Austin Java regular and local starlet (though we've yet to spot him in town) Andy Roddick has reportedly split from his current coach, former Olympic team assistant coach Dean Goldfine, switching over to big brother Johnny. What would otherwise be a normal business maneuver is somewhat clouded by the fact this makes it the fourth coach that Andy's had in the last three years. Some might point to his failure to win another Grand Slam......

In a former life this Austinist was a soccer player. Not of the gifted and talented variety, but more the tireless and enthusiastic kind. Since leaving the confines of public schools, we have also left behind organized sport. We played a couple season with Austin Women’s Soccer League but we have drifted toward more individual sports. We don’t know what that says about us, but we're fine with that. We were, however, nostalgic seeing......

The University of Texas at Austin's own robot soccer team, Austin Villa, has returned home from Atlanta where they placed third in the RoboCup US Open 2005. RoboCup is a relatively new project aimed at promoting research in AI, robotics, computational perception and related fields. The first US Open was held at Carnegie Mellon in 2003. During the competition, the Austin Villas (not to be confused with the Aston Villas from whence UT derived......