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City's Best: New Orleans' Top Five Athletes

By Tom MantzouranisJun 22nd 2007 – 10:07PM

FanHouse is posting the top five current athletes for America's top 25 cities with the following criteria: 1) Who would a New Orleans fan say is his/her favorite athlete? 2) Would the player's name (or face) be familiar to locals who don't follow sports? Find your city's top five: ATL | BOS | CHA | CHI | CIN | CLE | DAL |...

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An ESPY Award (short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) is an accolade presented by the American cable television network ESPN to recognize individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the calendar year preceding a given annual ceremony.

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