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There is good reason to consider Nader Abdallah to fill in as the rotating captain for the defense. Considering the way we've seen Ohio kids play against the Buckeyes, especially in the 'Shoe; it wouldn't be surprising to see him play like a man possessed.
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Bittersweet homecoming for Buckeyes' Abdallah
By Jon Spencer, (Mansfield, Ohio) News Journal
COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Ohio State defensive tackle Nader Abdallah is the only Buckeye going home to New Orleans to play LSU in the national championship game on Jan. 7.
Which begs a tough question: Home to what?
His family's downtown business and their home in nearby Metairie, La., were destroyed two years ago by Hurricane Katrina. His father, Younes, and mother, Izzieh ? both Palestinian immigrants ? have moved back to the Middle East. Two brothers and a sister relocated to Houston.
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Tattered Remains, Unbreakable Family Bond........by Jeff Rapp. Great read. 
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National title game brings Abdallah family back to New Orleans to finish their story
By Tom Archdeacon
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Sunday, December 23, 2007
He was passed out cold on the attic floor, overcome by exhaustion, by the fumes of a nearby leaking gas pipe, by the sense he just wanted a moment's respite from the overwhelming destruction, the bullet-riddled anarchy, the seemingly hopeless consequence that surrounded him on all sides.
By nightfall, if the water lapping at the attic floorboards didn't kill him, the looters already shooting at him likely would.
That was Wesam Abdallah's predicament after the winds of Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, and the floodwaters from the broken levees submerged much of the city.
He was trapped in the attic of the Abdallah family's combination grocery, restaurant, butcher shop, clothing store, video-game room and check-cashing kiosk ? the ghetto equivalent of a Wal-Mart, a place local folks called Hulio's ? at the corner of LaSalle and Sixth, just across the street from the notorious Magnolia Projects in uptown New Orleans' Third Ward.
"He would have died," Nader Abdallah, Wesam's youngest brother and the Ohio State Buckeyes' 295-pound starting defensive tackle said before practice the other day. "But that's when something unbelievable happened. He'll tell you, it was a miracle."
After some initial hesitation, Wesam ? or Sam as he's known to longtime friends ? did tell it by phone from Houston, where he now lives: "I haven't told this to anybody but my family and friends. It was really crazy.
"I'd gotten dizzy and passed out. All of a sudden, though, I had a bird flapping its wings in my face. A big hole had been ripped in the roof, and that bird flew in and woke me up. That's when it hit me ? I had to get out of there or I'd be dead."
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Nader says this will be the greatest experience of his life and he is looking forward to returning to Louisiana.
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Buckeye preps for emotional return to Big Easy
UPDATED: 2007-12-26 04:38:57 MST
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When the Ohio State Buckeyes arrive in New Orleans on Jan. 2 for the national championship game against Louisiana State University, defensive tackle Nader Abdallah will serve as unofficial tour guide.
There are parts of his hometown, however, he'll stay away from. Seeing them again is just too painful.
"I'll take some of my teammates and show them around, show them the sights, but I don't want them to go far," Abdallah said. "There are some sad places now. There are parts of town that looked like they were destroyed yesterday, not two years ago. There are certain places that will never get back to normal."
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