Wallace has managed to be happy, even though many receivers would pout over what has happened to him in his first two postseason games. He earned the right this season to join those wide receiver divas who do little but complain over the way they are used, the way they are not used, the treatment they get from quarterbacks and cornerbacks and their salary. Many of them are forever demonstratively signaling first down when they catch a 6-yard pass or pulling out imaginary flags and looking at an official when they drop another pass in tight coverage.

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Mike Wallace, the Steelers speedy wide receiver, makes Pittsburgh forget about Santonio Holmes

PITTSBURGH – One afternoon when Mike Wallace, the Steelers receiver, was in elementary school, he received a report card with two failing grades for the marking period. His mother, Sonjia, was already at work, managing the night shift at the Metropolitan Developmental Center, a mental health facility in New Orleans, so his sister Quanna, a stickler 10 years his elder, answered the phone when he called with his grades.

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