[sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer

[Kuramarujo]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:41 +0900, Joe Petrow wrote:

> Asashoryu broke two of the biggest taboos in not sumo, but in Japanese
> society.   You don't disrespect your patrons...but if you do, 
> you certainly don't do it in public.

	It seems to me it's closer to disrespecting the financial gain of those
in power.  What he did was not right.  It was, as you said, incredibly
stupid.  But tell me, have there been other cases where similar
punishment was imposed?  If so, what were the circumstances? 

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Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer
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