Brian Young News

Former Saints defensive tackle Brian Young is now volunteering as an unpaid assistant coach.

In better days, the Eagles' Shawn Andrews blocks out the Saints' Brian Young for Brian Westbrook.

Former New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Brian Young is spending this season as an unpaid assistant coach with the team.

The New Orleans Saints have won their first two preseason games of the year in impressive fashion, and they are flying high going into their third game.

The streak was astonishing, to say the least, when you consider that some pretty bad teams made the worst-to-first leap in that stretch: namely the 3-13 New Orleans Saints in 2005 and 4-12 Tampa Bay Bucs in 2006.

Brenda Bailey is still on a roll. This week, the 60-year-old South Charleston woman claimed her ninth West Virginia Lottery prize, $7,000 in the Gem 7s instant game.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Juarez since the beginning of 2009 due to drug violence, Chihuahua state police reported Saturday.

One firefighter was taken to the hospital and a horse was killed in a large wood-pallet fire Saturday in east El Paso County, Clint fire officials said.

Former UTEP Miner and NFL star Brian Young returned to El Paso for his annual football camp today and tomorrow at the UTEP Sun Bowl and Larry K. Durham Center.

Is it just me or has the Saints offseason seemed interminably long this year? Seems like forever ago that Gary Gibbs was fired and the savior Gregg Williams traversed Lake Pontchartrain to work his miracles at the Saints' facility on Airline Drive.

Mike Karney is back in town. And the former Kentwood High football star and current member of the St.

Morgan, who decided to come back in 2009 after a one-year stint in retirement, has battled injuries for much of his career, including suffering through multiple concussions and a partially torn Achilles tendon that nagged at him throughout the '07 campaign.

The New Orleans Saints are holding a rookie minicamp this weekend for their four draft picks, 13 undrafted free agents and assorted younger players on the roster.

Although no team selected Western Illinois running back Herb Donaldson during the NFL draft, he apparently was very much in demand afterward.

I had planned to start the morning off with team-by-team mailbags, but we had a sudden flurry of news around the division with the Saints releasing Brian Young , the Falcons making some roster moves and Tampa Bay kicker Matt Bryant winning the Halas Award from the Professional Football Writers of America.

Police are investigating after a couple of city streets were covered with inedible "chicken skimmings," including heads and feathers.

A quick review of last season would reveal the obvious: the Saints' defensive depth chart lacked quality, versatile players... Fleur-De-Lis-Fever by Paul Augustin, Jr.

Count Georgia receiver Kenneth Harris among that group of undrafted free agents who agreed to sign with the Saints, according to published reports.

Sorry for the delay on today's mailbag. I was working on the Brian Young story. His release was expected, but it's still too bad.

A San Angelo woman has been charged with aggravated assault with a weapon - her teeth - after allegedly biting off part of her boyfriend's lip in a domestic dispute.