Drew Brees and the Saints are moving towards a contract extension. ?Yes, I think we?re close and I would be surprised if it?s not done before the weekend?s out," said GM Mickey Loomis. "Hopefully sooner than that.?

The Saints re-signed defensive end Bobby McCray on Thursday after cutting him last month. The team signed McCray to an undisclosed one-year contract. McCray started all three of the defending champions' playoff games last season.

USC has cut all ties with former Heisman winner Reggie Bush. The move comes after the NCAA heavily sanctioned the school for Bush's reported dealings with prospective agents. USC president-elect Max Nikias has announced that the school will return its copy of Bush's award to the Heisman Trophy Trust and remove "all jerseys and murals" that recognize the running back's college career by mid-August. "This thing, regarding USC and the NCAA, is the closest thing to death without dying because I have such a great love and respect for the university," Bush said. "This has been one the toughest things I've had to deal with in my life."

Saints quarterback Drew Brees has opened up about many things, including his mother's suicide, in his new book, "Coming Back Stronger." Brees had been hesitant to discuss the tragedy in the past, but openly wonders in the book whether he could have done something to save his mother. In the book, Brees writes, "I ask myself the question often: Could I have saved her?" His mother, Mina, took her life in August of 2009.