Saints To Serve Suspension After Appeal Denied

New Orleans Saints defensive ends Will Smith and Charles Grant and former Saints tailback Deuce McAllister will have to serve their four-game suspensions at the start of the 2009 season after a federal judge threw out their lawsuit against the NFL late Friday in Minnesota. According to The Associated Press, Judge Paul Magnuson dismissed the [...]

SB XLVII To N.O. A Super Decision

So, the big game is back in the Big Easy. Good. With apologies to Arizona and South Florida, the two other areas that were worthy candidates for the NFL championship game in 2013, awarding Super Bowl XLVII to New Orleans was the absolute right call by the NFL's owners at the conclusion of their two-day [...]

SB XLVII To N.O. A Super Decision

  So, the big game is back in the Big Easy. Good. With apologies to Arizona and South Florida, the two other areas that were worthy candidates for the NFL championship game in 2013, awarding Super Bowl XLVII to New Orleans was the absolute right call by the NFL's owners at the conclusion of their [...]

Saints Roll Dice With DE Anthony Hargrove

The Saints signed free-agent defensive end Anthony Hargrove on Monday and released defensive end Josh Savage. "He's an interesting player," Coach Sean Payton said Monday while playing in the annual Saints Hall of Fame Celebrity Golf Classic at Chateau Golf & Country Club. Hargrove, 25, who was reinstated by the NFL this year after three [...]

Rookie LB Arnoux Season Ended By Injury

Fourth-round draft pick Stanley Arnoux ruptured his left Achilles tendon during the first practice of the Saints' rookie minicamp Friday morning. He is expected to miss the 2009 season, according to a league source, but the Saints said they won't announce a recovery timetable until a later date. Arnoux will have surgery at some point [...]