Susan Shushan of Metairie kisses the Super Bowl ring belonging to New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams inside Nacho Mama’s Mexican Grill in Harahan. Williams has gotten to know the New Orleans area well and says being here has been a great fit, but opportunity appears certain to beckon.
Rested and relaxed, skin bronzed from a summer of golf, he was Tommy Bahama cool as he worked an overflow crowd at a fundraiser for his foundation.
This, of course, won’t last long. Come next Friday when the New Orleans Saints open training camp, he’ll disappear in a phone booth and emerge as the intense, full-metal-jacket hell-raiser Saints fans have come to know and love.
Coming Back Stronger, a memoir by New Orleans Saints quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees that released July 6, will debut at No. 3 on the New York Times’ hardcover, nonfiction best sellers list on Sunday, July 25.
According to Nielsen Bookscan, which accounts for about 70 percent of all books sold, it was the top selling hardcover, nonfiction best seller in the country last week.
It also appears on the USA Today best seller list that was released today. That list includes all fiction and non-fiction books, including both hardcover and softcover titles.
To promote the book, Brees appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, FOX News’s Hannity and On the Record with Greta, as well as dozens of other print and electronic interviews. B
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drew Brees is the big winner at the ESPY Awards, collecting four trophies, including male athlete of the year.
The New Orleans Saints quarterback also won best championship performance, NFL player and shared the team award with his Super Bowl champion colleagues.
The New Orleans Saints were also voted best team of the year at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles
Skiier Lindsey Vonn won female athlete of the year honors Wednesday night at the show hosted by “Saturday Night Live” comic Seth Meyers and aired live on ESPN from the Nokia Theatre.
Vonn was also chosen best female Olympian.
Landon Donovan of the U.S. national soccer team picked up three trophies, for best moment in a World Cup game against Algeria, best MLS player and the performance under pressure award.
Time has an impact on a lot of things. Look at your waistline, or hairline. Think about your ability to handle two consecutive nights out in Vegas, compared to when you were 21.
You would think time would also change the hierarchy of the NFL’s top players.
Surprisingly, it hasn’t done so the past six or seven years.
Any list of the top players still starts with Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. It’s been that way for a while.
Manning and Brady. Brady and Manning.
It’s chic to say Drew Brees has joined the Big Two to make it a Big Three at the top of the quarterback pecking order — and some might even have Brees ahead of Brady. But if you took a poll of general managers and asked them to pick the quarterback they’d most want to play with right now, I’d bet Manning and Brady would get the most votes.
That’s why they top my list of the Top 50 NFL players, just as they have the past five years.
By ANDY BENOIT
Scott Fujita was a solid player for the Saints. He was a consistent tackler; an eight-year veteran and defensive captain; a smart pass defender. He was beloved throughout the New Orleans community and within the Saint locker room.
But you can excuse the Saints for cracking a smile when they think about losing Fujita. Because when they do, they inevitably think about how that’s really all they lost. Oh sure, they said goodbye to running back Mike Bell, but he was third on the depth chart. They released defensive ends Charles Grant and Bobby McCray, but Grant was slowing down and sidelined during the playoff run, and McCray has been replaced by respectable longtime Bear Alex Brown. And sure, the Saints traded offensive tackle Jammal Brown. But they didn’t need Brown; he missed last season with injury.
In short, every key contributor from the Super Bowl champion Saints is back in 2010. (Except for Fujita.) 100 out of 100 G.M.’s would gladly play that hand — an opportunity to defend a title with the entire championship roster save for one solid defensive role player.
JACKSON, MISS. – Deuce McAllister hung up his cleats six months ago.
The former Ole Miss and New Orleans Saints star now begins Phase II – or Phase Deuce – of his life.
But before he embarked on the great unknown, McAllister enjoyed a night of reflection on Friday, when friends, family and colleagues feted him at a retirement dinner at the Jackson (Miss.) Convention Center.
“Celebrating a Saint” was a wonderful evening, with several heartwarming testimonials to McAllister and his standout career at Morton High School, Ole Miss and the Saints.
By about 10 p.m. Friday night, more than 50 fans were lined up at Barnes and Noble on Veterans Boulevard, with the line already around the corner and halfway down the building.
Fans kept coming after that, and it looks like they’ll keep coming throughout the night. The parking lot was nearly full by 10 p.m.
Claim to fame: He led the 2009 Saints to their first Super Bowl championship while throwing for 34 touchdowns and posting a career-best 109.6 passer rating. Brees threw for a career-best 5,069 yards in 2008. He has thrown for 30,646 yards in a nine-year career.
Case for enshrinement: Brees has been more than a quarterback for the Saints. Arriving as a free agent in 2006, Brees has helped New Orleans and the entire Gulf region rebound from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Brees has taken an extremely active role in the community and has done just as much on the field.
He is the perfect quarterback for coach Sean Payton’s offense. Brees has made the Saints one of the most fun teams in the league to watch while putting up huge offensive numbers. With Brees, the Saints have reached heights the franchise never came close to before.
In a just-filed U.S. Tax Court lawsuit, the partnership owning the Saints acknowledges that it didn’t treat an $8.5 million annual payment from the state of Louisiana as income and therefore didn’t pay taxes on the sum. Rather, the team said the money was an addition to “working capital” and a nontaxable transaction.
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