To: Jack Peacock <peacock@simconv.com>,
"'sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu'"
<sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: RE: [sumo] RE: Sumo World rumors....
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:10:00 -0500
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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>
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