ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

It’s been a long hot summer, but now it’s time for the NFL regular season to get underway. If you haven’t read it yet, now would be a great time to pick up a copy of Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life by Ellis Henican and Sean Payton. 
The New Orleans Saints will [...]

ELLIS BOOK NEWS: HOME TEAM ON THE RADIO

In a funny, informative, and enlightening interview, Ellis Henican tells Mark Viviano – on the Fan-  some never-before-heard stories about writing Home Team, about working on the book with Sean Payton, and about some of the controversial things that make this book such a fascinating read.

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ARIZONA IMMIGRATION ISSUES NOT AS HOT ON LONG ISLAND

 ”Arizona’s immigration fight seems far away from LI”,  Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 4, 2010 
Ready for another hot-blooded round of immigration debate? Ready or not, here it comes.
Barack Obama’s big speech was Thursday. And any moment now, the Justice Department will be filing suit against the state of Arizona, contending that the toughest-in-America immigration law is [...]

ELLIS BOOK NEWS: I LOVED WRITING “HOME TEAM”

I loved writing “Home Team.”
Heading back to my battered and beloved home town to tell the inside story of this remarkable triumph — what could be a better adventure than that?
Sean Payton is a fascinating guy and a brilliant football coach.  He and the Saints gave an extraordinary gift to New Orleans — just when the city [...]

HENICAN: LIBERAL MEDIA NOT IN THE TANK FOR BP AND OBAMA

Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories.
(Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel)
 
On the June 19, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the panel discussed the media’s coverage of the Oil Spill in the Gulf and [...]

SEAN PAYTON – INSPIRED TO HELP GULF OIL SPILL VICTIMS

 ”As oil gushes, Saints coach clings to hope”  Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, June 18, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — It’s always something around here.
Sean Payton, the high octane Saints coach, was standing by the bar in Emeril’s restaurant, holding an early copy of “Home Team.”
The book, which comes out in 10 days, tells a modern story of [...]