Ben Roethlisberger and Mike Tomlin spent part of their day issuing non-denial denials to Mike Florio's report that Big Ben underwent an x-ray on his sore ribs Wednesday.  This morning, ESPN's bottom line going across their Austrailian Open coverage and Mike and Mike confirmed the report. 

In typical ESPN style, they didn't credit Mike Florio or mention who from ESPN has confirmed the report. "Ben Roethlisberger underwent a second x-ray Wednesday on the rib injury he suffered in the AFC championship game," simply ran across the bottom line. 

Again, Roethlisberger is clearly well enough to play and probably play well.  But Pittsburgh's odd refusal to recognize this story makes it appear they don't want it to become a bigger story.