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

[Lynn Matsuoka]

And so it goes...
Now let's wait for Asashoryu to be back in HIS seat   ( oki buton) come
January.


On 9/12/07 2:56 AM, "murray johnson" <murrayj at tkg.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> Mr. Sugiyama back in his seat today........
 





  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On Behalf
> Of Doreen Simmons
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2007 8:35 AM
> To: Sumo Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [sumo] [Spoiler] Rikishi Talk Day 3 Aki Basho 2007 (plus
> Kyokaicriticism rearing , , , )
> 
> 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
>> 
>>> 
> Doreen Simmons
>   jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp
> 
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