New Orleans: Mayor Ray Nagin Wins [J. Mark English]

Just spent my whole evening trying to get over my terrible flight. And so I'm going to continue to stay away from sports for one more post, and just relay that Mayor Ray "chocolate" Nagin won re-election, and will have the next four years to re-unite the Big Easy.

Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane Katrina, narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history.

With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Nagin had 52.7 percent, or 51,885 votes, to Landrieu's 47.3 percent, or 46,625 votes.