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CBS Reporter Kelly Cobiella filed this report on the CBS Evening News Friday on what the Saints mean to New Orleans.
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Although now based in New York City, singer-songwriter Josh Charles, an artist with a panache for fusing diverse musical styles from piano jazz to soul, has his heart set in New Orleans, a city where he gained firsthand experience from his main mentor there, prolific blues rock artist Dr. John.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans" because it forced the community to take steps to improve low-performing public schools, according to excerpts from a television interview made public Friday.
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The city will host a parade for the NFC champions -- win or lose in Super Bowl XLIV -- on Feb. 9
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Wright Thompson narrates the amazing recovery for New Orleans post-Katrina, through the excitement over the Saints Superbowl run.
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The Jefferson Parish Council has voted to suspend their red light traffic cameras after concerns were raised about the contract for them...
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A federal arbitration panel awarded Louisiana $475 million Wednesday for hurricane-related damage to Charity HospitalThe $475 million brings the state more than halfway to the financing it needs for building a new hospital on a lower Mid-City tract bordered by South Claiborne Avenue, Canal Street, Galvez Street and Tulane Avenue.
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Carnival season -- which sees more than 70 parades roll through greater New Orleans before Fat Tuesday -- is getting one more.
The Saints-crazed city plans to celebrate the team's first-ever trip to the Super Bowl with a parade to honor them...
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Added on Sunday, April 25: Juan Luis Guerra y 440, a Dominican singer who has sold over 20 million records and won nine Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards.
Moved to Saturday, May 1: Band of Horses will not appear during the first weekend of the Festival as previously listed.
Scratched: Gil Scott-Heron, previously announced for the Festival, will not appear this year.
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A New Orleans soda that got its start in a pharmacy more than a century ago has wound its way back to the quasi-health food category.
Vitamin Cold Rush, a spin-off of the venerable Nectar Soda label, premieres this week at a Tiger Express convenience store in Baton Rouge.
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The New Orleans Saints will make their first appearance in a Super Bowl. They will be playing the Indianapolis Colts — a franchise that has been to three previous Super Bowls. To get to next month's big game in Miami, the Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings in overtime Sunday 31-28. The Colts won over the New York Jets 30-17…
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If last year's Super Bowl offered visitors to Tampa an appetizer of Florida's foods, this year's game in Miami will provide a buffet of the international flavors found in the city…
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard
has offered up St. Elmo's famed shrimp cocktail with its fiery sauce as part of the city's wager on the Super Bowl. - Star file photo
In usual battle of the bets among mayor's of championship teams, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin have made their wagers for the Super Bowl.
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Get in the mood for that Second Line Parade...
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Don Banks breaking down the NFC Championship Game, Vikings at Saints (Sunday, 6:30 p.m. ET)…
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Just three items – coffee, beignets and milk – have kept Café Du Monde a must-see, must-sip destination in New Orleans for nearly a century and half. Sandwiched in the French Market between the French Quarter’s Jackson Square and the levees of the Mississippi River, the 400-seat Café Du Monde endures because of its simplicity.
Guests at Café Du Monde can enjoy beignets and coffee to the soundtrack of jazz played by street musicians.
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Over 122 people have been rescued from the rubble in Haiti since the 7.0 earthquake more than a week ago. 40 plus of those rescued were saved by American rescue personnel. Those who have traveled to the disaster scene contend there is death and destructions amid a hope for life and a city flourishing after rising from the rubble and ash in Port-Au-Prince. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, at the White Hous, connected the dots between Haiti and New Orleans.
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PJ's Coffee of New Orleans has partnered with the New Orleans Saints to produce a custom blend of co-branded coffee — Saints Black & Gold Blend will be launched this Sunday in the Super Dome during the NFC Championship game. Through a season-long partnership, PJ's Coffee is already the preferred coffee of the New Orleans Saints and is exclusively served in the Super Dome.
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This week on our program … VOA visits New Orleans, Louisiana, to learn about the recovery efforts since Hurricane Katrina …
…and plays music from several of the city's many jazz bands.
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It's a coffee cake with a twist and a history. The feted king cake of New Orleans is a confection made of braided Danish pastry, laced with cinnamon. Traditionally it's served between Epiphany (Twelfth Night) and Mardi Gras, which this year is celebrated on Feb. 16…
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Whether you're in the mood for an isolated neighborhood beer joint, a glitzy hotel cocktail bar, or a Bourbon Street cover bar where supercharged slushies flow, let the imbiber beware.
