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It seemed such an intriguing idea: Coaching icon Bill Parcells taking over the New Orleans Saints while his protégé, Sean Payton, served a full-season suspension for his role in the team's bounty system. But Parcells, who had initially indicated he would at least consider the job in large part because of his relationship with Payton, made clear he intended to remain retired from the sideline and would not coach the Saints.  

rald sports staff Bethel High's baseball team fell to Vanden on the road Monday 9-5.Bethel (5-14, 3-8 in the Solano County Athletic Conference) was led on offense by DeAundray Taylor, who went 2-for-2 with a triple. Chris Bruno, Daniel Johnson, Matt Mitchell and Amoni  

Hargrove acknowledges that he acted on Williams' and Vitt's instructions to "play dumb" if asked whether he was aware of bounties being placed on former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre or any other player. The declaration is a point of ...  

Four players - Scott Fujita, Anthony Hargrove, Will Smith, and Jonathan Vilma - were notified today that they have been suspended without pay for conduct detrimental to the NFL as a result of their leadership roles in the New Orleans Saints' pay-for ...  

NEW YORK -- Willie Roaf is a former New Orleans Saints' player and remains a huge fan of the organization. He also knows that the team's bounty program had to be stopped, so it was with mixed emotions that he watched the team get disciplined this offseason.  

In comments to the NFL Networks Rich Eisen, Commissioner Roger Goodell said discipline against Saints defenders involved in what the league says was a bounty program is coming, "soon," although other sources indicate that is unlikely to come today.  

Bethel Music is heading to the UK. During their UK tour, they will be holding night services in the cities including Manchester, Bath, Horsham, Dudley, Cardiff, and Southampton. Bethel Music will create nights of passionate worship and encounter.  

I decided that my energy was better spent focusing on how to cure the disease and help inspire other patients rather than dwelling on how this may have occurred ... In the spring of 2011, Sean Pamphilon approached me, and we agreed to collaborate to ...  

Details of the contract were being finalized. Tollefson, 29, spent the past five seasons with the New York Giants, where he played a part in their winning two Super Bowl titles. He's an Ygnacio Valley High-Concord graduate and also attended Los ...  

Proving that it's not only reality stars who have Twitter feuds, the claws came out in the NFL on Wednesday when former New Orleans Saints player Jeremy Shockey was accused of snitching on his teammates by spilling the beans on the controversial ...  

In singles action, Bethel won at No. 5 with Ramer, No. 6 with Sarah Johnson and Neuenschwander at No. 3. Prior to the match, the NCCAA announced that three Lady Pilots had earned NCCAA All-American honors. O’Grady garnered first team All ...  

Hannah Grow, a 5-7 outside hitter and defensive specialist, hails from Ada, Michigan and Forest Hills Eastern High School, where she competed for the 2011 Conference Champion Hawk Volleyball ... Washington comes Kali Johnson, a 5-9 outside ...  

The Tangs relocated from Hawaii to Redding last decade. Tang, then a pastor in Hawaii, first encountered Bethel's message in 2003 in Pasadena, where he heard Bethel Pastor Bill Johnson speak. "Quite honestly, God called on us to move," Tang said.  

“Seconds later, a huge tree came down across my deck and bounced,” she said, adding the large tree tore down part of the guttering and left deep holes in the roof. “It just scared the fool out of me,” Johnson said. Johnson, who has insurance and is ...  

Council members dressing up in the early American garb were Donna Gunn, Priscilla Johnson and Amy Planck. Ausman’s wife ... Administrator Travis Dotson said he looked through the village’s records to see how the anniversary was celebrated ...  

BETHEL, Maine — State police and the Oxford County Sheriff’s Department are continuing to seek the public’s help in the search for a Bethel woman who has now been missing nearly two months. Fay Johnson, 62, has been missing since early ...  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Former Saints defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove describes in a sworn statement how he was told by ex-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and current New Orleans assistant head coach Joe Vitt to deny the existence of a bounty program to NFL investigators.  

The Green Bay Packers might not have to immediately overcome an eight-game suspension on recently-signed defensive end Anthony Hargrove. Hargrove and three other players are expected to appeal NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's suspensions that he handed out for the New Orleans Saints' bounty system.Hargrove's declaration to NFL regarding Saints bounty scandal can be found here. The gist of it was this: Hargrove lied to NFL investigators in 2010...  

This Mother's Day, instead of getting your mother flowers or a basket of cheap bath and body products, get her something she would really like. If you have a mother who is a fan of the New Orleans Saints, this Mother's Day will be no sweat for you. Here is your gift guide to the top New Orleans Saints Mother's Day gifts:  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Drew Brees said in a radio interview Wednesday night that he is frustrated by what he views as a lack of communication with the New Orleans Saints in his ongoing contract negotiations, adding the club should have shown more urgency to get a long-term deal done.  

