I'm using this.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...t/screenshots/ Somehow I have it pulling rss feeds from my subdomains. Not sure if I did it stand alone or used an importer. It's late and I just finish a 14 hour shift so I'm brain dead. Anyways instead of putting the widget in the sidebar, I put it on the index page and resized it. It wasn't to hard to do. If you run into problems lmk and I'll dig deeper into wtf I actually did.