Steve Gleason News

The 610 Stompers will hold its fourth annual Ball Crawl June 8 from 1 to 10 p.m. through Uptown.

I have been sitting quietly off to the side, biting my lip, in the weeks since the 2013 draft while the football pundits issue their proclamations about how all the teams did.

Terron Armstead of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, shown here at the 2013 Senior Bowl in January, was the seventh tackle selected in the NFL Draft.

Fujita, an 11-year football veteran and a linebacker for the Saints from 2006 to 2009, helped lead the team to a Super Bowl victory in his last year with the Saints.

The Saints selected offensive tackle Terron Armstead with their own third-round pick in the NFL draft, then made a pair of quick trades that allowed New Orleans to also draft defensive tackle John Jenkins in the same round.

Terron Armstead is now the latest small-school project on the Saints offensive line.

Steve Gleason announced the 75th pick of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall.

I was originally going to call this Bucket List "Climb to the top of Machu Picchu in Peru, sign a one day contract with the Saints, and retire", but then I realized Scott Fujita had already beaten me to the idea.

As Scott Fujita ends his career at Machu Picchu, many wonder if Jahvid Best should be the next Bear to retire.

NFL linebacker and Super Bowl champ Scott Fujita, who has been speaking out since 2009 for marriage equality and has appeared in videos for Americans for Marriage Equality, among others, retired from the New Orleans Saints yesterday, making the announcement with photos from Peru he posted to Twitter .

St. Margaret's nursing home hopes to open by June at this redevelopment of the former Lindy Boggs Medical Center at S. Jefferson Davis Parkway and Bienville St.