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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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Perfection is hard, there’s a reason that only one team in NFL history has been able to pull it off. And, despite what their record may have suggested, the Saints have been far from perfect this season. Their defense has droped [...]
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I’m not sure what it is about perfectly excellent journalists producing questionable online videos, but NOLA.com seems like a breeding ground for it. Last week (and many before that, actually), it was the otherwise-commendable David Hammer’s Madden 10 highlights gracing the front page, and [...]
If you haven’t check it out already, do yourself a favor and read Wright Thompson’s essay, “Saints the soul of America’s city” on ESPN.com. Thompson, who covered LSU at the Times-Picayune from 2001-2002 does a pretty masterful job of explaining to a national audience what the Saints mean to [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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You may not have guessed it with the way they collapsed against the New York Knicks at home last Friday or how they trailed Dallas by as much as 24 on Monday, but this Hornets team still' [...]
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Screengrab from NOLA.com at 5:00 p.m. Saturday
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So I head over to NOLA.com today to read up on Drew Brees being named King Bacchus (preemptive move to more easily turn Bacchus into a championship parade? I think so) and I come across another headline that catches my [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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For just a moment during the Hornets’ 113-96 loss to the Knicks tonight, it seemed like New Orleans was finally putting all the pieces in place. It was around the time they scored a season-high 62 first-half points and, with a [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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Any Who Dats that are making their way up to Atlanta (and any poor souls that have to call that city home) for this weekend’s Saints-Falcons game take note: Rebirth Brass Band will be playing Friday and Saturday night at [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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Unlike some lucky people, I couldn’t make it out to Gambit’s Lawman Watch Party at Theo’s (as of this writing the first of back-to-back episodes is just finishing), but there is a silver lining: I was able to catch Drew Brees’ appearance [...]
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Photographs by Jonathan Bachman
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Fact: With tonight’s 96-94 victory over the Sacramento Kings, the Hornets have won their last six games at home and are 7-2 at the Arena this season.
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Not a Fact: Just over three dozen people have witnessed every home win. Or at [...]
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Photo lifted from the Saints’ Online Store
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In case you haven’t noticed, the Saints have clinched the NFC South a year after finishing in last place (apparently, this is some sort of trend). At 12-0 and a possible perfect season within a reasonable hope, a [...]
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Despite what many may think, the Saints have no easy games left on their schedule. If yesterday’s 33-30 overtime win over the Redskins wasn’t to your liking, take a moment to consider the facts. The Washington Redskins, despite their 3-8 record coming into Sunday, had a top-10 [...]
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Photographs by Jonathan Bachman
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OK, that headline is a bit misleading, but considering that the Hornets didn’t announce Chris Paul would be playing until 90 minutes or so before tip-off and that attendance at the Hive was just over half-full, it sure seemed [...]
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In the great halls of the Superdome, there are assembled some of the world’s four greatest heroes, created from the cosmic legends of the universe.
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Superman - The speedy, blond deliverer of justice. So busy he couldn’t possibly hold still for a photo. His original [...]
Clay A. Smith
Bob Dylan said it best, with poignant brevity, “…yea these times are a changing.” And yet there are still those, an ardent few (small in numbers but large in temerity), that cling with religious conviction to the antiquated notion that these Saints are some how an aberration. Well even those incredulous [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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If this feels like the biggest Saints win in franchise history, well, it’s because it is. A decisive win on Monday Night Football against the team that has set the standard for excellence in the NFL this decade? Yea, for the New [...]
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Photograph by Greg Rhoades
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Bacchanal will be hosting it’s last night of their “An Adventure Every Day” exhibit with photographs by Greg Rhoades. It was supposed to last just two weeks and now, six months from the exhibition’s launch, it’s finally coming to an end with a [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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We’re at a point in this incredible Saints’ season that, so long as they keep winning, every game is the biggest game of the year. Right now, every game we’re looking at continues the possibility of a perfect regular season and pretty soon [...]
Clay A. Smith
Its hard to look past teams in the NFL. But with a Monday night “Clash of the Titans” that features the undefeated Saints (10-0) and the New England Patriots (the NFL’s version of the Sith, thank me later Star Wars fans) on the horizon, Sunday’s inter divisional varsity [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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It’s still early, but considering how the Hornets started the season, it’s hard not to feel good about this team right now. The Hornets made 12-of-17 three-point attemps and snapped the Hawks’ seven-game win streak in their 96–88 win tonight at the Hive.
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“It [...]
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Photo lifted from Last Angry Fan
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Chris “The Mayor” Paul won’t be playing in tonight’s Hornets game against the Atlanta Hawks. But that won’t stop him from rocking out his Hornets sports blazer, surfer-dude haircut and awesome combo moves.
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Wait, what?
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Yea, that up there is [...]
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New Orleans continues to amaze me. Already riding a buzz from an exciting NBA game and a few post-game drinks last night, my intrepid photographer and I went to Le Bon Temps to catch the Soul Rebels last night. We caught them just as they finished their [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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In the course of eight days, the Hornets have gone from being humiliated by the Suns by 20 points in Phoenix to winning 110-103 with a brand new coach and scheme in New Orleans. Energy. Motion. Fluidity. It’s been a long [...]
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Once upon a time, I used to scour the internets and local chain pharmacies to find the most ludicrous Saints-related merchandise. I was never disappointed, and hopefully neither were you, dear reader. In any case, with the holiday season fast-approaching, I’ve decided to resurrect this [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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The Los Angeles Clippers are not a very good basketball team. Part of what makes good teams good is the ability to consistently beat the not-very-good teams. The Hornets have already done away with the Clippers twice this season and, if [...]
