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PARIS -- Sunday morning, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and French President Francois Hollande retraced the path of the terrorists who attacked the city. At each of their six stops, they tugged a French flag away from the face of a marble plaque engraved with the names of the dead. The names were read aloud. In front of the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were murdered, the recitation took more than four minutes.When the streets in front of the Bataclan opened up again around midday, people were ready with candles and bouquets wrapped in cellophane. For close to an hour, they squeezed, one at a time, through a narrow opening in a barricaded area flanked by police and ringed by photographers and cameramen. Every gesture was documented several times over. Paris conducted its wake in a fishbowl -- the price it pays for being Paris.On Sunday afternoon, balloons floated upward from the town hall of the 11th arrondissement, the hardest-hit part of the city. Illuminated paper lanterns floated down the Canal Saint-Martin at dusk, accumulating along one bank, where the current pushed them. In the early evening at Le Barometre, a restaurant a couple of blocks from the Bataclan where panicked people took refuge the night of the shootings, owner Veronique Tafanel handed singer Cathy Gourier a message she had written to her customers. Thank you for your presence today, Gourier began.By 9 p.m. Sunday, it was 48 degrees, raw and misting at a nearby three-way intersection a year to the hour after two cafes there were raked with automatic gunfire. Most of the sidewalk tables were full under the diffuse glow of heat lamps.The curlicue writing on the chalkboard at La Bonne Biere advertised grilled flank steak avec frites et salade for 14.90 euros.People ate facing the street, as usual.This week, delegations from the three would-be hosts of the 2024 Summer Games -- Budapest, Los Angeles and Paris -- will present their cases to the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees in Doha, Qatar. Hidalgo will be there, transitioning from Sundays somber ceremonial duty to her own outward-facing lobbying effort for the city. The International Olympic Committee will make its selection in September 2017.Three previous Paris bid campaigns have been checkmated in the past 20 years. If this one succeeds, Paris would host on the centennial of the 1924 Games, an event elevated to myth through the portrayal of running rivals Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams in Chariots of Fire.Sentiment is a flimsy asset, as Greece, birthplace of the modern Olympics, found out when it lost the 1996 Games to Atlanta. Were perfectly conscious that its not enough, said Etienne Thobois, the CEO of the Paris 2024 bid committee. Were turned toward the future, not 1924. And its also a date that reminds us of how long weve waited.Its striking to see Paris ardent pursuit of the Summer Olympics, inviting the world in while its still in the recovery process, and how little internal resistance its bid has encountered. Financial overruns, human rights concerns, corruption and doping scandals have eroded the image of the Olympic industry and diminished the appeal for host cities. In this bid cycle alone, Bostons candidacy fizzled, Hamburgs citizens rebelled via referendum and Rome dropped out.Three terrorist attacks -- two in Paris and one in Nice -- in less than two years have dented tourism and prompted the government to extend the state of emergency status that grants sweeping powers to law enforcement. Authorities struggling to manage teeming migrant/refugee camps in Paris and the northern port of Calais took a hard line in recent weeks and cleared them out.Despite those obvious stresses, Paris 2024 opposition has been muted and scarce. Support has largely crossed party lines so far, with a presidential election looming next spring. Thobois and other bid leaders are pitching Paris plans as logical and efficient, an incentive to accelerate, rather than create, housing and transit development in the near suburbs that is already on the drawing board.We dont think theres a lot of risk in our particular case, said Thobois, a former Olympic badminton player.On a more symbolic level, the bid represents the resolve to finish something conceived before last years siege, at the very place where the Paris 2024 Games would open and close.The terrorists who launched multiple attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, intended the Stade de France, where Frances mens soccer team was facing Germany in a friendly match, to be a slaughterhouse. After the plan was thwarted by a vigilant security guard and an observant ticket-taker, three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the walls of the stadium in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis, killing one and injuring 56.France has played several times in the 80,000-seat stadium since then, including last summers loss to Portugal in the Euro 16 final. Fridays World Cup qualifier against Sweden didnt have nearly as much competitive meaning, but its positioning on this particular weekend gave it weight, and it sold out.It was still a soccer match, not a memorial service, and the crowd packing the RER B line platform at the Gare du Nord station surged impatiently toward the doors when the train stopped. The forward momentum lifted one woman off her feet, propelling her into the car and