Carver's field of dreams brings hope to Ninth Ward community

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Another tear jerker. ESPN has been good about this lately.

Carver High School athletic director Brian Bordainick sat in the Rue de la Course coffee shop in downtown New Orleans at 6 a.m., six days before Christmas. The lanky, 23-year-old New York native was hunched over his computer, headphones on, trying to respond to the hundreds of e-mails he'd received in the past 24 hours, when an older man walked up to him.

Without a hello, the man slapped a $20 bill onto the table. "I really believe in what you're doing," the man said. "Get this done." Then he walked away.

A few hours later, Bordainick's cell phone rang, and he was greeted by the familiar twang of the "Ragin' Cajun," political analyst James Carville. The CNN/XM radio show host explained that he'd learned of Bordainick's "Field of Dreams" mission to build a state-of-the-art football and track facility in the Ninth Ward, slated to be the first community-driven field of its kind in New Orleans. Carville asked how he could help.

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