I played soccer today. Keeper against a group of various sexes (OK, two is really all there technically are, right?) most of whom have been playing since they were babes in arms. I made a few good saves, a few understandable misses, and a few terrible plays.
I played on a ‘real’ team for a total [...]
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4 Aug
Still I Play
19 Mar
Young Men and Younger Men
I like sports. I wish I had enough time and less enough conscience to be a bit more of a fanatic, but I manage to be a fairly knowledgeable fan.
So though I cannot name the starting roster for almost any constantly evolving, revolving team (except for the women’s National soccer team), I will recognize the [...]
21 Nov
Was It Worth It
Soccer is over. Over and done. It hasn’t quuuuuite hit me fully yet, because it was only a few days ago we off-loaded the bus. So we could be having a few off days to unkink. Or we could be between seasons, as I’ve been three times. Or it could all be just a waking [...]
18 Nov
Tie Your Shoes and Gird Your Mind
Last Tuesday we had our last Wisconsin practice. It was bitterly cold, and it started to sleet/hail partway through. As Barb was hurt, keeper practice was me and the three boys. After warmups we got to face the guys in a face-paced shooting drill, which should really be some sort of corporal punishment for severely [...]
11 Nov
Come On Eileen . . .
We’re headed to sunny Florida in a few hours. Nothing like leaving the frozen tundra for the sunny fields.
Both soccer teams will jumble into a tour bus, and 24ish hours after we leave we will pull into a hotel parking lot, have a few hours to recover, then start practicing and trying to work out [...]
27 Oct
It’s Not Really About Beckham
Sure Bend It Like Beckham probably drew hordes of screaming, salivating girls simply because of the Beckham.
Really, can you blame them?
But the movie isn’t about Beckham, as evidenced by the fact that he makes an appearance only in posters and a televised soccer game. (Even the ‘Becks Sighting’ at the end is done by a [...]
23 Oct
Bad Play
Apparently Rick Reilly offered at least Obama and McCain a chance to be his fantasy partner for a week (he said ‘each candidate’ but I’m not sure if he was counting any third parties or not. C’mon Reilly, clarity in writing!*)
Only Obama agreed, and they played, and then Reilly wrote a column about it. As [...]
19 Oct
Snapshots of Feelings
Allow me for a few moments to give you a snapshot of just a few seconds worth of my day, recounted in the last post.
Before our (too early) game on Saturday, the team all stood together for the national anthem. Sure I was exhausted, but after an hour of warm-ups my blood was racing and I was wide [...]
18 Oct
My Week(end)
Last night, we got done with practice and it started to sprinkle. The heavens looked dark, so I grabbed my gear, left my shinguards and cleats on and jumped aboard my bike to beat the storm home. It was tough going through the grass, but once I got to pavement . . . thwub thwub [...]
3 Oct
Mixed Emotions
Yesterday was an interesting day. This post is really in two parts – a recounting of the basic actions of my day, and a musing on what I felt/thought during such. If you don’t like soccer or ponderings . . . well, outta luck you are.
I worked all day until 4, then changed, grabbed ‘dinner’ [...]
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