It's a weekend packed with festivals and sporting events that are sure to take a toll on traffic. The LA Times reminds us that things could get pretty snarled up on the roads around town: "USC plays Oregon at the Coliseum at 5 p.m.; the Cubs are at the Dodgers at 7 p.m.; Washington State plays UCLA at the Rose Bowl at 7:15 p.m.; and singer Neil Diamond performs at Staples Center at 8 p.m."......

Well, that was the headline the San Gabriel Tribune ran last week. "We are going to have a team here next September," John Semcken said. Semcken is the VP of Majestic Realty, Developer Ed Roski Jr.'s development company that plans on building a new NFL stadium... in Diamond Bar some 26 miles East of Downtown (last month they were saying city of Industry). Not only are they optimistic that we'll be getting a NFL team......

Rendering of Los Angeles Stadium. Courtesy LosAngelesFootballStadium.com LAist contributer and LA Times Bruins and Trojan blogger Adam Rose blogged about an encore presentation Majestic Realty Chairman Ed Roski gave to a group of local business leaders this past Wednesday on the plans for building the Los Angeles Stadium. The overall plan is to lure a team to Los Angeles within the next couple of years, 2009 being the optimal year. The team would play......

Jim Purol put his weary butt down in the seat at the Rose Bowl today that took him over the line and earned him the record for sitting in the most seats in 48 hours. The Pasadena Star-News reports that Purol took a load off in over 39,000 seats, which is only scratching the surface of the legendary stadium's 90,000+ capacity (as mentioned on the official site's facts list). What's crazier, is that Purol is......

Fan favorite Sanjaya Malakar has taken another step toward American Idol-hood. Tonight, it was portly Chris Sligh— the Jack Osbourne lookalike — who got the boot. Now we admit that Chris had an off night last night with a cover of The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic," but at least Chris can sing in tune. We can’t say the same for Sanjaya, whose tone-deaf fans obviously voted him into the American......