The New Orleans Saints will honor Sean Payton this season by leaving an empty seat for the suspended head coach in their locker room and on team buses and planes. Payton, who is in exile in a downtown New Orleans skyscraper after his season-long ban, won't rejoin the team until after next year's Super Bowl. The Saints will compensate for his absence by acting like he died, rather than looked the other way during a pay-for-play bounty system...  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) An email from an imprisoned friend of the Saints coaching staff with a postscript saying, ''put me down for $5,000'' on Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has become another sore point between players being punished for New Orleans' bounty system and the NFL.  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Suspended Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, claiming the league's top executive made false statements that tarnished Vilma's reputation and hindered his ability to earn a living playing football.  

The Saints might not have made any long-term decisions about where Martez Wilson fits best in coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s defense, but they are experimenting with Wilson, a 2011 third-round pick who played in 13 games as a linebacker last season, at a new position and are happy with what they have seen so far.  

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The NFL is close to determining punishment for players who were involved in the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal but a ruling is unlikely to come this week, Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday. Goodell said National Football League (NFL) officials would probably be too busy with the three-day player draft starting on Thursday night in New York to wrap up a decision on punishment for players who were rewarded for...  

Sean Payton will coach in 2012, just not in the National Football League. Payton plans to use his exile from the NFL to spend time with his family, including his 13-year-old son Connor. The suspended coach of the New Orleans Saints will reportedly spend part of his year-long suspension coaching his son's football team. Connor made the news last year for taking a vested interest in who his father's team drafted. He wanted the Saints to pick...  

So says New Orleans Saints quarterback Chase Daniel. The backup QB tweeted that the newly suspended Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma found out about his one-year NFL ban on "SportsCenter." Minutes after the news broke, Daniel wrote: Nobody from the league office thought to call the guy they were suspending for the season? It's not like Roger Goodell had to dial him up. An intermediary could have channeled the information through the...  

On Tuesday morning, Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said something on the radio that will most likely be interpreted by many as sour grapes, coming as it did from the man whose team lost the 2011 AFC Championship game to the New England Patriots. Asked by Baltimore radio station 98 Rock about recent NFL scandals involving the Patriots and New Orleans Saints, Harbaugh gave his philosophy regarding the "It ain't cheating if you don't...  

Following the NFLPA’s decision to file a grievance on behalf of Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith, Anthony Hargrove and Scott Fujita for the suspensions handed down earlier this week for participation in the Saints' bounty scandal, the NFL has released a statement in response.  

Even as defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove was appealing his NFL suspension Monday for participating in the Saints' bounty program, it was learned that a signed document was received by the league through the NFLPA that details how he was instructed in 2010 by current and former New Orleans assistant coaches Joe Vitt and Gregg Williams to deny the team had a bounty program.  

(Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) suspended four players on Wednesday for their role in the New Orleans Saints' bounty scheme that paid players for hurting opponents. Here is a timeline of key events since the scandal surfaced: March 2 - NFL investigation shows Saints coaches and between 22 and 27 players had a bounty system that gave cash rewards for knocking opponents out of games from 2009-11. March 6 - Saints' head coach Sean...  

As Doug Farrar pointed out, remembrances of Junior Seau filled Twitter from the moment the news of his death broke. Most came from his contemporaries, the men who knew Seau  on the football field and in locker rooms. But one came from an unlikely source who didn't start in the NFL until after Seau retired. Eric Olsen, an offensive guard for the New Orleans Saints, shared a sweet story about how he met Seau in high school, and the encounter...  

The players union is scheduled to have its grievance against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell heard Wednesday, with the NFLPA questioning the league's authority to punish players for participating in an alleged bounty program with the Saints.  

(Reuters) - Suspended New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has filed a defamation lawsuit against National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell over statements regarding a "bounty" scheme reportedly used by the Saints.  

Rookie minicamp is a time for the new kids to come into a new team facility and basically learn where to line up. Running in the right direction is considered a plus, and anything else is gravy in what is … Continue reading →  

METAIRIE, La. (AP) Chase Daniel has completed 75 percent of his passes during his first three years in the NFL, which would rank him among the league's top quarterbacks if not for the fact that he's only thrown eight passes.  

NEW YORK (AP) The NFL players union has challenged Commissioner Roger Goodell's authority to suspend players who participated in the New Orleans Saints' pay-for-pain scandal and wants him removed from hearing appeals.  

NEW YORK (AP) A former U.S. attorney hired by the NFL to evaluate its investigation of the New Orleans Saints' bounty program said Thursday the evidence shows players received payments for hits on targeted opponents.  

Drew Brees expressed frustration over the “lack of communication” between the Saints and his agent in the ongoing contract stalemate, according to a report by PFW correspondent Mike Triplett of The Times-Picayune.  

Evidence shows that New Orleans Saints players received payments for hits on targeted opponents, according to a former U.S. attorney hired by the NFL to evaluate its investigation of the team's bounty program.  

