JEFF DUNCANis a sports columnist for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and has covered the Saints for the newspaper since 2000.

He has worked as a reporter throughout the South, including stops at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, USA Today, Florida Today, The (Monroe, La.) News-Star and The St. Petersburg Times. Several of his stories have won national and regional awards. Besides covering sports, he served briefly as a news reporter for The Times-Picayune in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Reared in Louisville, Ky., Duncan received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Louisville in 1986. A resident of uptown New Orleans, he is the author of two books, Tales from the Saints Sideline and From Bags to Riches.

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