Credit: Photo by Patrick Meredith for the Austin Aztex FC

b>The Austin Aztex kick off their inaugural season of pro soccer with a bang-bang-bang of three games in eight days, starting this Saturday, April 18, with the Minnesota Thunder, and continuing with the defending USL First Division champion Vancouver Whitecaps on Tuesday, April 21, and fellow USL-1 newcomers Cleveland City Stars next Saturday, April 25. All three games are at 7:30pm at the Aztex home stadium, Nelson Field, off Berkman, just north of U.S. 290. See the April 17 Sports feature “Chapter One: A Team Is Born” for more.

England kept up its undefeated streak in the European Champions League: For the second year in a row, three of the four semifinalists are English teams (Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U, and interloper Barcelona), and for the second year in a row, no English club has lost an ECL knockout tie – except to another English club.

This article appears in April 10 • 2009.

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