Madden Ranks Pittsburgh #1

Madden Football ranks the Pittsburgh Steelers number one.

Offense: (5)-- Most of this team's strength is on the defensive side of the ball, but Madden is pretty generous to the offensive line this year. In addition, Hines and Big Ben get fairly favorable scores (94 and 92, respectively) and Heath Miller's 87 rating makes up for the lack of a top RB.

Defense: (5)-- Polamalu leads the way as he jumped up to a 98 overall, with 93 speed and 95 acceleration. Porter is right behind him as a 97 overall with 85 speed. The corners are pretty solid, as are the rest of the linebackers. You'd like a little more speed on the D-line, but if you blitz with Porter he fills that need.

Outlook: The Steelers lack the classic elements of a strong Madden team, but are ranked number one because of the age old tradition in Madden to make the previous year’s Super Bowl winner a little better than they should be.

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Holmes Charges Dropped

A charge of disorderly conduct against Pittsburgh Steelers rookie receiver Santonio Holmes was dropped.

Holmes, the team's first-round pick, was among hundreds of people arrested as part of a police crackdown on revelers who annually converge on Miami Beach during the Memorial Day weekend.

Prosecutors dismissed the charge against the Steelers' first-round draft pick, but he was ordered to donate $250 to the police officers assistance trust fund. The 22-year-old Holmes had pleaded not guilty to charges that he blocked traffic and refused to obey a police order to move.

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Philip Inks Deal

Marvin Philip inks multiyear contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 6-foot-1, 307-pound Philip was selected in the sixth round, 201st overall, out of California in the draft. Terms of the deal were not announced.

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Ben Lucky to be Alive

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said that he was told he was "seconds, maybe a minute away from dying" immediately after his motorcycle accident last month.

Roethlisberger, in his first interview since the June 12 accident, told ESPN's SportsCenter that he doesn't remember much about the accident when he rammed his motorcycle into a car that was making a left turn in front of him on a Pittsburgh street.

He did, however, remember what he was told by people at the scene. "They told me that I was literally seconds, maybe a minute away from dying because I slit a vein or artery in my mouth or my throat and it was draining blood right into my stomach and luckily the paramedic noticed it and stopped it or else I would have had too much blood in my stomach," he said in Los Angeles where he was for the taping of the ESPY Awards.

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