Always Bet On Red

We love it when academics get bored. According to a couple of "British anthropologists," teams and athletes that wear the color red are more likely to be successful. "Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning," says one of the yawning grad students. The "scientists" looked at four sports in the 2004 Olympics; this makes them the only ones.

Red: The Winning Color In Sports [All Headline News]