Tulane Football Program Still Standing

DALLAS -- They laugh because they don't want to stop to cry. The Tulane football team doesn't know where it will play this season. The 88 players, 10 coaches and assorted staff don't know where they will live. The players don't know where they will attend class. They have no money in their pockets. New Orleans bank accounts remain frozen. Many of them don't know what, if anything, in their homes remains dry and not looted.

In the grand scheme of what Hurricane Katrina hath wrought, their problems are slight. But they are no less easily solved. As the members of the Green Wave try to pick up the pieces of their lives, living in a DoubleTree Hotel some 500 miles from home, they also continue to try to exist as a Division I-A football team using borrowed or donated supplies.