Latest Katrina sports update

James Lee Witt, the former FEMA director who is currently advising Louisiana governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco on recovery efforts, says the Superdome may be too damaged to save and may have to be torn down. The director of the dome calls this mere speculation. If so, it would be at least three years before New Orleans would have a football stadium large enough to house the dome's current tenants (Saints, Tulane). The next largest football stadium in the city is Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park, which holds 26,500.

The Saints-Giants game will be played Monday, Sept 19th at 6:30 CT. TV coverage starts on ABC and moves to ESPN2 when the regularly scheduled Monday night game begins.

No word yet on the rest of the home schedule, but the Saints have expressed a preference to play in Baton Rouge. However, there's no certainty that Tiger Stadium will be able to host LSU this season, let alone another team.

Speaking of LSU, they will play Arizona St this weekend in Tempe instead of Baton Rouge.

Nicholls St is scheduled to play at Indiana this weekend, but has yet to arrange transportation to Bloomington. They do expect to be able to make the trip and play.

Tulane announced the relocation of many of its sports programs yesterday.

The football team will enroll and play home games at Louisiana Tech in Ruston.

The men's basketball, women's swimming and diving, volleyball and soccer teams will enroll and play at Texas A&M.

Baseball and women's basketball will enroll and play at Texas Tech.

Rice will take in the men's and women's tennis teams.

SMU will host the men's and women's golf teams.

The Tulane cross country teams will not run this season.

The Nashville Predators of the NHL have offered the partial use of its arena to the Hornets. The Hornets have made no announcements regarding its plans beyond training at the Air Force Academy.

The University of New Orleans does not play football, but announced yesterday that its basketball teams will enroll at the University of Texas at Tyler. Those teams may play home games there as well if the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans is not usable by the time the season starts.