A friend of mine from our jogging group just finished "Born to Run". He now starts every sentence with, "You know the Tarahumara Indians..." :)
He's also showed up to run for the past few weeks in sandals!
Many years ago (just as the web was taking off) I was the database guy for a local soccer association. I always liked the idea of abstracting all that out to a general purpose application but never acted on it. Good luck!