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When the Chargers had the first selection in the 2004 NFL Draft, the consensus number one pick was Eli Manning.

Be sure to watch, said Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson , whose spot in San Diego was secured as part of a draft-weekend blockbuster trade, in 2001.

After bullying weak division rivals the last two weeks, it's time for the Chargers to pick on a team their own size.

Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson For the first time in their NFL careers, Philip Rivers and Eli Manning will face each other Sunday in New York.

Philip Rivers calls it "one of those little sidebars." Really, though, it'll be the featured event when Rivers and his San Diego Chargers face Eli Manning and the struggling New York Giants on Sunday at the Meadowlands.

The Raiders lost by a score of 24 to 16, but the reality of the game is that it wasn't that close.

File this under "the glass is half-empty." Facing an Oakland Raiders team that could not get any semblance of pass defense against San Diego's aerial attack, the Chargers chose to run 30 times in 55 plays.

While fantasy owners often overlook their kicker, simply picking up a warm body, thata TMs a fairly big mistake.

Why haven't the Bears placed linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa on injured reserve yet? Is there a chance that he can possibly return late in the season? Will P. Rockford, Illinois There's no chance that Pisa Tinoisamoa will be able to play this season.

The embattled Chargers safeties yesterday played, well, the way they're supposed to.

Todd Haleys game management had belied his status as a rookie head coach until Sundays game against the Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium.

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Rivers was 18 for 30 for 268 yards and three TDs as the Chargers won their third in a row in Kansas City for the first time since 1981.

It was a rough night for Chargers fans, and fans of fashion in general. - Sean M. Haffey / Unon-Tribune In the beginning : They were the laughingstocks of the original American Football League.

" His job is to run the ball, not make the call. The call was for him not to run the ball.

The only two things keeping the San Diego Chargers out of last place in the AFC West are the Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs.

Well, that was a pretty neat trick. The Broncos come out in putrid, brown-and-yellow throwback uniforms, the refs donned orange-and-white throwback shirts -- and somehow it's the Chargers who end up looking ugly.

Anyone who has ever followed or invested in the late-model San Diego Chargers knows it might be too premature at six weeks into the NFL season to count this team out.

Royal returns punt, KO for TDs; Chargers lead 7:22 p.m. October 19, 2009 - Eddie Royal became the first player in Broncos history to return a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns in the same game, helping Denver to a short-lived lead over the San Diego Chargers on Monday night.

This leaves me with Marshawn Lynch and Jonathan Stewart as my starters scored me 4 points last week combined.