[sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer

[Kuramarujo]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 07:30 +0900, Joe Petrow wrote:

> Well, I believe that the case of former yokozuna Maedayama.  He
> dropped out of a tournament claiming illness, but was later found at a
> Japanese baseball game.  He was forced to retire.
> 
> Then of course, there was former yokozuna Futahaguro.  That wasn't
> even done in public, yet he was forced to resign because he
> disrespected his oyakata's wife. 

	Thank you for that, Peterao-san.  There's just SO much history and
information about Sumo it feels like I'll never catch up.  This is where
learning by direct neural implant[1] would be really handy.

Kuramarujo

[1] See "Count Zero" & "Mona Lisa Overdrive" by William Gibson and "Snow
Crash" by Neal Stephenson.  Or, for the visually stimulated, the first
"Matrix" movie ("I know Kung Fu")

-- 
Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer
http://www.webtrek.com/joe/sumo