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Chargers, sans stars, beat Niners 26-7

Source: Associated Press By Bernie Wilson SAN DIEGO — With all their offensive stars watching from the sideline, the San Diego Chargers closed the exhibition season with a 26-7 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Friday night. Chargers inside linebacker Kevin Burnett, an offseason free-agent acquisition, sustained a stinger less than five minutes into [...]

BoltTalk Podcast #155 – 09/03/09

This week on BoltTalk, Ray and Loren review the Chargers 24-27 preseason loss to Atlanta. Plus we’ll take a look at the final preseason game versus the 49ers. We have the latest roster moves and news from around the NFL. Show Links Chargers starters roll in 27-24 loss to Atlanta. Who to watch 49ers @ [...]

Chargers Team Report – 09/03/09

Source: Yahoo Sports The Chargers are a savvy team to pick for the Super Bowl. Just like last year. And the year before. None of those seasons ended at the NFL’s biggest game but maybe, just maybe, this year is different. What is different is that the players, for the most part, are leaving that [...]

Tomlinson won’t play in Bolts’ exhibition finale

Source: Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP)—San Diego Chargers coach Norv Turner confirmed what most people already guessed, that LaDainian Tomlinson will not play in Friday night’s exhibition finale against San Francisco. Tomlinson started the first two exhibitions, bucking a tradition of having him sit out the entire preseason slate in order to stay healthy. He [...]

49ers-Chargers exhibition to be blacked out

Source: Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP)—The San Diego Chargers say their exhibition finale against the San Francisco 49ers on Friday night will be blacked out on local TV. The game wasn’t close to being a sellout more than 72 hours prior to kickoff, with approximately 7,000 general-admission tickets remaining Tuesday. The Chargers’ exhibition opener against [...]

Chargers starters roll in 27-24 loss to Falcons

Source: Associated Press By Charles Odum ATLANTA — San Diego’s Philip Rivers led touchdown drives in two of his three possessions in his first game since signing a contract extension, before the Atlanta Falcons’ backups rallied to beat the Chargers 27-24 in an exhibition game Saturday night. The Chargers led 21-10 as the first-team offense [...]

Upon further review; Chargers @ Falcons

By Curtis Egan BoltTalk Staff Writer The Chargers went to Hotlanta for their third preseason game. Now of all the preseason games this one has less of the ‘kissing your sister’ feel, because typically this is the game that the starters play the most. Chargers great from the past Dan Fouts was in the booth [...]