Dan Rooney

The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: adds statements from Steelers Hall of Famer Butler dies Hall of Famer Jack Butler died Saturday morning after a battle with a staph infection. He was 85. Butler, a Pittsburgh Steelers great in the 1950s, was inducted...

Mount Aloysius College announced that Patricia Rooney is to serve as the commencement speaker for the class of 2013. Rooney is the wife of Pittsburgh Steeler owner Dan Rooney, former ambassador to Ireland. The 160th Commencement is to take place at 10...

This NFL offseason represents the 10-year anniversary of the inception of the "Rooney Rule." The rule, named after Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney, requires teams to interview minority candidates for all head coaching and senior football...

There’s buzz that Anna Wintour, the powerful editor of Vogue magazine, is being considered by President Obama for the prestigious post of U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom-- correctly known as ambassador to the Court of St. James's. When White...

The temptation is to define the man, or at least his body of work, by 140 character messages. Yes, the Colts' owner is an active and wildly popular tweeter with more than 180,000 followers. But the owner of the Colts is Jim Irsay, not @JimIrsay. That...

Art Modell forever will be known as the man who took the Browns out of Cleveland, but his legacy as one of the NFL's most influential personalities extends far beyond state lines. As an old-guard owner, he helped pour the foundation for today's game and...

March 21, 1961: Modell bought the Browns for just under $4 million. Aug. 18, 1962: Modell proposed and staged pro football's first preseason doubleheader at Cleveland Stadium. The Browns played the Steelers in one game and the Lions faced the Cowboys...

Northern State football standout Lincoln Smith has a lot to be proud of, and NSU has a lot to be proud of in Smith. He has been one of the most sturdy crewmates on a ship that has sailed in some stormy seas during his time in Aberdeen. But Smith, his...

TV SPORTS SATURDAY Soccer-Premier League, Arsenal vs. Liverpool, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); WPS, Playoffs, 3 p.m. (FXSP) Little League Baseball-World Series, Junior League Championship Game, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); World Series, elimination game, 11 a.m., 5 and...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sure, there weren’t any high-intensity cardiovascular workouts, no comprehensive study of playbook intricacies, no formal weightlifting. And certainly nothing close to a full-pads practice. But that didn’t matter to...

Mike Tomlin acknowledges his Peninsula roots as he becomes head coach of the five-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers.     The National Football League's second-youngest head coach praised his big brother, his mentor and his God. He...

A chance. That's all Mike Tomlin ever wanted. It didn't matter whether he was a 103-pound budding junior varsity defensive back, a 5-year-old playing cards with his mom and older brother, a seventh-grader taking a crack at high school trigonometry or a...