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How Many Super Bowls Have Been Held in New Orleans? See a Full History of Big Easy Championships

Scott Lewis — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:10:14 +0000

Super Bowl XLVII has already taken over New Orleans, even though the game itself won't kickoff until Sunday, Feb. 2. But New Orleans is no stranger to Super Bowls, having hosted nine previous ones.

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Goodell Not Welcome In New Orleans Restaurants

Steve Wiley — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:53:31 +0000

New Orleans area bar owners and restaurateurs are making it known that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is not welcome in their establishments.

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Jay's Cajuns Moment #20 – Senior Night with Tim Floyd

Jay Walker — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:00:42 +0000

USL 73, New Orleans 69

CAJUNDOME February 23, 1994

The Cajundome opened in November of 1985. In that season, the final for Bobby Paschal, the Cajuns defeated the University of New Orleans.

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Sporting News Releases List Of Best Sports Cities

Scott Prather — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:06:07 +0000

Sporting news released their yearly list of the best sports cities in the U.S. and Canada. Dallas ranked 1rst out of 271 cities. Where did New Orleans rank? Or better yet, where did this great city of Lafayette rank?

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Saints Falcons Rivalry Bitter As Ever

Scott Prather — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 21:50:36 +0000

The bitter rivals will meet Monday night in the Georgia Dome. Games of such significance haven't happened often in this rivalry because both teams have seldom been good during the same season.

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Politicians Fight For Hornets

Scott Prather — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:12:34 +0000

Seattle wants the Hornets. Louisiana does not want to give them up without a fight.

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Saints Ready For Second Half Of 2010

Steve Peloquin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:56:49 +0000

The New Orleans Saints are rested, and ready for the second half of the season. Brian Allee-Walsh, of neworleans.com, has the story, below.

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Saints Hoping Bye Week Pays Dividends

Steve Peloquin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:49:38 +0000

The New Orleans Saints are hoping that the bye week brings them health and consistency. Sportsillustrated.cnn.com has the story, below.

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Saints Need To Focus On Home Field For Playoffs

Steve Peloquin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:51:46 +0000

Home-field advantage in the playoffs is going to be extremely importan, if the New Orleans Saints plan to make another run at a Supre Bowl appearance. Jeff Duncan, of the Times-Picayune, has the story, below.

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Saints Think Best Is Yet To Come

Steve Peloquin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:32:21 +0000

The New Orleans Saints are off to a 6-3 start in 2010, but still think they can be better. Les East, of neworleans.com, has the story, below.

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Hornets Bench Solid, Remain Undefeated

Steve Peloquin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:58:10 +0000

From the Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS -- The Hornets' reserve guards gave Chris Paul an easy night and powered surging New Orleans to its most lopsided victory of the young season.

Willie Green scored 19 points and Jerryd Bayless added 15, helping the Hornets remain unbeaten with a 101-82 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night

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Payton Has Been Doing Damage Control With Saints

Steve Peloquin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:50:35 +0000

Courtesy---Mike Triplett/Times-Picayune

New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton has been doing a lot of damage control this season, it seems.

First, he had to insist that New Orleans' early-season struggles weren't cause for crisis. Now he needs to caution that a two-game

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Saints QB's & OL Mid-Season Grades

Steve Peloquin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:48:51 +0000

Courtesy---Danny Cox/New Orleans Sports Examiner

The New Orleans Saints have made it to their bye week after a 34-3 victory over the Carolina Panthers this past Sunday. Going into the bye, the Saints sit in second place in the NFC South with an overall record of 6-3 and looking good...finally.

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Sharper Is A Game Changer For Saints

Steve Peloquin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:46:39 +0000

Courtesy---John DeShazier/Times-Picayune

Some things can't be quantified with numbers.

We can log tackles, assists, fumbles caused and recovered, interceptions and return yards -- especially, for Darren Sharper, interceptions and return yards

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Hornets Surprise Perfect Start

Scott Prather — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:43:08 +0000

Larry Holder of CBSsports.com and WIST 690 AM in New Orleans made some good points about the Hornets having a perfect record, yet still growing as a team. He writes:
"David West, the team's longest-tenured player, spoke with about as much honesty as maybe he ever has during Hornets media day a little more than a month ago. West,

Saints Benefit With Bye Week

Steve Peloquin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:39:11 +0000

Courtesy---Mike Triplett/Times-Picayune

The bye week is coming at a good time for the New Orleans Saints, who suffered a handful of new injuries Sunday at Carolina to go with the lingering ones that already existed.

Tight end Jeremy Shockey (bruised ri

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Chris Paul Has To Be Pleased With New Staff

Steve Peloquin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:31:57 +0000

National sports headlines back in July covered Chris Paul's frustration with the Hornets lack of movement in free agency, and lack of communication with the face of their franchise. Chris Broussard of ESPN quoted CP3 as claiming that he loved New Orleans, but did not want to play for a team that was not commited to winning

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Saints Crunk Video

Brandon Comeaux — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:42:57 +0000

Saints Pre-Game Chant

Brandon Comeaux — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:46:34 +0000