[sumo] And the snowball starts rollin'..

[Keri Sibley]

--- Charles Beauchamp <beauking1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I wonder where all of the crowd is that were
> yappping
> about how Asashoryu should accept the tradition or
> quit a few weeks back.  Rikishi abuse IS
> traditional. 
> There is a very thin line between hazing and abuse
> and
> most people do not really know where that line is. 
> Sumo is in trouble.

Could you expound upon how you believe sumo is in
trouble? A lineman for the Minnesota Vikings died at
practice a few years ago and the NFL is still doing
fine.


BTW Wasn't it at Tokitsukaze beya that Asashoryu hazed
Toyonoshima?


> 
> --- Moti <kintamayama at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/419645
> >  
> > Yamawake Oyakata (ex-Wakanoyama ) is being sued
> for
> > breaking a 30 year -old  ex-rikishi's arm. The guy
> > was the rikishi in charge of cooking at
> Musashigawa-
> > this was late June.
> > Yamawake received many complaints form shindeshi
> > that this rikishi was
> > being especially mean to them, pushing them around
> > and beating them.. "I wanted to show him what it
> > feels
> > like. I went too far", admitted Yamawake Oyakata.
> > "This was a case of
> > leadership going too far. That is totally
> > inexcusable", added
> > Musashigawa Oyakata, boss of the stable where it
> > happened. He was put
> > in an awkward position, as he is heading the
> > Tokitsukaze beya
> > investigation..
> > The rikishi retired immediately, and I am guessing
> > it's Koshinoyama.
> > I wonder how many of these we'll be having now
> that
> > the cat is out of the bag..
> > 
> > 
> > Kintamayama
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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