More people requested tickets during the pre-sale then are available, so there will be no public sale of tickets. People who submitted an application will find out by January 14th if they got tickets.

Apparently, according to Los Alamos researchers Soccer 'the most exciting sport' if you define exciting as how easy it is to predict the winner of any given match up.

The results showed that the "upset frequency" was highest for soccer followed by baseball, hockey, basketball and finally American football.

Now, its a bit of a stretch to say that the frequency of upsets is the biggest or best indicator of excitement. There are a number of other factors, including history of a sport, media hype, rituals and gatherign that center around a sport, and family history/tradition (ie watching baseball w/dear old dad) that can make a sport more exciting for one person or another.

There's also a not-insignificant cadre of sports fans who are going to be excited more by supporting a proven winner, such as the NY Yankees or Manchester United, than by upsets and unpredictable results.

Hat tip: Soccerphile World Cup Blog.

I was telling Sandy on our way back from lunch today that what I was hoping TiVo would announce an HDTV TiVo soon, and tonight I see that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas they announced HD TiVo Series 3

The tuner thing should be qualified though, because it will actually have 6(!) tuners. It will have 2 cable tuners, 2 ATSC tuners (for high def over the air) and 2 regular old NTSC tuners. But it will only be able to record two programs at once.

Full post at TiVo Lovers

Other interesting features:

• Built in ethernet port
• Externel SATA port - to add on capacity via external drives.

I didn't see an indication of pricing or availability.