June 20, 2006
Black people hear better
Black people hear better - more acutely - than white people and latinos - according to this study.
Posted by Mark at 9:39 AM | Comments (0)
June 19, 2006
World Cup "not very exciting"
Jeez! This world cup ... there's something missing, right?
It's not just the maundering voice of Mark Lawrenson, telling you that the losing team could improve their defending, or the epically moronic Mick McCarthy (come back Roy Keane, all is forgiven) ... it's the games themselves.
They just really haven't been, well, very exciting really, have they?
Is this the impact of all the good players in the world leaving South America and Africa and Asia to come to Europe and play for serious money in the Champions' League? (So that all the variety of footballing approaches disappears, everyone learns to play the "European" way, even Togo) Is it the impact of a much bigger competition, with a larger quantity of frankly no-hope sides? Is it that I am forgetting the duff games of yesteryear?
I don't know, but the fact remains, one Argentinian wonder-goal aside, this World Cup has been pretty thin stuff.
Posted by Mark at 6:01 PM | Comments (0)