New Orleans Saints

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With full pads and a bit of hitting, the heat became a bit of a problem for the Saints on Friday morning. The heat index reached 95 degrees as the Saints practiced at their Metairie practice fields. Tackle Jammal Brown...

Reports, its seems of Reggie Bush's "setback" were exaggerated. After an Associated Press story Wednesday morning using that word sent Saints Nation into a tizzy with the suggestion that Bush had suffered more damage to his surgically repaired left knee,...

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush has been held out of practice for the third straight day, and is listed as questionable for Sunday's game in Tampa Bay.

Reggie Bush has missed two practices this week as the New Orleans Saints try to rest their running back's left knee before Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Injuries have started to pile up for the New Orleans Saints' defense, and their offense has had trouble taking care of the ball.

Tonights Washington Capitals and Montreal Canadians show down will feature for the Caps a season debut and a NHL debut. When the Caps take the ice tonight, 2008 first round draft pick John Carlson will make his NHL debut.  With injuries to Milan Jurcina and Shaone Morrisonn, Carlson will get into the lineup for the first [...]

Rookies ranked according to Win Contribution I went on 82games.com and calculated the Marginal Win Score, Win Contribution, and Player Win Average for every rookie who is averaging at least 17 minutes a game (the accepted cutoff for determining whether a player is at least second string).  I then ranked them all.  Here is the NBA [...]

Statistics — The Magic shoot 64% of their shots from long range, and 27% near the basket. That’s a pretty interesting stat seeing that they have Dwight Howard hulking down low. Orlando has committed 66 ball-handling turnovers. Without Jameer Nelson for tonight’s game (out 4-6 weeks with a knee injury), look for Rondo to stuff the [...]

Reggie Bush has missed two practices this week as the Saints try to rest their running back’s left knee. It’s the same knee Bush had surgery on last December to repair cartilage. Bush is coming off one of his best games of the season in St. Louis last Sunday, when he gained 98 yards and [...]

With a perfect record at the halfway mark of the 2009 season, the Saints are the easy pick to represent the NFC for Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida. However, as the Saints march onto the second half of the season, the road will not be as easy as they will encounter some roadblocks. Yes, [...]

ESPN Insider Adam Schefter is reporting from his Twitter page that the Saints worked out DE Orpheus Roye, and DT’s Chuck Darby, Rodney Leisle. “Saints tried out three defensive linemen today – nose tackles Chuck Darby and Rodney Leisle and defensive end Orpheus Roye.”