Maybe Steelers coach Mike Tomlin won’t make the same money as Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt.

The Steelers long have followed a winning formula that is unique and proven, but they veered off course last season and must embrace it again in 2010, according to Troy Polamalu.

Did authorities investigating a rape allegation against Ben Roethlisberger ask the right questions? Were they too pushy or not pushy enough? Were witnesses forthcoming or coy? Now you can judge for yourself.

Charlie Batch is worried, and it has nothing to do with where he fits in the pecking order of the convoluted Steelers quarterback rotation, nothing to do with Ben Roethlisberger, nothing to do with the Steelers’ prospects for 2010.

Athletes are forever coming back from one thing or another, whether injury, a poor season, personal loss or even — as Michael Jordan, Mario Lemieux, Brett Favre and Sugar Ray Leonard — from retirement.

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will be among many Steelers who will participate in Hines Ward’s third annual Celebrity Softball Game at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Duquesne Field in Green Tree.

Charlie Batch might not be into New Zealand politics much these days, but he and that down-under country’s minister of defense in World War I have something in common — a belief.

Sports Illustrated has summarized the entire Ben Roethlisberger saga in a cover story out today titled “The Hangover.”

The bad luck continued today for Steelers wide receiver Limas Sweed, who left the final minicamp practice with what appears to be a serious Achilles tendon injury, coach Mike Tomlin revealed.

I wanted so badly to hear Steelers president Art Rooney II put an end to all of the troubling speculation Wednesday. “We are not looking to trade Ben Roethlisberger.