelers are lucky
they don't play in the NFC East.

The Steelers will get another taste of the toughest division in 
the NFL on Monday night when they visit the Washington Redskins.

Ben Roethlisberger was intercepted four times and sacked on five
occasions as Pittsburgh lost to the NFC East-leading New York 
Giants, 21-14, last Sunday.  Roethlisberger passed for 189 yards
and one touchdown in the loss.

The Steelers' only other loss this season also came against an 
NFC East opponent when they suffered a 15-6 setback to the 
cross-state rival Philadelphia Eagles on September 21.

The Redskins, who have won six of their last seven contests, 
provide another tough test for Pittsburgh.  Washington will 
counter the Steelers' top-ranked defense with Clinton Portis, 
the NFL's leading rusher.

Clinton Portis has a commanding lead of the league's rushing 
lead, gaining 944 yards and seven touchdowns on 187 carries this
season.  He holds a 260-yard edge over Minnesota's Adrian 
Peterson.

Portis rushed for 126 yards and Santana Moss score a pair of 
touchdowns - one receiving, one punt return - as Washington 
pulled out a 25-17 triumph over the Detroit Lions last Sunday.

Pittsburgh will not make it easy on Portis, who has five 
consecutive 100-yard rushing performances.

The Steelers have allowed just 71.6 yards per game and have not 
surrendered more than 63 yards to an opposing running back this 
season.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:02:23 GMT</pubDate>
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