Before I started writing here, my main job was writing a Sports Business Column. Even while working here it is a column I still love to write as it gives me the freedom to look at Sports from a business perspective. That being said this is one of these stories I have been following for awhile now. The main problem here is their are folks in Los Angeles who are building a NFL stadium, without a NFL team to play in it. That means they will try and lure a team from a different city to play in their new stadium.

For some time now I have had the list of teams looking for a new stadium and possibly relocating at two; the Minnesota Vikings, and the New Orleans Saints. Now it looks like the Saints will continue to call New Orleans home until at least 2025.

Instead of giving subsidies to the Saints, the Louisiana State Government leased a bunch of office space from some buildings that New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson owns. These buildings are in the vicinity of the Super Dome and is a crucial step in the plan to redevelop the area surrounding that facility with mixed retail and office space.

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No .. you read that right. Yesterday Arielle Smith, 19, was facing second degree murder charges in New Orleans Louisiana for putting five month old Andre Jenkins into a tumble dryer because he would not stop crying. Apparently he was disturbing her television time while she was babysitting Baby Andre along with her own 1-year old son and Baby Andre’s older brother.

Baby Andre died from a skull fracture and horrific burns caused by the 175C temperature inside the dryer

"She was trying to watch something on television," said Assistant District  Attorney Amanda Calogero said.   

"She put the two older kids in a room, and she put the baby in the dryer and turned it on."  

Later Smith called the boy’s mother Brandy Dozier and told her Andre was  not  breathing.

Dozier had dropped her sons off at Smith’s home while she went to work.

Smith claimed she had spilt a pan of boiling water on him – but later confessed to putting the boy in the drier and turning it one.

Medical experts said the baby suffered second degree burns caused by the   scalding temperature inside the drier. The baby had burns on his feet, face, head, arms and legs.

He is thought to have been in the spinning drier for up to three minutes

Source: The Daily Mail

I wonder if Louisiana has the death penalty?

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