New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has been suspended for an entire NFL season, one of four players sanctioned Wednesday for taking part in the bounty scheme that paid players for hits on opponents.  

New Orleans linebacker Jonathan Vilma, who was suspended Wednesday for the 2012 season by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for Vilma's reported involvement in the Saints' bounty scandal, vows to clear his name.  

The Louisiana State Senate voted to formally request the NFL reconsider penalties against the team as a result of the bounty program the Saints allegedly employed under defensive coordinator Gregg Wiliams.  

METAIRIE, La. (AP) The New Orleans Saints are bringing defensive tackle Akiem Hicks back to Louisiana, three years after his chance to play major college football for LSU fizzled before it had even begun.  

Text Wednesday of the statement issued by NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith on penalties issued by the NFL for players involved in the New Orleans Saints' pay-for-performance/bounty program:  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and three other players suspended in the NFL's investigation of New Orleans' cash-for-hits bounty system challenged their punishments Monday.  

NEW YORK (AP) NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league is still doing interviews regarding player punishments that likely will be handed down for the Saints' pay-for-hits bounty system.  

Update: According to interim head coach Joe Vitt, Toon displayed good hands and speed in separating himself from other players at Saints minicamp, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune.  

NEW YORK (AP) An arbitration hearing into whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has jurisdiction to punish Saints players for the team's bounties program has been set for May 30.  

New Orleans Saints general manger Mickey Loomis denied Thursday that he listened in on opposing coaches' conversations, and would welcome speaking to investigators on the matter.  

Browns LB Scott Fujita, facing a three-game suspension with the NFL alleging he was part of the Saints’ pay-for-performance scandal, once again denied his involvement Tuesday.  

New Orleans Saints general manger Mickey Loomis denied Thursday that he listened in on opposing coaches' conversations, and welcome speaking to investigators on the matter.  

With the possibility that Drew Brees won't attend the Saints' offseason program next week, interim head coach Joe Vitt said the team might bring in another quarterback.  

Saints interim head coach Joe Vitt denied instructing defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove to "play dumb" when questioned by NFL security about the team's bounty program.  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says he isn't taking any of Drew Brees' recent complaints about the slow pace of contract negotiations personally.  

The Saints announced Sunday the restructuring of several top management positions within the organization, including the promotion of Dennis Lauscha to team president.  

Suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton may be back along the sidelines later this year -- and he won't need NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's permission.  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Rita Benson LeBlanc will become vice chairman of the board of the New Orleans Saints and Dennis Lauscha will take over as president of the team.  

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's ruling to suspend four players in the New Orleans Saints bounty program reportedly has been contested by the Players Associaton.  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) The Louisiana Legislature is asking the NFL to reconsider the penalties imposed on the New Orleans Saints because of its bounty program.  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) A person with knowledge of the surgery says New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram underwent an arthroscopic procedure on his knee.  

Carolina Panthers defensive end Charles Johnson has knee surgery recently and may miss the rest of the team's voluntary workouts and minicamps.  

METAIRIE, La. (AP) The New Orleans Saints have selected Nebraska offensive tackle Marcel Jones in Saturday's seventh round of the NFL draft.  

Though Joe Vitt will coach the New Orleans Saints in Sean Payton's absence, no one will sit in the suspended coach's chair while he's away.  

With the Saints bounty case moving to grievance hearings and court, NFL owners will talk about player safety when they meet on Tuesday.  

METAIRIE, La. (AP) The New Orleans Saints have drafted Samford cornerback Corey White in Saturday's fifth round of the NFL Draft.  

METAIRIE, La. (AP) The New Orleans Saints have selected Syracuse guard Andrew Tiller in Saturday's sixth round of the NFL Draft.  

The New Orleans Saints and quarterback Drew Brees have made no progress on a long-term deal, according to an ESPN.com report.  

Drew Brees continues to be bold in expressing his emotions regarding the slow pace of contract negotiations with the Saints.  

NEW YORK (AP) The NFL players' union grievance against the league in the Saints bounties scandal will be heard Wednesday.  

METAIRIE, La. (AP) Former NFL star Al Toon answered the phone, handed it to his son, Nick, and watched his face light up.  

BEREA, Ohio (AP) Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita says he is innocent in the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal.  

The union is wrong to challenge the NFL’s suspension of four players without also saying bounties are reprehensible.  

The Saints' veteran is essentially being viewed as the brave kid standing up to the schoolyard bully.  

The New Orleans Saints promised that a long-term contract for quarterback Drew Brees will get done.  

A possibly exorbitant third franchise price tag may provide the team extra incentive to ink Brees.  

New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma is appealing his season-long suspension from the NFL.  

Defensive tackle Remi Ayodele signed a one-year contract with the Saints.  

Roger Goodell better have the goods.  

Suspended Saints coach will enjoy family time  

The Saints signed DT Remi Ayodele to a one-year contract, the team announced on Monday.