Much like the coaching staffs he is charged to protect, New Orleans deputy mayor Lt. Colonel Jerry Sneed, USMC retired, says that good game preparation is the key to success. Speaking as a keynote at the second annual National Sports Safety and Security conference, Sneed, who became New Orleans' first director of Office of Emergency Preparedness and director of Homeland Security following the disaster of hurricane Katrina, considers himself the most politically incorrect member of the present city government. But there is no doubting his passion for protecting the citizens of his city from the war he says has been brought to America's doorstep. “We are at war whether we like it or not,” he said to a crowd of more then 500 sports...