More red shirts on Sunday?

A quick heads-up from my "rip and report" file. (I routinely rip pages of interesting pieces from magazines, thinking I'll keep them somewhere nearby until I decide what to do with them.)

In the September 2005 Atlantic Monthly, I came across the following:

"In many animal species red coloration in males - a sign of high testosterone levels - is associated with fitness and dominance... The color may also be linked to prowess in human athletes. Two English academics examined four 'combat sports' (boxing tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling, and freestyle wrestling) in the 2004 Summer Olympics; participants in these events were randomly assigned either blue or red attire. The athletes in red won 55 percent of all the competitions - and when contests in which the competitors were deemed unevenly matched were eliminated from the pool, more than 60 percent of the winners were found to have been wearing red... The researchers speculate that because red is associated with anger and violence, competitors may be sub-consciously intimidated by opponents dressed in it - and that wearing red may boost an athlete's testosterone levels and thereby improve his performance."

Who'll win this match? And are we likely to see Tiger's challengers duplicating his preference for a red shirt on Sunday?