PITTSBURGH, July 18 (UPI) -- The 2006 Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers have seen the deaths of seven former players in the past 16 months, boosting their six-year death total to 18. Since 2000, 77 former NFL players from the 1970s and 1980s have died, and more than 20 percent

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NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Mike Mussina surrendered four runs and 11 hits over seven innings Sunday and that was good enough for the New York Yankees to avoid a three-game sweep with an 8

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