[sumo] Classic sumo

[Robert Hovestadt]

I was absolutely thrilled to find this sumo marathon on and watched as much
of it as i could.  I didn't care that it was the 1997 bashos, it was sumo on
TV.

My first exposure to sumo would have been on ABC's Wide World of Sports when
they would show matches on their Saturday show.  Unfortuantely for me when
Wide World of Sports went awy so did my exposure to Sumo.  It didn't return
until I found you nice folks in the online Sumo world in 2000 or 2001 I
believe it was.  I live in household that has DirectTV and unfortunately
TVJapan did not receive enough votes to be added when they let the
subscribers decide on a new channel so I do not get to see any sumo except
when it shows up on ESPN2.

Hopes that TVJapan maybe added to DirectTV some time soon.