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Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro told the crowd gathered at Gallier Hall he spent his first year in office working tirelessly to put his "house in order"…
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New Orleans music icon Dr. John has endorsed mayoral candidate James Perry. The candidate's first celebrity endorsement was from the NBA's Grant Hill, an all-star with the Phoenix Suns …
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Follow Mike Pomeranz's journey to New Orleans via his video updates...
After leaving St. Louis on Tuesday, we'll head south on I-55 to Memphis and through Mississippi to New Orleans.
We'll be sending along any interesting pix and video we can!
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According to the Administrative Office of United States Courts, there were 18,268 bankruptcy filings in the state from Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, 2009, up 18 percent from the previous year's filings of 15,412.
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Under the proposal, the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corp. would essentially become the marketing arm of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau…
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Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina flooded St. Bernard Parish, the government is getting ready to remove the slabs from thousands of demolished houses. It's being called the largest concrete demolition and recycling job ever undertaken in the United States. Engineers have calculated that the amount of concrete from the slabs across Louisiana could build a four-foot-wide sidewalk from New Orleans to Los Angeles…
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Popular bourbon liqueur Southern Comfort has launched a new cinema advertising campaign entitled ‘What is Southern Comfort?’. The campaign, which will provide insight into the sprit-based liqueur’s heritage, will be screened in Moonlight Cinemas nationally.
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The earthquake disaster in Haiti, while owning tragic dimensions far worse that those of Katrina in 2005, nevertheless provides some insight as to the performance of FEMA in 2005, although it has been demonstrated in Congressional hearings, etc., that FEMA got a bad rap.
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New Orleans Krewe List and Parade Schedule…
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If people want to help the victims of the massive earthquake in Haiti, there are several businesses and churches in St.Tammany Parish that are taking collections…
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According to Wikipedia the definition of krewe is: A Krewe (pronounced in the same way as "crew") is an organization that puts on a parade and or a ball for the Carnival season. The term is best known for its association with New Orleans Mardi Gras, but is also used in other Carnival celebrations around the Gulf of Mexico, such as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa, Florida, and Springtime Tallahassee as well as in La Crosse, Wisconsin
It began with a simple question, “So, just what exactly is a krewe?” … And so we set out to “decode the krewes” as Mardi Gras fever grips the Capital City.
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More than 100 volunteers, organized by the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, tramped through mud in eastern New Orleans on Saturday, planting about 250 trees to help restore a wetlands forest decimated by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.
Before the storm, the Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, along with the surrounding forest land, was a top urban nature center.
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The father-son pair sat on the sidelines as they watched the NFC Divisional Playoff Game between the New Orleans Saints against the Arizona Cardinals.
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HBO unveiled more details about Treme, the New Orleans-set series from The Wire genius David Simon, and it sounds amazing. After The Corner, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire, and Generation Kill, I think a lot of us would follow Simon et al pretty much anywhere.
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The grande dame of New Orleans hotels — the Monteleone is 124 years old and has 570 rooms, making it the largest in the French Quarter — specializes in providing a first-class experience for guests, from luxury accommodations to everything-you-could-possibly-need amenities to attentive service.
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The Obama administration is changing the criteria that determine federal financing for transportation projects in a way that could give proposals to expand streetcar operations in New Orleans a leg up over competing projects elsewhere.
Mystikal has just been released from a Louisiana prison. This is after a six year stint in jail for extortion and sexual battery . He was arrested in 2004 after being accused of forcing his hair stylist to perform sexual acts on him after finding out that $80,000 in checks had been stolen.
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Spike Lee is back in New Orleans today, beginning work on a sequel to his Emmy-winning documentary series When the Levees Broke for HBO. While the sequel doesn't yet have a name, it's intention is to shine a light on the region five years after the devastation
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Vice President Joe Biden will be in Louisiana on Friday to announce steps that the Administration is taking to assist recovery and rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Songwriter Bobby Charles passed away this morning; the cause has yet to be determined. The writer of “Walking to New Orleans” and “See You Later Alligator” had struggled with ill-health for years, including back problems and a bout with cancer that was in remission...