downward into the floor on one knee. A man helped her up and apologized for the mob mentality, then cracked a beer in a paper bag.As the train sped toward Saint-Denis, there was a sharp but indistinct sound -- maybe glass breaking, maybe metal catching, maybe someone stepping on a crackly plastic bottle. People instinctively whipped their heads around. A low, mocking adolescent voice shouted, On va tous mourir! (Were all going to die!)The fans got off the train at the stadium and did what fans do at sporting events every day, consciously or not: They bet it wouldnt happen that night. They bet on the people who would peer into their purses and pat their ribcages. They bet on percentages.In the stands, Dehbia Yata, a 38-year-old telecommunications engineer, said, I dont come often, but I came tonight to say, We are here, we are standing and we have to go on.She and most people hushed voluntarily after joining in a full-throated version of La Marseillaise. Distant, ambient noise drifted into the vacuum of the official moment of silence, something vaguely percussive, like a brush on a snare drum. It took a few seconds to realize it was traffic coursing by on the nearby A1 and A86 highways. People usually pass through this place, headed somewhere else.One of the most ambitious aspects of the 2024 bid is to change that dynamic. A new Olympic-size pool -- the only major competition facility Paris lacks -- the athletes village, media housing and several temporary venues are slated for construction in Saint-Denis.We arent building any white elephants that will be on the autoroute exit and wont be used once the games are done, said Stephane Troussel, president of the Seine-Saint-Denis council, whose department, or subregion, includes the city.Troussel, 46, grew up nearby and vibrates with enthusiasm about the bids potential to ramp up the quality of life in this industrial, polyglot area that is the youngest and one of the poorest in the country.The city is also irrevocably associated with the terrorist attacks. The leader and two other members of the group responsible for planning the spree died in a massive police raid five days later in the heart of the downtown area.A huge swath of playing fields and parkland earmarked for Paris 2024 use is a 10-minute bus ride away. On one clear, chilly day there last week, a group of young French-Pakistani men played cricket, French-Senegalese soccer players scrimmaged and a woman wearing a Muslim headscarf kicked a ball back and forth with her son.A group of young French kids of various colors walking toward the basketball court stopped to talk. Moussa, 14, said he hoped the Olympics would come to his hometown.I think there will be a lot of tourists, the economy will grow, maybe, and people wont be afraid of Saint-Denis anymore and their stereotypes that we all deal drugs or that there will be attacks all the time, he said.Sting reopened the Bataclan on Saturday night in a show that sold out in minutes. In the coming weeks, the club has scheduled African icon Youssou NDour, British legend Marianne Faithfull, and Israeli-French singer Yael Naim, who did one of her first gigs at the Bataclan.Naim and two other French female vocalists sang Jacques Brels Quand on na que lamour (When love is all we have) at last years national ceremony of mourning, to dignitaries and family members seated in the vast, echoing stone courtyard of the Invalides military museum complex.Im ready to welcome any emotions that will come, Naim said in a phone interview of her upcoming Bataclan show with partner David Donatien. I think it will be a mix of different emotions, and that will be fine.It became very precious to be able to continue to celebrate life this way, to go out and make music and share strong emotions together. People continued to come and fill the concerts, and that was a statement.The attacks altered the consciousness of Paris performers and audiences alike. Soul-funk band Urban Groove Unit canceled a date scheduled for the next night out of respect. But drummer David Lamy, who plays with several different bands, played his next gig at Paris famous Olympia concert hall and had to fight the unpleasant, selfish thought that he might need to protect himself.It wasnt in my head the whole concert, just two or three moments, Lamy said after Urban Groove Unit played the cozy LEntrepot club in the 14th arrondissement last week. He said the nerves passed quickly.Sophie, a 40-year-old working single mother, does not want her real first name used. Her former live-in partner was among the Bataclan victims. For days afterward, she compulsively watched footage of people fleeing the club, stopping when she realized she was still hoping to see him emerge.Im not one of those people who said, Lets go, Im not afraid, Sophie says as her cup of green tea with bergamot steeps in a café near Montmartre. I didnt have that reflex. Ill be very honest. I was afraid.Sustained fear gave way to anxiety that lurked and pounced more randomly. Waiting in line on the street outside a nightclub as security searched patrons one by one, Sophie felt a flash of anger: She felt more exposed, not less. She melted down in tears at the first big concert she attended at the Zenith hall, thinking, Im doing what he was doing.She doesnt believe an event like the Olympics would make Paris more of a target. Terrorists are more likely to hit people going about their daily routines, she said, because that has a greater impact. But if I had a vote, I would vote