[sumo] Dreadful Commercialism of Sumo

[Jim Bitgood]

No profile in this picture. Unless you mean the silhouette of the 
mage from directly behind it. It's a great shot of
Konishiki's "game face" though.

At 19:09 1/5/2008, you wrote:
>If it's the same one I recall, it was a classic Konishiki v. Mainoumi photo,
>taken from behind Mainoumi but with enough of his profile to permit
>identification, which gave me the opportunity to tell my acquaintances about
>their matches.  They were very impressed by my display of knowledge, but I
>remain invisible to teenage girls.
>
>On 1/5/08, Jim Bitgood <Jimbit2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone else seen the inside back cover of the December 07 issue
> > of "Runners World"?
> > There is a great full page picture of Konishiki taken from behind his
> > opponent just before tachi-ai. It's an ad for Hyundai, curiously
> > enough. I assume that Konishiki got paid for the use of his image.
> > Wonder if the other guy got paid for image of the back of his mage???
> > It would be a really fantastic picture if it didn't have the
> > advertising copy printed on it.

         Jim
         "Chitose-Taikai"