NEW ORLEANS -- Peter Finney, a sports writer whose award-winning career in New Orleans spanned nearly 70 years, died Saturday at the age of 88. Jacob McQuaide Jersey .His death was confirmed by the Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, which is handling funeral arrangements. His longtime former employer, NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune, reported that he died at his New Orleans home.Finney began his career with the New Orleans States-Item in 1945 and joined the Times-Picayune through a newspaper merger in 1980. He was the Times-Picayunes lead columnist for decades until his retirement in 2013.He covered the first game the New Orleans Saints ever played, in 1967, and their only Super Bowl, in 2010. His career encompassed all of LSUs national football titles, which occurred in 1958, 2003 and 2007.Finney wrote about 15,000 articles. A selection was republished in a book this year. It included his coverage of LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannons touchdown return against Mississippi on Halloween 1959 and Saints kicker Tom Dempseys game-winning, NFL-record 63-yard field goal in 1970.He profiled some of the most famous athletes of the past century, including boxer Muhammad Ali; golfers Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods; basketball stars Pete Maravich and Shaquille ONeal; football stars Joe Namath, Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Archie Manning, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning; Olympic track champion Jesse Owens and more.And while New Orleans has never been home to Major League Baseball, Finney profiled many of the sports biggest stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams.Finney attended more than three dozen Super Bowls. Having covered a Saints franchise that didnt have a winning season in its first two decades, and didnt win a playoff game until its 34th season, he summed up New Orleans first trip to the Super Bowl this way: Finally, all the comedy, all the catcalls, all the misery during the reign of the bag heads, have given way to Kismet.Finney also published books about the first 100 years of LSU football and a book about Maravichs extraordinary college basketball career at LSU.The Louisiana Sports Writers Associations columnist-of-the-year award was recently renamed for Finney, who also was honored with lifetime achievement awards from the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame.Finney was born in New Orleans, where he attended Jesuit High School and Loyola University. He began his career by covering American Legion baseball shortly after high school.One of Finneys six children, son Peter Finney Jr., became a journalist whose career included a stint as a sports writer for the New York Post before he returned to New Orleans to work for the Clarion Herald, where he is executive editor. Another son, Dr. Tim Finney, is an orthopedic surgeon and a former team physician for the New Orleans Saints.Funeral arrangements are pending. Josh Reynolds Jersey . - After leading the Saints to a fourth playoff appearance in five seasons, Drew Brees expressed confidence in the direction of his team and, perhaps more importantly, showed a willingness to listen to contract proposals if the team needs his help getting under the NFLs salary cap. Lamarcus Joyner Jersey . 10 Texas A&Ms offence dominated as usual against SMU. http://www.authenticramsshop.net/michael-brockers-rams-jersey/ . Lack made 20 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Canucks blanked the St. Louis Blues 1-0 in the first post-Olympic game for both teams night. South Australia 258 (Carey 76, Feldman 3-56, George 3-74) and 2 for 71 need another 375 runs to beat Queensland 7 for 475 dec and 7 for 228 dec (Heazlett 63, Renshaw 50)Scorecard Queensland opener Matt Renshaw improved his chances of a surprise Test call-up by adding a second-innings 50 to his century from the first innings, but Test incumbents Joe Burns and Callum Ferguson both failed again on the third day at the Gabba. Australias squad for the day-night Adelaide Test will be announced on Sunday and with several batting positions under discussion, all three Sheffield Shield games have been under great scrutiny.South Australia resumed on 9 for 222 and after their last pair pushed the total to 258 - wicketkeeper Alex Carey top scored with 76 - Queensland chose not to enforce the follow-on. That gave Burns and Renshaw a final opportunity to impress interim national selector Greg Chappell, who was at the Gabba, but Burns was unable to grab his chance and was lbw to Chadd Sayers for 2.It continued a horror run for Burns, who began the Shield season with a century but has now failed to reach double-figures in any of his past six first-class innings. Meanwhile the 20-year-old Renshaw, in his first Shield game of the summer having suffered a knee injury during the Matador Cup, showedd that he can switch gears by striking 50 from 51 balls as the Bulls sought quick runs to set the Redbacks a target. Gerald Everett Jersey. In the first innings, Renshaw had watchfully seen off the swinging new ball before he started to expand his strokeplay, and finished with 108. Renshaw averages 44.39 with three centuries from his 12 first-class appearances, and if selected for Adelaide will be the least experienced specialist batsman to make his Test debut for Australia since Warner, who had played 11 first-class games when he won the baggy green.Usman Khawaja was caught and bowled by Kane Richardson for 17, Marnus Labuschagne was bowled by Sayers for 8, and young batsman Sam Heazlett posted 63 before he was lbw to the part-time offspin of Travis Head. The Bulls declared at 7 for 228, setting South Australia an unlikely 446 for victory, and by stumps the Redbacks were 2 for 71.Ferguson, who made his Test debut in Hobart, was caught behind off Peter George for 4 and is experiencing a similarly lean patch to Burns, having not reached double-figures in any of his past five first-class innings. At the close of play, Jake Weatherald was on 33 and Head was on 13. 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