Teams in Red Win More

Look at this article.. heh GOO ROCKETS!!! hey no wonder we won more in our RETRO jerseys and how we won two championships during the hakeem years.. right when Barkley came we cahnged to the ugly blue pinstripe uniforms..

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/irresistible/4504402/detail.html

Athletes In Red Win, Score More, Study Says

POSTED: 1:19 pm PDT May 18, 2005

Encouraging news for the Boston Red Sox, the Detroit Red Wings and even Alabama's Crimson Tide.

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A new sports study has found that athletes who wear red are "consistently" more likely to win.

British anthropologists made the findings after surveying four sports at last year's Athens Summer Olympic Games. There, they analyzed athletes in four individual events: boxing, tae kwan do and two styles of wrestling.

In the events, competitors were randomly given red or blue protective gear. Athletes wearing red gear won more often in 16 of 21 rounds of competition in all four events.

After making a brief study of an international soccer tourney, they say the red effect also might come into play in team sports.

At the Euro 2004 soccer tournament, they found that five teams scored more goals and won more often when they wore shirts that were predominantly red, as opposed to blue or white jerseys.

Scientists don't exactly know why wearing red might give athletes an edge. But the color delivers implicit messages of vigor and danger.

The findings are published in Wednesday's issue of the journal Nature.