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

[Robert Hovestadt]

Even though it sounds like they allowed him back in it still sounds like:

"It's my way or the highway" is the Kyokai's stance regardless of whether
they
are actually right or wrong.

I am making no judgment of whether the punishment of Asashoryu is the right
one or not, as I do not posses the knowledge to do so. Plus it doesn't
matter
what I think I am not a member of the Kyokai.

Bob
"The Big Red Sumo Motor"

On 9/12/07, Lynn Matsuoka <artist at aloha.net> wrote:
>
> 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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