Monday, August 20, 2006

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Cowboys-Saints

Shreveport Times

The New Orleans Saints call Louisiana
home, but there’s a clash of loyalties between the Saints and the Dallas
Cowboys for local NFL fans in Shreveport-Bossier
City. The Saints and the Dallas
Cowboys meet in an NFL preseason game at Independence Stadium in front of a nationally
televised audience Monday night. ESPN’s Monday Night Football will broadcast
the game. Dallas is only 200 miles away from Shreveport-Bossier City and has five Super Bowl championships since its inaugural
1960 season. New Orleans is 340 miles away and has one playoff win since its
inaugural 1967 season.

Houston
Chronicle

When the Saints and Cowboys play at Shreveport,
La., on Monday night, New
Orleans running back Deuce McAllister is expected to
play for the first time since tearing the anterior cruciate
ligament in his right knee Oct. 9,
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Clarion Ledger

Saints coach Sean Payton said McAllister will start and
will get a significant number of carries to see just where he is in the
recovery. The plan for McAllister will likely be similar to the one Payton had
for quarterback Drew Brees, who played three series –
he was replaced three minutes into the second quarter – in last week’s
preseason opener at Tennessee. Brees is coming back from shoulder surgery after tearing
his labrum last December in his final game with San Diego.
Brees said last week he felt the normal morning-after
soreness associated with having played the previous day, but no setbacks with
the shoulder. The Saints hope to be just as fortunate with McAllister, who
appears to have responded well to more physical practices this week. McAllister
was held out of the game against the Titans for more rest. But Payton said it’s
vital that McAllister runs against full-speed, full-contact competition. Monday
will mark the first time the Saints play McAllister and top draft pick Reggie
Bush together. “We can both save each other’s legs,”
Bush said. “We’re going to do everything we can to work together instead of
against each other. But we are going to compete.”  Bet the NFL now at -107 juice!
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The Advocate

Dallas coach
Bill Parcells announced Saturday wide receiver Terrell Owens won’t suit up
against the Saints because he hasn’t practiced enough since returning from a
tender hamstring that caused him to sit out 14 consecutive days of practice.
Rookie Marques Colston has spent a lot of time
running with the first unit this week and could be making a push to take one of
the five or six receiver spots. A seventh-round draft pick from Hofstra, Colston is one of the
bigger receivers in camp at 6-foot-4 and 231 pounds and he has shown surprising
speed.