I read a very simple explanation of RSS that makes the most sense:

'Use RSS for others to borrow your content and for you to pull content from other sites.'

With this said, I was hoping people could elaborate further on RSS.

If I am browsing the net, say Yahoo Sports or NFL dot com, and I see a really cool sports story that I think the readers of my 'football blog' would like to read... can I press a button or do some sort of action that will automatically take that article and transfer it to my blog or somewhere specificed on my site and list it with all the content preserved and copyright info in tact so I don't have to make any edits?

What I have been doing is going onto websites and copying and pasting articles into my blogs from time to time (when I want to borrow content) and then I have to go through the process of giving credit to author, uploading the images attached, etc., and it takes me 5 minutes for 1 measily article, and I got sick of it.

I was trying to figure out with this RSS if there is a way to basically click an icon or link or something and have it set up to 'borrow' the content legally without any copyright issues and post it on my site or blog automatically without all the steps I have been doing. And then the other benefit I'm assuming from this (if it is something you can do/possible to do) is that by keeping it all in tact, I would think it would provide an external link back out and if RSS'd it will get a little/lot more exposure from other readers if it's RSS'd from a big-time site that has a lot of users/content? I THINK I am thinking right here haha but not sure if this makes sense, any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated-especially on 'exactly how to do this/the steps to do it' and if it's legal, and what I would need to add into my site or blog as far as gidget/widget/module/etc.

Thanks