Simple RSS Reader for Existing RSS Feeds

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Hi, I am trying to create a simple RSS Reader to display on the front page of a website I’m working on. I took a look at the Kirupa News Ticker Tutorial but couldn’t get it working the way I wanted (can’t figure out a way to load each external RSS feed). What I have is seperate RSS feeds from The Boston Herald:

http://sports.bostonherald.com/sports.bg

I wanted to get the top story (or top 2 stories) from the Celtics, Red Sox, Patriots, and Bruins sections, each of which has their own RSS feed. I’m just unsure about how to extract the top 2 storied from each, especially since they each have their own seperate RSS feeds. Is this possible to do, and can it be done in such a way that the RSS feeds will automatically update whenever the Boston Herald updates their feeds?

Here’s an example of how the rss feed is set up for the Red Sox section:

<item>
      <title>Play snowball! Home runs drop with the temperature</title>
      <link>http://redsox.bostonherald.com/otherMLB/view.bg?articleid=193686</link>
      <description>Along with balls, strikes and outs, baseball players are tracking different statistics these days: snowfall amounts and wind chill factors.
Major League Baseball may be forced to tinker with its schedule...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:55:26 -0400</pubDate>
      <guid>http://redsox.bostonherald.com/otherMLB/view.bg?articleid=193686</guid>
    </item>

    <item>
      <title>AL: Jays&#039; Halladay ends hex: Ace wins 1st since August</title>
      <link>http://redsox.bostonherald.com/otherMLB/view.bg?articleid=193676</link>
      <description>Roy Halladay has put last season&#039;s rough finish behind him.
Halladay won for the first time since last August and Reed Johnson hit a three-run homer to lead the Toronto Blue Jays past the Tampa...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:31:47 -0400</pubDate>
      <guid>http://redsox.bostonherald.com/otherMLB/view.bg?articleid=193676</guid>
    </item>