Sumo News - soc.culture.japan #38889

[osumo3@native.usc.edu (Luigi Manna)]

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|Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 12:14:40 PST
|From: Richard Webb <webb@phys1.physics.wsu.edu>
|Subject: Sumo News - soc.culture.japan #38889
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|In article <2dmcvj$5g5@samba.oit.unc.edu>, David.Riley@launchpad.unc.edu (David Allen Riley) writes:
||> A couple of items to keep you all interested:
||> 
||> 1) Takanohana's liver condition worsened during the Kyushu Basho,
||> and he spent some time in the hospital afterward.  Doctors are
||> going to keep a close eye on him for a while.  Hopefully, he will
||> be ok for the Hatsu Basho coming soon.
||> 
||> 2) Konishi's Japanese citizenship application may be approved this
||> month, according to insiders at the Justice Ministry.  That's very
||> quick, as he just submitted them 10 months ago.  As soon as he gets
||> the good word, he's retiring from the rikishi life.  He already 
||> bought the rights to be an oyakata, so all he needs is official
||> status as a Nihonjin to open his stable.  Even though he hasn't
||> done very well this year, I'll be sad to see him leave, as he 
||> provided some fun in the sport.  Good luck to him!
||> 
||> 3) Oh, the girls that follow sumo!  First, there was Rie-chan,
||> the would-be wife of Takanohana, showing the world her charms.
||> Now we find out that Akebono's new sweety had a not-so-savory
||> prior occupation.  Using other names, Noriko Usui made a 
||> number of hard-core porno flicks.  It wasn't made clear on the
||> TV as to when these films were done, but it certainly ends
||> any hopes of her staying around with the Yokozuna.   His
||> oyakata, Azumazeki, had squelched any quick wedding anyhow, 
||> saying Akebono should wait until he's at least 27.  Well,
||> I hope you were using protection, Chad!
||> 
||> Mata nee....
||> 
||> David    [wishing he had a feed here at home!]
||> riley@hachi.hi-tech.ac.jp   
||> 
||> 
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||>      North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
||>         Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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