Physicists bash US World Cup team

You know it's bad when physicists start talking smack about a sporting team...

Marti points to a book called "Great Mambo Chicken," which tells of a scientific experiment in which a researcher put several chickens in a centrifuge and raised them in twice-normal gravity for months at a time. When they emerged, the chickens were stronger and had larger bones and muscles, and greater endurance. In other words, they were superchickens..."If only," Chen sighed, "we had done that to the U.S. soccer team."