no, she added. Sports has become a huge industry, and Im not inclined to contribute to it.Veronique Tafanel feels differently. Itll help us to move on, she said.Within an hour of the attacks at the Bataclan, police arrived at the door of Le Barometre and told her they needed the space cleared to use as a command post. Tafanel ushered the traumatized people who had taken shelter in the restaurant up a back staircase to her apartment and told them they could stay as long as they needed to. Some didnt leave until dawn. Tafanel went downstairs and started cleaning.She lost 20 percent of her business while the Bataclan was shut down, but that isnt her chief concern. Tafanel has enough on her hands simply trying to be present instead of dwelling on the near inevitability that evil will reload.Sunday night, she stood quietly as Gourier, who performs regularly at Le Barometre, read her words to the 30 or so people eating and drinking as they listened: We have the audacity to smile. We have the audacity to laugh. This is our response.Gourier resumed her set, beckoning through the glass at people outside. Come in! she said. Its great in here! Paul Westphal Jersey ., for the next three years with the signings on Monday of Daryl Townsend and Michael Carter. Ivan Rabb Jersey . 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So LSU and Florida will meet after all.They will play 42 days later than originally scheduled and about 600 miles west of the original site.But the No. 16 Tigers will host the No. 21 Gators on Saturday afternoon in Tiger Stadium in a game postponed from Oct. 8 in Gainesville, Fla., due to Hurricane Matthew.The new date and location came after several days of contentious negotiations involving the two schools and the SEC.Look, anything that comes up that really is out of your control, I mean, you can sit and cry about it or you can just move on, Florida coach Jim McElwain said. Thats what weve got to do. It is what it is. Were going there to play and thats the way it is.These teams seasons have come much more clearly into focus than they were when the postponement took place.LSU (6-3, 4-2 in the SEC) is 4-1 since Ed Orgeron was named interim head coach after Les Miles was fired in the wake of a 2-2 start.Florida (7-2, 5-2) has put itself on the cusp of a second consecutive SEC East Division title, though it enters the game with at least seven starters sidelined by injury. If the Gators win, they go back to Atlanta to play West Division champion and No. 1 Alabama on Dec. 3. If they lose, they can still win the East if Tennessee loses either at home to Missouri this week or at Vanderbilt next week.Had this game been played Oct. 8, Florida likely would have avoided Tigers All-America running back Leonard Fournette, who was sidelined by an ankle injury. Fournette aggravated the injury for the third time this season in a win against Arkansas last week but hes more likely to play than he would have been six weeks ago.Derrius Guice has established himself as one of the top running backs in the SEC while getting expanded playing time due to Fournettes limited playing time.Florida has the No. 2 rush defense in the SEC (111.7 yards per game), but its top three tacklers -- linebackers Jarrad Davis and Alex Anzalone and safety Marcus Maye -- wont play because of injury.The Gators also could be without as many as three starters on the offensive line.They were injured when we were about to play and then I guess they got a couple guys back and now they lost multiple guys, LSU outside linebacker Arden Key said.dddddddddddd I know theyre scared to come up here because they dont have all their stars or whatnot.Both teams have starting quarterbacks who transferred from Purdue and werent starters at the beginning of the season. Danny Etling replaced a struggling Brandon Harris after two games for LSU.Austin Appleby will be making his fourth start of the season and second in a row because of injuries to Luke Del Rio.LSU, which concludes the regular season at Texas A&M on Thanksgiving night, will honor its departing seniors before a home game it wasnt supposed to have. A week ago, the Gators bid farewell to their departing seniors a week earlier than originally planned.Had this game been played as originally scheduled, LSU would be hosting South Alabama on Saturday and Florida would be hosting Presbyterian College in a tune-up for its regular-season finale at Florida State next Saturday.Gators players remember October speculation that suggested they werent eager to play the game then or now.I think the LSU game is one of the biggest games for us every season just like FSU, just like Georgia, safety Nick Washington said. I mean were going to go into it with a little more of a chip on our shoulder because of whats been said in the media and what not. I know were ready to go.So instead of playing a non-conference breather, LSU and Florida are meeting in a Top 25 matchup with important implications. In addition to the Gators trying to wrap up a division title and strengthen their long-shot of making the College Football Playoff, the Tigers are trying to enhance their attractiveness to bowls and strengthen Orgerons case to be the full-time head coach when these teams finally meet in The Swamp next season.We didnt have success in one game. Were 4-1, Oregeron said in reference to whats happened since he took over. Theres a lot of good things weve done. I really feel like we have a good football team, and I like that theyre having fun. ' ' '