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Organizers of this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest say the band Red Hot Chili Peppers has been added to the lineup of the 2022 event

The latest USA Today NFL power rankings have the New Orleans Saints in the middle pack, across the league and in the NFC South, via @DillySanders:

The Saints have never made a selection from No. 16 in the NFL draft, but the last time they were at No. 19 they found one of their best-ever pass rushers: Wayne Martin

New Orleans didn’t forget the big man’s taunt from 2019.

Free agency may have been relatively quiet for the New Orleans Saints, but the offseason has been busy. Here is every move the Saints have made so far this offseason, via @RossJacksonNOLA:

NEW ORLEANS — The most enduring moment of North Carolina’s 72-69 national championship game defeat against Kansas, the moment that epitomized the kind of perseverance and never-quit spirit that led the Tar Heels to the season’s final Monday night, came with less than a minute remaining and UNC still hoping,…

Looking at the best player props for Kings-Pelicans on Tuesday.

NEW ORLEANS — North Carolina became so comfortable with making big shots in big moments in its race to the NCAA men's basketball national title game on Monday that surely it felt like one more was in store with 4.3 seconds left and trailing 72-69 against Kansas.

NEW ORLEANS — Here was Bill Self's wife, Cindy, hurrying to embrace him with a grandchild in one arm. Daughter Lauren was up next. And then came his ecstatic mother, Margaret, for the hug of all hugs.