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As expected, the New Orleans Saints have announced that assistant head coach/linebackers coach Joe Vitt will take over the day-to-day duties of coach Sean Payton when he starts his season-long suspension Monday. "It is important that we keep Sean ...

There appears to be a bit of a lull in the saga of the New Orleans Saints and their bounty program. Don't get too used to it. This is just a momentary pause, and new developments could come at any time. Things could start happening again as soon a...

Let's take a run through some NFC South headlines and a couple of programming notes. Ashley Fox brings up a good point in her column about how not having Bill Parcells step in as coach while Sean Payton is suspended will impact the New Orleans Sa...

We still don't know who will be coaching the New Orleans Saints next season, but we know who won't. Bill Parcells has informed the Saints he prefers to remain retired, Chris Mortensen reported Tuesday morning. Coach Sean Payton, who begins a se...

TAMPA, Fla. -- We've got news breaking all around the NFC South on Tuesday morning. I'm out at One Buccaneer Place, where Tampa Bay general manager Mark Domink just said the team is releasing safety Tanard Jackson. Dominik said Jackson, who was re...

Chris Mortensen reports it's a virtual certainty that Bill Parcells will not be the interim head coach of the New Orleans Saints. You can check out the news story here. I'm about to head into an interview and will be back shortly to analyze what t...

Soon after the news initially broke that New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton would be suspended for the 2012 season, there was a lot of speculation that his mentor, Bill Parcells, would step in to coach the Saints. Well, Payton's appeal of his su...

Now we know for certain that New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton will be suspended for the 2012 season, general manager Mickey Loomis will be suspended for the first eight games, and assistant head coach Joe Vitt will be out for the first six games....

If nothing else, Sean Payton's appeal of his one-year suspension from the NFL has bought him one more week as coach of the New Orleans Saints. It could end up being the biggest week of Payton's coaching career. Yeah, it's mid-April and, seemingly,...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly is expected to announce his decision on the New Orleans Saints' appeals of their punishments for running a three-year bounty program soon, perhaps as early as Monday afternoon. Stay tuned. I'll be here wit...

The New Orleans Saints have finished appealing their punishments for their bounty program. Coach Sean Payton appealed his one-year suspension. General manager Mickey Loomis appealed his eight-game suspension. Assistant head coach Joe Vitt appealed...

USA Today sports television writer Michael Hiestand throws out a fascinating suggestion, writing that the New Orleans Saints should be featured on HBO's "Hard Knocks" this summer. It would be a fascinating story -- a close-up look at a team prepa...

Time for a run through the top headlines from around the NFC South. Although it had been widely reported that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell would hear appeals from New Orleans coach Sean Payton and general manager Mickey Loomis on their suspensi...

NFLPA director DeMaurice Smith says the NFL must release to the union all relevant information pertaining to its investigation of the Saints' bounty program before making any recommendations or rulings on possible player discipline.

Time for a trip through some NFC South headlines. There has been some talk about how the Saints' woes could open the door for the rest of the NFC South. Here's some more and it focuses on the Panthers and Buccaneers. The Panthers clearly are a tea...

Since he took over as NFL commissioner in 2006, Roger Goodell has been so consistent that he's become predictable. Cross the line on anything that involves player safety or his precious "integrity of the game" and you're going to pay a steep pric...