The Saints have moved their home opener against the Giants to Giants stadium. The game is schedule for Sunday, Sept 18, but will not be played that day because the Jets have the stadium that day. The Saints and Giants will play either the day before or the day after.
Oklahoma City has offered the Ford Center to the New Orleans Hornets for the upcoming NBA season. No word yet on whether that offer will be accepted. The Hornets will begin training camp in October in Colorado Springs at the Air Force Academy.
Tulane announced today that it will not have a fall semester for its students. However, its athletic teams will compete. Where its home games will be played at this point is unknown, and may be announced as they come up.
The Green Wave is currently being hosted by SMU in Dallas and preparing for a September 17th "home" game with Mississippi St.
Tulane updates can be found at the athletic department website and at the school emergency website.
LSU is back at practice for a home game next weekend with Arizona St, but that game may not be played at home. The LSU campus is housing many hurricane evacuees, as is the rest of the city of Baton Rouge, and the idea of bringing in another 90,000 people to the city, even if just for a few hours, may not fly. Expect an announcement on that early next week.
Nicholls St, which cancelled its game this week at Utah St, has cancelled all athletic events until further notice. The school website only mentions the events scheduled for this weekend as being cancelled for sure, so we can assume that cancellations will be announced as the events arise. The Colonels' football team is scheduled to play at Indiana next week.
The Sun Belt Conference was affected as well. They are headquartered in New Orleans, but had to evacuate. They are currently set up temporarily at UL-Lafayette.
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Jerry, the LSU faithful seem utterly distraught at this arrangement that Bertman reached with the ASU AD. What is your take on the situation? Personally, as a degenerate LSU fan, I could care less where they play the game- particularly in light of the Katrina situation.
Also, man, you sure have changed your stance on LSU. You would vote them as #2 right now!?
I dunno, us out in Sun Devil country are singing: "Fight, Devils down the field
Fight with your might and don't ever yield
Long may our colors outshine all others
Echo from the buttes,
Give 'em hell Devils!
Cheer, cheer for ASU
Fight for the Old Maroon
For it's hail, hail, the gang's all here
And it's onward to victory!"
Give it up LSU, you ain't got no chance.
I think I'll give LSU the benefit of the doubt and let them play before I drop them in the rankings.
I'm surprised that LSU is going there this year without the 2008 game being moved as well. They're going to reschedule another game in Baton Rouge, so it ends up being a 2-for-1 for ASU. I don't think I'd have done it that way, but I'm not sure what the other options were.
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