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Philippines v India rugby final, Live(ish)

Via Twitter, here. Via the PRFU Facebook page, here.

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Via the traveling media bureau, Delhi, India to Columbus, Ohio to Manila.

Columbus (CLB): Philippines 3, India 0. Penalty kick.
Manila (MNL): Great, I thought my relay would be distraught. (Cal def Harvard 42-0 in the US collegiate sevens. Then Harvard lost all its other matches. Bageled.)
CLB: Never distraught. Hope springs eternal!

CLB: India 7, Phils 3
MNL: At Roland Garros, Schiavone leads Stosur 6-4, 2-4.
CLB: Phils 9, India 7
MNL: All Oliver Saunders points, should we clone him?
CLB: Phils 12, India 7. Do you have a source or do you want me to relay info?
MNL: (Ang taray ng correspondent.) No, please continue!
CLB: Phils 15, India 7
MNL: In Paris, the second set of the women’s final goes into a tiebreak.
CLB: Phils 22, India 7. Halftime.
MNL: And Francesca Schiavone wins the French Open ladies singles!

Second half.
CLB: Philippines 27, India 7. . .Pulling ahead!
MNL: Dammit they ARE good. Now I have to read the rulebook.
CLB: Hahaha looks like we have a winning team!

CLB: Phils 34, India 7

Note that this is the Indian team that destroyed China 90-something-nil. And they’re playing at home. In 40-degree weather.

CLB: Phils 34, India 12

Manila, 5 June 2010, 2349 hrs. The Philippines is the Asian 5 Nations Division 2 Champion!

We’ve won! Yes, first person plural!

Now to feed the cats. Do repost this announcement in your blogs and Facebook pages. Thank you!

Apropos of nothing, here’s the snobbiest message of the day, from a friend who gave me his ticket to the Al Gore talk.

The fourth entry in the Roger-Rafa playing attire design contest reminds me of childhood field trips to Nayong Pilipino.

Designer: Maan

Designer’s statement: “This is a Filipino culture-inspired tennis attire for Rafa and Roger. Both players are wearing materials made of Philippine textiles: piña cloth, tubaw head wrap, and embroidered fabric. Notice the shell accessories and the hand and arm cuffs.”

In the women’s final today, Samantha Stosur meets Francesca Schiavone in what may be the quietest (lowest-decibel) women’s match in recent memory.

The men’s final at Roland Garros tomorrow will be contested by Rafael Nadal and Robin Soderling. Rafa was asked what kind of weather he would like for the final. He replied, “Always sun. Because sun is energy. Everything is nicer with the sun. My balls are getting more topspin.”

We requested photographs of the national rugby team players. Unfortunately the photos are unlabeled.

So you’ve got homework. Please go to this gallery, in which individual players are identified, and using the face recognition software in your head, compare them with these faces. Then identify the guys in each of these photographs. Thank you!

Bonus: The sender of the Best Caption gets a copy of A Sportsman’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev a signed copy of The Flip Reader (The greatest hits anthology from Flip: The Official Guide to World Domination).

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From the camera of Josh Sutcliffe, who is in some of these photos but we don’t know which.

The A5N Division 2 Championship final between the Philippines and India will be played tonight at 1930 New Delhi time, 2200 in Manila.

At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor and architect—was also an anatomist, a secret he concealed by destroying almost all of his anatomical sketches and notes. Now, 500 years after he drew them, his hidden anatomical illustrations have been found—painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, cleverly concealed from the eyes of Pope Julius II and countless religious worshipers, historians, and art lovers for centuries—inside the body of God.

Read Michelangelo’s secret message in the Sistine Chapel: A juxtaposition of God and the human brain by R. Douglas Fields in the Scientific American guest blog.

Typography by Mico Toledo at Music Philosophy, your weekly dose of song quotes.

My Smiths quote T-shirt would say “Now I know how Joan of Arc felt”.