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The Krewe of Muses, one of Carnival’s most all-time fun organizations, announced to its members this afternoon that the B-52’s — one of the music world’s most all-time fun bands — would be headlining the Muses ball Feb. 11.
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Event professionals from throughout the world are gathering in New Orleans for The Special Event 2010, which opens officially today at the Morial Convention Center. The event runs through Jan. 15.
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It has now been almost 5 years since Hurricane Katrina, and the citizens of New Orleans are still rebuilding. Physically there are only about 1300 miles that separate New Orleans and Port-au-Prince but these two cities are almost a century apart in terms of their wealth and level of development.
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The last 10 years, however, boasted numerous positives for this city’s music and its purveyors as is reflected by the responses of some of New Orleans’ movers and shakers to the questions: “What do you consider a significant musical milestone of the last decade?”...
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Drew Brees and the Saints haven't won a game since Dec. 13 and lost 23-10 to Carolina in Week 17.
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Instead of celebrating Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") on just one date this year, Michael Arnone invites you to join him for three big nights of Mardi Gras madness at Mexicali Live in Teaneck, NJ. From Thursday, February 11 through Saturday, February 13, Arnone is dishing up music and his famous Crawfish Fest fare: Crawfish Etouffee, Shrimp Creole, Alligator Sausage, Jambalaya and Red Beans & Rice.
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Powdered sugar covered Beignet, fried french donuts, and coffee wait to be devoured at the famous Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Sunday morning, Feb. 26, 2006. Mardi Gras, the first since Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, is in full swing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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The primary goal for the airport's new web site is to increase the ease of use by patrons and allow airport staff to more easily manage it…
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Today is the first Friday that New Orleans City Hall will be closed, as part of its new operating hours.
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Jersey Shore may be MTV’s biggest hit, but the network hasn’t forgotten their granddaddy of all reality shows—The Real World. The show is going into its 24th season, and it will reportedly take place in New Orleans...
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The U.S. Census Bureau upped the population estimates for New Orleans by 25,000, after a challenge using data from the Greater New Orleans Data Center, which will mean an additional $15 million in federal funds for the city, according to the Mayor’s Office.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will speak at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in April.
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Louisiana Public Broadcasting’s new series with Chef John Folse is called A Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Company: Our Food Heritage and is the eleventh collaboration between LPB and the internationally renowned Cajun and Creole Chef.
All of the previous series have aired on public television stations around the country. The new series is the companion to Folse’s best-selling cookbook, The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine, already in its fourth printing in less than two years. The 841-page book took more than six years to research and write…
Friday, January 8th @ 11:30am on LPB2
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Local restaurateur Hicham Khodr plans to open a French Quarter rendition of the historic Camellia Grill. He says construction will begin within a few weeks at 534 Chartres St. The building was long the site of Keuffer’s Bar and later housed a succession of short-lived restaurants, though it has sat empty for some time.
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A day after Troy Henry lashed out at the media for what he categorized as racially biased coverage the dynamics of the mayor’s race became further inflamed after Mayor Ray Nagin said on a local radio show that Henry’s accusations were accurate.
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Kitchen luminary Rachael Ray will ride as grand marshal of the Krewe of Argus parade on Fat Tuesday, the krewe announced Wednesday.
Rachael RayIn 1972 Argus, Inc. was incorporated as a carnival organization by several civic-minded Jefferson Parish business men in order to bring Mardi Gras to Jefferson Parish on Mardi Gras Day. The corporations name was changed in 1974 to Krewe Of Argus, Inc. so that there would a clear understanding of the organization.
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Massive Blue Dog sculpture at Vets and Severn is just one piece in a growing gallery
George Rodrigue's giant blue dog, er, red dog, is craned into place.
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There is now wine with a local connection on the list at La Boca, the Argentine steakhouse.
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Walk into a New Orleans charter or public school, and you're likely to meet teachers from all over the country working in the classrooms. It's not like that in many school districts in the nation, where teachers often work not far from where they went to school themselves.
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It's January 6th and tonight is Twelfth Night...the official start of the Carnival season and the first parade kicks off at 6 o'clock!
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NakedPizza, the single-unit healthful pizza concept that has attracted heavy-hitting investors, has signed a 50-unit development deal for South Florida, including Miami.