Clay A. Smith
If you believe that there’s such a thing as a moral victory, than what would you classify Sundays’ inexplicable “dramedy of errors” in St. Louis as? The Saints pulled out the victory, thanks to some much needed heroics from Courtney Roby and everyone’s surrogate fall guy, Reggie Bush-but [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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Anyone who expected the Hornets to play like a completely different team tonight after Byron Scott was fired as head coach was sadly dissapointed (and, frankly, has unrealistic expectations). The Hornets lost to the Portland Trailblazers 86–78 in front of a listless 14,742 [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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The Hornets are 3–6 and flying under the radar because of the Saints’ superb season but that won’t stop the Bees from making headlines. According to many sources, Byron Scott has been fired after New Orleans’ abysmal 124–104 [...]
By Clay A. Smith
The Saints are a franchise best 8-0 and sit alone atop the NFC. But for three consecutive weeks New Orleans has spotted their opponents substantial leads, only to erase them in the waning moments of the game. They fell behind by twenty-one against the Dolphins and their [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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Hot Gumbo:
Sean Payton — So made a pretty mystifying decision early in the fourth quarter when he called a timeout before unsuccessfully challenging a Marque Colston incompletion in the end zone, but he called an otherwise flawless second half for the Saints. [...]
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From the Hornets PR department:
Hornets Owner George Shinn announced today that he has recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer but remains healthy, optimistic and committed to maintain his regular schedule that includes serving the New Orleans community and leading the organization to championship performance on and off [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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OK, before we get into the amazingness that was the Hornets’ 114-107 overtime win over the Mavericks, I have to mention one thing: Where were all the Hornets’ fans? Official attendance was 13,566, a paltry number that was whittled in half by the [...]
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Photograph by Greg Rhoades
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OK, I know I promised to be done with the VooDoo posts but I forgot about this one and, seeing as how it’s an ongoing story, it doesn’t really count.
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Anyways, if you know anything about brass band music in this city [...]
by Clay A. Smith
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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It’s been a while since we last did this, but I’m glad we got back to work for Monday Night Football. The Who Dats were out in force early (word of mouth says tailgating began around noon) and as [...]
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Will did a great job of giving you the rundown on the headlining bands yesterday. I did my best to stay away from the main stages (save for Widespread Panic, whom I had never seen before yesterday). And, this being VooDoo, goign to the secondary stages [...]
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KISS may have lit up the sky with their fireworks but the real history was made inside the Bingo Parlour where Morning 40 Federation played their first live show since Mardi Gras. Joined by Clint Maedgen of the New Orleans Bingo! Show, the Morning 40 boys [...]
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There are bingo shows and then there’s the New Orleans Bingo! Show. I’ll take the latter every time. I’ve settled on a genre for them: Neo-Carney Circus Rock. I think that about sums up the insanity that goes up on stage. And off it, on occasion.
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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With the Saints undefeated and going into a huge Monday Night matchup against the Falcons all on the tail end of Halloween/VooDoo weekend, it’s excusable if New Orleanians overlooked the Hornets home opener (though the 17,306 in attendance would suggest otherwise). Well the [...]
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Nothing. Rain, though, had something on everyone today. It came, it went, it came again and eventually the darkness drove us back to the car and towards the shelter of the New Orleans Arena. Not before stopping by the Bingo Parlour and seeing a [...]
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There’s going to be pictures and stories and maybe some sound (alas, not live music. But you can get that right here). Theere’s going to be stories about pictures of people taking pictures and maybe some audio of people talking along with their picture.
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New Orleans is as big a bicycle city as they come in the United States. Thanks to it being almost completely flat, you can make it from A to B anywhere in the city on a bike in about 20 minutes. But New Orleans [...]
By Clay A. Smith
To borrow a phrase from the epic classic Rocky Balboa, the Saints “got on the job training in courage,” in their 46-34 point win over the Dolphins. Okay, perhaps characterizing any of Sylvester Stalone’s cinematic undertakings as a classic or an epic is both objectionable as well [...]
Clay A. Smith
“Trap Game”- an ostensibly winnable contest, usually following a physically and or emotionally taxing win, that has all the makings of a potential upset. The Saints are riding high after their 48-27 drubbing of the prematurely anointed New York Giants in the Super Dome this past Sunday. Suddenly, [...]
By Clay A. Smith
Many viewed Sunday’s battle of the “undbeatens” between the Saints and Giants as a seminal moment for both teams. The Saints took a 4-0 record into their week five bye (the first time since 1993), and Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning dispelled any notion of a post injury [...]
By Clay A. Smith
The New Orleans Saints cruised into their week five bye with a surprising 4-0 record, and they’ve done it with relative ease. When the Saints aren’t blowing away teams (and the point spread) with their explosive offense, their defense is clamping down on the opposition with vice [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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Gold Man! Fighter of the G-Men! Champion of the Dome! He’s a master of Fleur de Lis and gumbo for everyone!
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In the quiet mist of a Louisana morning, a cool 80-degree fall breeze clears the haze in front of a glistening figure [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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Why hello, there. My name is Dr. Travis Von Phrenogelous. Yes, I understand that’s a strange name for a Cajun zombie witch doctor but allow me to explain. My mother was married and then undeaded at Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 by [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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This is a man that knows you don’t always have to have the best costume to have the best time. Simplicity is key — sometimes all you need is some beer and a pair of sweet sunglasses. Beer Glasses, you have [...]
( It is my belief that Who Dats are the most creative and fun-loving fans in all of the NFL with their elaborate costumes and sheer dedication — and this is a life-long Redskins fan talking. So, to honor you all, we will post pictures of the best Who Dats [...]
