New Orleans Hopes to Make Superdome a Home Again
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A crowd of more than 68,000 is expected for Monday nightÂs game at the Superdome, along with conflicting emotions about the reopening of the stadium.
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New Orleans will host the 2008 NBA All-Star Game, the league announced Monday, providing a boost to a beleaguered city still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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A symbolic sense of normality will   return to this hurricane-ravaged city when the New Orleans   Saints host the Atlanta Falcons at the Superdome on Monday   night.
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In post-Katrina New Orleans, the land speculators are moving in to buy up devastated properties, but the real opportunist may be the guy next door, just trying to bring back his neighborhood
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With Game 3 of the World Series at Busch Stadium on Tuesday, the St. Louis Cardinals are hoping that the comforts of home make a difference against Boston.
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While New Orleans haggles over a master redevelopment plan, people in some neighborhoods have been rebuilding on their own.
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NEW ORLEANS - Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden may not have realized it, but he had the perfect four-leaf clover for his teamâs 0-4 start as it walked into the Louisiana Superdome Sunday morning.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower  Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd  a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing  high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, "Homeric" scale, like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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The French Quarter may be open for business, but not enough tourists are showing up to buy. And if New Orleans stands any chance of having a real economic recovery, that has to change
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On Saturday, New Orleansâs biggest and most lavish Mardi Gras parade will pass through the heart of the city for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flooded much of its traditional route.
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The Saints reopen the Superdome on Monday night with a game against Atlanta that's got all the trappings of a Super Bowl, from a performance by U2 to an appearance by the first President Bush to media from around the globe. More than anything, though, the game will be a celebration of one of the country's most unique cities, and the people who call it home.
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Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, "Homeric" scale
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The New Orleans Saints have gotten off to fast starts before. They're hoping their latest one is followed by a strong middle and stellar end to the season.
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As the water, if not the crisis, has receded in New Orleans, Brett Anderson has returned to his beat of covering the cityÂs legendary restaurant culture.
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Lost amid the hype of the NFL's  long-awaited return to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans on Monday  night is the battle for supremacy in the NFC South.
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Hoping to win, hop on a plane and receive good news when they got back to New Orleans, the Saints instead headed home Sunday knowing their season was over.