Gov. Bobby Jindal was on a roll Tuesday morning, rallying the crowd of more than 1,000 South Plaquemines Parish residents and New Orleans Saints fans, tying together how the Super Bowl champion Saints can serve as an inspiration for the recovery from the devastating BP oil spill. (more)
The Vikings will get a second shot at toppling the Saints, only this time the NFC title won't be at stake. (more)
Less than a month ago Darren Sharper was euphoric as he rode through the streets of New Orleans during the epic Dat Tuesday victory celebration. (more)
Super Bowl XLIV has come and gone, and once again the EA Sports prediction has come true. This brings the grand total of accurate predictions up to six, with 2008 remaining as the only inaccurate game called by the company’s Madden franchise simulation. As usual, however, the predicted score was much less accurate, and this year some unexpected plays by the New Orleans Saints took a major part in throwing off the simulation’s idea of how the game would go down. (more)
NEW ORLEANS — People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday’s Times-Picayune, which hollered “AMEN!” from its front page. The Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it. (more)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sean Payton wore Mardi Gras beads Monday morning and the look of a man who had channeled the Bourbon Street party after the New Orleans Saints completed their stunning resurrection for themselves and their city at the Super Bowl. (more)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — To put it in football terms, the New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams would like his guys to hit Peyton Manning in the mouth. (more)
The National Football League has backed away from moves to enforce trademark rights to a popular chant by New Orleans Saints supporters, days before the team competes in the Super Bowl. (more)
Super Bowl XLIV in Miami will be the New Orleans Saints’ first time at the big game — the Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium only three years ago. That’s put a significant amount of pressure on the team, which many expect will face an uphill battle against league MVP Peyton Manning and the 14-2 Colts. (more)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Colts have been schooled on how to be authentic and straightforward. And they are — unless there is something they want hidden. (more)
Dwight Freeney’s injured ankle is “really bad” and could keep him out of the Super Bowl, a person close to the All-Pro defensive end told The Associated Press in an e-mail Sunday night. (more)
Been a hectic and unrewarding couple of days, marked by an unending line of annoying tasks and some very uninspired decision-making, after which there is little or no sense of satisfaction besides the angry left-to-right sweep of a pen through an item on my to-do list. You know, the kind of work that might get done but doesn’t actually accomplish anything; the kind of work that makes me wish I had a job where someone just told me what to do. And I’d do it. And then I’d go home and play with the dog I don’t have in the house I don’t live in by the river I am not fishing. (more)
Kim Kardashian won’t be walking down the aisle anytime soon. (more)






















