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By By Wright Thompson
ESPN.com

Monday, September 18, 2006

NEW ORLEANS — Raindrops hit the roof of the truck, each like a stick on a snare drum, collecting on the windshield and flowing down to Girod Street. They add to the ones that fell before, the water rising. Billy Zacharie sits in the driver's seat, parked near the Superdome loading dock. Golf carts and forklifts move furiously, ignoring the tan Dodge pickup, getting the building ready for Sept. 25, for the future. He's quiet, the air filled with soft gospel music from the stereo, the rhythmi ...

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