http://www.247sportstalk.com Southern California Sports News, Rumors and Stories Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:04:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The battle for internet readership is what dictates most of the content you read online today.  Writers, bloggers and forum junkies alike, post as much controversy as they can dream up in hopes that their writing will start a debate that brings the eyeballs to their post (which is how ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/john-hollinger-idiot/ Most teams wrapped up their regular season on Thursday - Saturday night and are gearing up for the playoffs.  Below is a look at how the LA Times' top 25 Southern California HIgh School Football teams fared in their final regular season games: Rk. Team (Rec., Sec.-Div.) Result; next game 1 CRENSHAW (10-0, City-Division I) def. Jefferson, ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/high-school-footballs-top-25/ If I would have uttered the title to this article in any of the past ten years I would have been committing sportswriter suicide and my words would have bordered on sacrilege.  That said, there is no denying the mediocrity that has been brought about by this season's 3 loss ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/usc-university-class-football/ Thanks to a 2-0 overtime win against the Houston Dynamo, the Los Angeles Galaxy have found their way back to the MLS Final for the first time since 2005.  Coming off of recent seasons of turmoil, including a not so smooth start to the David Beckham $500 million era, the ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/la-galaxy-final/ NBA: Gasol to be out until Christmas?  Just kidding...ha ha...maybe (Link). Bosh, Wade and Lebron on the same team in 2010?  Don't count on it thanks to our failing economy (Link). Plus, Kobe tells Lebron to stop talking Free Agency (Link). Speculation that its not Stephen Jackson that is going to be out ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/247-rumor-mill-november-14-2009/ If you look at an NBA team's 82 game regular season schedule, there are always one or two games you can point to that you know are going to be tough for that team to win.  The Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers each played one of those games in ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/lakers-clobber-phoenix-clobbered-denver/ It may be early in the 2009-2010 NBA season, but judging by headlines like “Kobe’s Newfound Post Game Leads LA,” “Best Kobe Ever” or “Kobe Acts as Lakers’ Gasol-ine in Lakers Win,” it appears that Kobe Bryant has gotten off to a terrific start so far this NBA season. ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/kobe-age/ In what was a hard fought battle throughout, Sunday's game between the New York Giants and San Diego Chargers ended with an ironic reminder of the 2004 draft-day trade that was. Philip Rivers threw a game winning touchdown pass to Vincent Jackson with just 21 seconds remaining in the ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/rivers-merriman-keading-repay-giants-trade/ The NFL currently has 32 teams. Located in cities like New York (2 teams), Boston, New Orleans, San Diego, San Francisco/Oakland (2 teams), St Louis, Seattle, Phoenix, Detroit, Dallas, Houston and even Green Bay, the NFL appears to have all of its bases covered right? Well, not quite if you ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/los-angeles-deserve-nfl-team/ With likely future NFL-star Jake Locker leading the offense, it is no wonder that the Washington Huskies boast one of the most potent passing attacks in the Pac-10.  Locker is the main reason why a game that features two Pac-10 teams going nowhere fast (Washington is 2-3 in the conference ... http://www.247sportstalk.com/ucla-faces-washington-matchup-strengths/