Monday February 8, 2010
- ‘Who dat’ rejoicing? Saints fans. Hard-luck New Orleans gets its biggest wish: A Super Bowl victory. (LA Times)
- Saints aren’t the first to call on fleur power (NY Times)
- Mardi Gras comes early for Saints’ faithful in New Orleans. Mass attendance at St. Louis Cathedral Sunday morning was as big as Easter Sunday, the mass crowd dressed in black and gold, said Monsignor Crosby Kern, who led the sermon. After praying for the Saints, Kern pulled on a Drew Brees T-shirt and shook hands with parishioners. “We asked God to take care of our Saints,” Kern said. The prayers were answered Sunday night. (USA Today)
- On Super Bowl Sunday, churches filled with black and gold worshippers (The Times-Picayune)
- If you are curius about Drew Brees’ birthmark on his cheek, this is a good story from Sports Illustrated to explain it
- Brees’s colleagues see an amazing athlete within (NY Times)
- Saints, and their city, believe in miracles (LA Times)
- French Quarter prays for Saints: A report from a black-and-gold tinted Mass service in New Orleans Former Archbishop Alfred Hughes welcomes various groups to the service. When he welcomes “of course, all of those in black and gold,” the church erupts in unchurchly applause. To close out the service, Archbishop Hughes suggests a patron saint “for all of those interested in the outcome of tonight’s game” to pray to: St. Joan of Arc. “As a saint,” the archbishop says, “she rode a colt to victory.” Louder applause. (Wall Street Journal)
- Who dat in a Brees jersey? Monsignor Kern. Rev. Msgr. Crosby W. Kern of St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans wore a Drew Brees jersey underneath his vestments while celebrating Sunday Mass. He even led a “who dat?” cheer outside the Cathedral. (NECN)
- Saints contain Colts to capture Super Bowl for New Orleans, America (Player Press)
- After a Super Bowl triumph, joyous New Orleans swings to the rhythm of the Saints (Washington Post)
- New Orleans Saints win Super Bowl XLIV for Who Dats everywhere (Times Picayune)
- Retired Archbishop Philip Hannan has been there for the New Orleans Saints from the beginning (The Times-Picayune)
- Catholic history of New Orleans Saints runs deep (Catholic News Agency)
- Saints lift New Orleans’ spirits, but Lower Ninth Ward still has long way to go following Katrina (NY Daily News)
- Louisiana high school student sent home from school for wearing Colts jersey on ‘Black-and-Gold Day’ (USA Today)
- Tebow ad falls short of the hype. Sponsored by Focus on the Family, the antiabortion message takes an understated approach, though some criticize Tim Tebow’s ‘tackle’ of his mother, Pam. (LA Times)
- A guide to the best local restaurants in new orleans: Fabulous food is the rule, not the exception in New Orleans. Dine at these local favorites for the best meals in the city, and perhaps the most delicious food in the world. (Essortment)
- Louisiana history under 10 flags (Louisiana Secretary of State)
- Archbishops of Indianapolis and New Orleans make Super Bowl bet (Catholic News Service)
- Mahalia Jackson, once and future gospel queen (UMNS)
- They don’t just trust—they verify: Good Housekeeping puts its own money behind its recommendations. No government agency does by Laura Vanderkam (Wall Street Journal)
- Solo voyager Jeff Beck: The guitarist has left many famous bandmates to pursue adventures in jazz and electro, but now rejoins with Eric Clapton (Times)
- Cut the lights, fire the cops, let the grass go brown: One city just says no to more spending (National Post)
- Damien Rice puts his music where his morals are (LA Times)
- Austin: ‘Live Music Capital’ is hearing less music these days (NY Times)
- Sinatra song often strikes deadly chord (NY Times)
- In Goth they trust: For the fans and curators alike, it doesn’t matter that Tim Burton’s Goth-infused mix of populism and lowbrow culture doesn’t really merit a show at MoMA. (Wall Street Journal)
- A rare blend, pro football and Hasidic Judaism (NY Times)
- ‘Blind Side’ finds a path to the Oscars by running up the middle (NY Times)
- You really can be bored to death, scientists discover (daily Mail)
- Sowing subversion in the field of relativism: More important than winning the argument against relativism is winning the relativist for Christ by Mark L. Y. Chan (Christianity Today)
- A giant of the diamond: In “Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend,” James S. Hirsch gives us the first authorized biography of one of baseball’s greatest players. (Wall Street Journal)
