Archive for February 7th, 2010

Marshall Faulk ran as far as he could from the dead-end Desire Projects. He bolted the New Orleans streets to play college ball in San Diego, then blossomed into an NFL star with the Indianapolis Colts. Forced to take sides in this Super Bowl, it was...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- The New Orleans Saints captured their first-ever Super Bowl championship Sunday over the Indianapolis Colts in stunning fashion, rallying from a third-quarter deficit to score 18 straight points to claim a 31-17 triumph.

MIAMI — The Indianapolis Colts may have had Peyton Manning on their side. But the New Orleans Saints had everybody else on theirs. They had the world pulling for them to win. They had President Barack Obama picking them to win. They had a team...

Right before getting on the team bus to go to the Super Bowl, Tracy Porter sat in the Saints' downtown Miami hotel, getting his head shaved by his regular New Orleans barber. Patches of hair left on Porter's mostly bald head included a rendering of the...

Resilience wins. The New Orleans Saints and their dedicated fans are the emphatic embodiment of that idea, with the latest reminder served up with a scintillating 31-17 victory against the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV at Sun Life Stadium on Sunday night.

Marshall Faulk ran as far as he could from the dead-end Desire Projects. He bolted the New Orleans streets to play college ball in San Diego, then blossomed into an NFL star with the Indianapolis Colts. Forced to take sides in this Super Bowl, it was...

The New Orleans Saints, for decades the NFL's lovable losers, used the biggest stage Sunday to answer the question their fans have been asking for 43 years. Who Dat think they gonna beat them Saints? The answer: Nobody. The unbelievable is a reality....

MIAMI (AP) — Marshall Faulk ran as far as he could from the dead-end Desire Projects. He bolted the New Orleans streets to play college ball in San Diego, then blossomed into an NFL star with the Indianapolis Colts. Forced to take sides in this...

Right before getting on the team bus to go to the Super Bowl, Tracy Porter sat in the Saints' downtown Miami hotel, getting his head shaved by his regular New Orleans barber. Patches of hair left on Porter's mostly bald head included a rendering of...

The ultimate underdogs, they ain't. Not anymore. The Saints are Super Bowl champions now. Who Dat? Try Drew Brees, Sean Payton and a team that has reversed its embarrassing past, carrying an entire city to the top with it. Put away those paper bags...