Re: Itai on CNN

["Da Kine Sumo E-zine & Web site from Kawika" <dakinesumo@hotmail.com>]

Agreed, it takes two to yaocho.


From: Matt Waggoner <matt@waggoner.com>
>To: sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
>Subject: Re: Itai on CNN
>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 19:26:31 -0800
>
>Can't, technically, a rikishi only know about his own yaocho as well as the
>yaocho of whoever he's yaochoing with?  I mean if it is arranged, then
>presumably both parties know it.  Unless the loser loses on purpose and the
>winner thinks it was a fair bout, but there would seem to be little point
>in doing that.
>
>At 02:14 2/3/00 GMT, you wrote:
> >Bottom line, the only person who knows, really knows, whether yaocho was
> >committed or not, is the wrestler who does it, period.
> >
> >So Itai, the guy who just wants money and popularity, IMHO a dickhead, 
>can
> >'fess up to his own yaocho and that is it.
> >
> >Fixing the outcome of sporting events is not unique to sumo.  I think 
>this
> >just some sad person's effort to get attention and money.  I pity Itai.  
>I
> >wonder if his chanko-nabe restaurant is busy now or not cause of this 
>stuff.
> >
> >
> >>From: Stefan Gelow <f95-sge@nada.kth.se>
> >>To: sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
> >>Subject: Re: Itai on CNN
> >>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 02:45:36 +0100
> >>
> >>
> >> >What's especially sad is that, by the end of the press conference, it 
>was
> >> >clear that, while  he was telling the truth about ten years and more 
>ago
> >> >(when he himself was a major culprit), he had no solid information 
>about
> >> >what was happening today; only his own opinion.
> >>
> >>So, what you mean is that there is enough other circumstances besides 
>the
> >>Itai story, to confirm that he tells the complete truth about the time 
>when
> >>he was himself an active rikishi?
> >>
> >>Stefan Gelow
> >>
> >
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