The deal is with Florida NKP LLC, which a Naked Pizza spokesman said on Monday is led by an international team of multi-unit foodservice veterans who have operated more than 77 fast-food, casual and fine-dining concepts throughout Latin America and Florida. At press time, information on the executives involved and the brands they have operated was unavailable.
Founded in late 2006 as one small store in New Orleans in an area that flooded during hurricane Katrina, NakedPizza (originally named World's Healthiest Pizza) was launched as an ambitious business model that seeks to change the nutritional profile of fast food in America. By way of example, NakedPizza is demonstrating that pizza does not have to be part of the problem in our national epidemic of obesity and chronic disease, but in fact can be part of the solution.
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Anthony Bourdain kicks off the inaugural New Orleans' Speakers Series Thursday, January 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts. Garrison Keillor and David Sedaris are scheduled as future speakers.
Bourdain at Garden District Bookstore in 2002.
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A TSA screener in New Orleans confiscates a Wildwood three-year-old's favorite toy. Josh Pitney was not allowed to take a pack of play doh on board his return flight to St. Louis, even though play doh is not on the TSA's list of prohibited items...
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In my home state of Louisiana it's traditional that January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany, is the time when Christmas trees are taken down and Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) decorations begin to appear. It also marks the beginning of King Cake Season.
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Preservation efforts by groups such as Audubon have been no match for coastal erosion... That is why Audubon is considering a measure that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: opening the sanctuary to oil and gas drilling. Profits would be used to pay for marsh restoration, multimillion-dollar land-building projects that Audubon cannot now afford.
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The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which in its 48 years has built a global reputation for presenting the traditional New Orleans sound, is taking a more contemporary approach these days — recruiting younger players, expanding its repertoire and allowing surrealist elements to creep into its performances.
The combination makes for a multigenerational mix with appeal to a range of musical constituencies, not just aficionados of traditional jazz…
A New Orleans man is sitting in a city jail after being busted at JFK Airport with credit cards he allegedly phonied up using the stolen IDs of dead children.
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For the second year in row, the murder rate in New Orleans dropped last year…
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The Warehouse New Orleans… REVISITED!
40TH Anniversary Tribute ShowFriday & Saturday, January 29 & 30, 2010 at 8PM
Harrah’s New Orleans Theatre
The Warehouse, a "legendary" New Orleans music venue in the 1970's, opened with The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac (before the girls joined the band) and The Flock, a local group from Chicago, on Friday & Saturday, January 30 & 31, 1970.Now 40 years later...on Friday & Saturday, January 29 & 30, 2010...Harrah's New Orleans proudly presents a tribute show to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Warehouse...titled The Warehouse New Orleans...REVISITED!
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Ignite NOLA is part of the Ignite Series which started in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. The objective was for innovators to share their ideas with one another. The tag line: “Enlighten Us, But Make It Quick” can sum up the event for new comers. Speakers from around the community coming to talk about what their most passionate about. The topic area can be about anything. Each speaker has five minutes with only 20 slides that auto advance every 15 seconds. This gives the speaker a tight window for their presentation but it also give the audience a way to digest all the great information that will come their way. In early February, the Ignite Series will come to New Orleans called IgniteNOLA. Passionate speakers from around the community will spread their knowledge to others. Come celebrate, network, mingle, eat, and learn all at the same time. IgniteNOLA
February 1st 2010 * 7PM to 9PM
Roosevelt Hotel
123 Baronne Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
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The New Orleans real estate market has been strong compared to the rest of the country, and could be getting even stronger in the new year.
Local real estate experts say that's especially true in Orleans Parish, and you might be surprised by the reason why.
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December 30th, 2009 ~ American Routes has been on the air for over a decade and it's time to celebrate. Live from the House of Blues in New Orleans, Nick is joined on stage by Dr. Michael White and his Liberty Jazz Band, the young Cajun band Feufollet, and New Orleans jump blues legend Deacon John, along with several special guests.
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The Crescent City is paying tribute to Cuban culture with the months-long “¡Sí Cuba!” initiative, a collaborative effort among New Orleans museums, universities, galleries and art organizations that will run from early January until late March.
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Fewer cabs than usual may be picking up passengers at New Orleans' international airport.
Friday is the first day that cabs must be able to accept credit card payments to pick up passengers at Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
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If someone would have told you in August that the New Orleans Saints would have a record of 13-2 when we ring in 2010, you would have said what?...
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