[sumo] News and Mr. Buckton's most recent JT column

[smk1 at columbia.edu]

Quoting Dale Carlson <drc at oz.net>:

> >From what I've heard, Mr. Buckton devotes much of his time to
> getting
> the credentials/ visas of others revoked. Not a person worth
> reading.
>
> Dale


Well, that certainly opens up an unfortunate can of worms that we
can revisit after the basho.  He did have a respectful off-list
reply to my critical comments about his first Japan Times article. 
Actions like the Kyokai's, and what you say about Mr. Buckton often
have the effect of coming back to bite them in the tooshie.  This
could make for an interesting debate here, perhaps the Kyokai is
not the only entity that should embrace reform.

Back to the bashooooooo!  And, how in heaven's name does yours truly
find himself in the unworthy position of leading both the hoshitori
and rotosumo games after all of 3 days of this particular
tournament?  Are the sumo gods smiling from above for some
reason??? :)

Sukubidubidu