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Soccer at The Domain

While looking for something in Google Maps (a heliport on top of my building, if you must know) I noticed that as of the time of this writing, the satellite imagery does not yet have the new and fancy The Domain shopping center accross the street.
Instead, right where Starbucks and the Apple Store now stand, [...]

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NI Eagles Fall 2007

Yesterday marked my triumphant return to the soccer fields to play after long time rival Juventus (not the actual Italian team). The first ball I touched after almost three months of injury was a perfect pass to the striker for an open shot on goal. Too bad the striker played for the other team.
Still, [...]

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Broken collarbone update

It’s been now a week since I had that little accident. I can now mostly get dressed, eat, and shower by myself. I can now type with one hand. Vicodin is my new best friend. Thanks to everyone who’s helped me out, called or visited. Especially my parents who came over to help their crippled [...]

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Crash Landing

Since it had been almost a year since my magical memory erasing blow to the head and almost three years since the dislocated toe incident, I decided to try something new.
Yesterday ten minutes into the last NI Eagles game of the season, when fighting for a ball, I got tripped over and landed badly on [...]

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NI Eagles Fall 2006

Oh, the joys of getting our asses kicked in Division 1 of the Austin City League… Not every time, but way more than in the lower divisions. Click on the photo to zoom in or check out the NI Eagles Official Website.

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NI Eagles Summer 2006

We’ve got a pretty good team this season. Visit the Official Website. Click on the photo to see a larger version in flickr.

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NI-Eagles Soccer Team - April, 2006

We didn’t take a photo of the team during the Fall Division 1 season of the Austin City League. I’m partially to blame for that.
In any case, we played a friendly match today, a few weeks before the summer season starts, against a team from some chinese church (I’ll try to find more details about [...]

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Survival tip

Emergency landing

Originally uploaded by kirsch.

When falling down, use your hands and not your head to break the fall.
This is me after our last soccer game. As you can see, I had sort of a rough landing. This picture was taken about 1 hour after the event.
Next time, I’ll do my best efforts to land on [...]

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NI Eagles start Division 1 with a victory

We had our first game today in the summer Austin City League. As readers of this blog know, NI Eagles just moved to Division 1. In summer, Division 1 and Premier are combined.We played Caledonians, a Premier division team and won 3-2 with a ‘89 goal by Papa Faye. The temperature was about 35 degrees [...]

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Exciting end of season

It’s been a while since I posted anything about the NI Eagles, Austin’s top soccer team (approximately).
We are one game away from the end of the Spring 2005 season. We are now in Division 2, having moved up all the way from Division 5 (which is pretty good considering that we are largely the same [...]

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