[sumo] [Spoiler] Rikishi Talk Day 3 Aki Basho 2007 (plus Kyokai criticism rearing , , , )

[Doreen Simmons]

Mr. Sugiyama is a highly respected retired journalist whose face can 
regularly be seen in the last of the press seats on the east side 
nearest to the hanamichi. Revoking his press card is truly awful -- and 
the first thing I have seen in this mess that is less than defensible.

I very much doubt whether Mark Buckton's  column in the Japan Times 
Online would entitle him to a press pass. When he and Barbara and 
others approached the Kyokai to get the online sumo fan magazine 
included in the press corps, the results were prdictable.

I do wonder, however, if Clyde Newton still gets press IDs for his Sumo 
World writers -- this was a special privilege originally granted to 
Andy Adams. This could be the reason why he still produces a ghost of a 
magazine that seems to be on sale only at the Kokugikan bookstall.

Doreen, who just missed maezumo through writing this.

On 2007/09/12, at 4:32, Scott Kahn wrote:

> Joe,
>
> Thank you for this continuing in-basho contribution.  Our personal 
> opinions on the Asashoryu issue aside, this is indeed a fascinating 
> turn of events.
>
> Do you know what Mr. Sugiyama's criticism of the Kyokai entailed?  Has 
> he been in hot water with the Kyokai before?  I wonder whether this 
> threat of revoking press passes may have influenced Mr. Buckton's 
> Japan Times contributions...  I guess my personal application for a 
> press pass "got lost in the mail"!

You are joking, of course?
>
> Sukubidubidu
>
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Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp