31.03.09

Here Come the Men in Black!

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Rugby, Uncategorized at 8:55 pm by liviu.tudor

I’ve just watched an amazing victory by Saracens this weekend where they took the game right from under London Wasps noses in the very last minutes of the game. After leading throughout the whole game 12-9 based on penalty kicks (well done, Glen Jackson! Wasps managed to score a try with about 3 minutes left from the game and thought they belted another victory… Only to find out that straight away — and I mean literally straight away — Saracens scored a try back with just a minute left of the game and won — woohoo!!!

Here’s some pictures from the second half, when The Men In Black make their entrance on the pitch:

And below, some scenes from the second half:

Last but not least, here’s some wonderful display of rugby enthusiasm from the kids playing tag rugby during half time – they deserved every bit of cheering they got at the end!

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13.03.09

Women Watch Too Much Cricket! :)

Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 5:13 pm by liviu.tudor

I was just having a look at Microsoft’s tool for demographics prediction (http://adlab.microsoft.com/Demographics-Prediction/) and started getting curious about what is the split in between men and women when watching sport and here’s some interesting data that this tool predicts (Sky peeps you’d better listen out if you want to target your audience properly!):

• football: that seems to be the closest as the split is 52% men to 48% women — so only a 4% difference (to be expected really if you consider that it’s on every channel and newspaper!) Hmmm phrase “footballer’s wife” springs to mind
• rugby — 57% to 43% for men; bet that used to be higher when Johnny Wilkinson was around
• the surprise though came with “cricket”!!! Women score 54% and men only 46%! So, all you single guys out there, if you want to pull, get yourselves down to a cricket game!

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