Back in 2002, fresh-faced out of college, I applied to a bunch of jobs on sites like Monster. A lot of them began with headlines like "Want a Job in Sports?" Turns out that these were usually jobs where you hang out in the bowels of Yankee Stadium and get people to fill out credit card applications in exchange for a free t-shirt.

Want a job in sports, indeed.

Except that's what the New Orleans Hornets seem to be saying. And it's not the credit-card-application type job either.

It's a Finance Controller. And a Director of IT. And an Inside Sales Manager. And they're having a job fair to bring in applicants. I've never been a hiring manager at an NBA team, but I'm guessing most openings aren't filled this way.

The Hornets face two unique challenges -- the first, obviously, is that New Orleans, post-Katrina, isn't exactly a boom town. The second is that the Hornets have actually played their last two seasons in Oklahoma City. So instead of re-relocating, a lot of their employees stayed in OKC.

In any case, if I lived in New Orleans, I might just drop my application in for this job.