Saints Coach Sean Payton is not happy with his quarterback after watching Monday night’s telecast of NBC’s Running Wild with Bear Grylls. In the episode, Drew Brees jumped on a live crocdile and stabbed it, plus he also rappelled a long way down into a cave. Payton says he thought Brees was going to be in some sort of “Sea World” type amtopshere and not the Panama wilderness…
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When asked if he would let Brees take part in a similar thing again, Payton said no, no, no.

In other Saints news…there’s a report that safety Jairus Byrd will resume practice this week and return by week three. Also running back CJ Spiller will reportedly not play in this Sunday’s season opener against Arizona.

In major league baseball action last night, former LSU pitcher Aaron Nola tossed seven strong innings in the Phillies five to nothing win over the Braves. Nola struck out a career-high seven and as he improved his record to six and two.

Sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris missed out on some valuable reps in a game atmosphere, because of Saturday night’s cancellation with McNeese State. So Harris will now get ready for his second road start of his career this Saturday against Mississippi State. It didn’t go very well for him at Auburn last year, but Harris says he’s more prepared this time around and the game comes easier to him…
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Kick-off on Saturday is at 8:15.

UL Lafayette football coach Mark Hudspeth is keeping it a secret again on who will start at quarterback this Saturday against Northwestern State. Brooks Haack started against Kentucky, but it was Jalen Nixon who led the Cajuns on a furious rally to that resulted in UL Lafayette tying the game at 33 after trailing by 23 points.