Posts Tagged By BRETT MARTEL

Saints ready to practice with Payton again

New Orleans Saints NFL football coach Sean Payton and executive vice president and general manager Mickey Loomis slap hands after their respective foursomes went head-to-head in competition on the ninth hole during the annual Saints Hall of Fame Celebrity Golf Classic at Chateau Golf and Country Club in Kenner, La. Monday May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/NOLA.com-The Times-Picayune, Ted Jackson)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even as Sean Payton tried to make the best of his one-season bounty banishment from the NFL by spending time with his children, getting in shape and playing golf, he often compared his punishment to prison time.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , ,

Pelicans’ new practice center taking shape

METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Monty Williams wore a white hard hat with a New Orleans Pelicans logo on it as he toured the construction site that will become his team’s practice center next season, and discussed the benefits of not just its amenities, but also its location alongside the practice fields of the NFL’s Saints.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,