Re: RE: [sumo] RE: Sumo World rumors....

[<ntallyn@adelphia.net>]

Jack Edwards? Ugh.

Of course, sumo isn't the only thing he does not so well.


Nick

> 
> From: Jack Peacock <peacock@simconv.com>
> Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 02:58:16 EST
> To: "'sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu'"
> 	 <sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu>
> Subject: RE: [sumo] RE: Sumo World rumors....
> 
> << Ross and I have been writing back and forth, and I have no hard feelings 
> about his remark, nor should anyone else.  We go back many years -- he was 
> Glenn's replacement, and the first new face on the show. >>
> 
> When I first found sumo on C-Band satellite one evening back in 1991 it was
> Tom Quinn and Dave Wiggins who made it comprehensible.  Their commentary,
> along with Ross Mihara, Lynn Matsuoka and Doreen Simmons got me hooked on
> the sport and culture.  Where else could one find the focus on gyojis that
> Doreen offers, or the Wigginisms (did he come up with "Bentodashi" to
> describe Akebono's express train charge at tachiai?).
> 
> As for not being up to US standards for sports broadcasters...I should hope
> not.  I'm sure the guy on ESPN does his best (what's his name, Jack
> something?) but doesn't begin to compare to what the NHK crew has to offer.
> 
> 
> For that matter the strained humor and scripted happy talk among US sports
> announcers is a turn off for me.  Rush Limbaugh was the only fresh face in
> sports broadcasting to come along in quite a few years (since Dizzy Dean),
> and look what happened to him.  Sumo is a different kind of sport that calls
> for a different approach, something NHK does seem to understand, at least on
> the English speaker side.
>   Casinoshima (AKA Jack Peacock) 
> 
> from the island of casinos in the sea of desert
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