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| Attention to Akeni
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Carolyn Todd
SFM's newest addition to the writing staff takes an
in-depth look at akeni, their history and production techniques
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| Rikishi of Old
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Joe Kuroda
Joe Kuroda slides former yokozuna Minanogawa under his SFM microscope |
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| Eric Evaluates
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Eric Blair
Eric's wit scythes through the SML and makes clear his opinion of where the future lies for online sumo forums. |
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Eternal Banzuke Phase II
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Lon Howard
Stats, equations and mathematics all lead to a list of sumo's most prolific up and downers
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Heya Peek
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Mark Buckton
Mihogaseki, former home of Estonian sekitori Baruto is toured (and peeked at) by SFM's Editor-in-Chief
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Nagoya Basho Summary
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Lon Howard
Lon gives us his Nagoya basho summary, along with the henka sightings results
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Lower Division Rikishi
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Mikko Mattila
Mikko Mattila casts his watchful eye over lower division goings on in makushita and below.
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Aki Ones to Watch
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Carolyn Todd
Carolyn takes over the job of rikishi job performance prediction for SFM as she looks at those to keep an eye on come September |
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Kimarite Focus
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Mikko Mattila
Our man Mikko's latest trio of kimarite get thrown about the SFM literary dohyo |
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Amateur Angles
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Howard Gilbert
Howard returns with the second of his columns on the amateur sumo scene.
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Sumo Game
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| SFM's very own quiz comes in for a bit of self scrutiny by our secretive man of questions. We'll call him 'X'. |
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Sumo in Print
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Barbara Ann Klein
SFM’s Editor reviews “The Little Yokozuna”, a book for “young” (and older) adults
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| Kokugi Connections
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Todd Lambert
Check out Todd's bimonthly focus on 3 of the WWW's best sumo sites
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Fan Debate
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Facilitator - Lon Howard
Keri Sibley and Eduardo de Paz ponder the concept of ‘to pay or not to pay’ makushita salaries
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SFM Cartoons
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Stephen Thompson
Sit back and enjoy the offerings of one of sumo's premier artists |
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Lets Hear From You
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| What was it that made you a sumo fan? SFM’s own Todd Lambert details his path into sumofandom
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| Sumo Quiz |
The Quizmaster
Answer the Qs and win yourself next basho’s banzuke. |
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SFM Quiz – old fashioned
perhaps, but the best
things always are.
by SFM Quizmaster
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As
the days pass, it is necessary (and wise) to have a quick look every
now and then so you don’t get hit with all fifteen questions at the
same time come senshuraku, but for those caught up in life, all of the
questions do remain on the page after having been posted, so there are
no problems with not actually checking in every day.
Answers must be handed in by the Tuesday or Wednesday after the basho
has ended (times and dates are indicated on the main page) and reults
will usually be posted on the Sumo Fan Magazine site as well as Sumo
Forum in the days following that.
That truly is it – it is old fashioned perhaps but as the sub-title
says - the best things always are. Please have a go – all the answers
are out there somewhere, or the people that know the answers are and
you never know – a banzuke, printed tegata or both could be winging its
way to you in no time
Finally, a note on myself as I sometimes feel like the forgotten SFMer
given my lack of recognition over on the right side of the top page -
as I hold a position with a security clearance higher than GWB should
be permitted to hold, only two staff at SFM know my true identity and
for reasons intended to avoid compromise of such and subsequent
attempts on their life, that’s where I end. Wasn’t that short?
SFM Quizmaster
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Summer
doldrums are here, and with that phenomenon, some of our contributors
are away on vacation, or, like myself, just so lethargic that the
furthest thing from one’s mind is the task of meeting a deadline.
However, since regular staff is just that – REGULAR staff, we have
delegated the Games column this issue to the SFM Quizmaster, and with
his/her own description of our bimonthly game, I will put this column
on hiatus for a bit.
If you are a gamesmaster, though, and want SFM to “publicize” your
online sumo game through this column, give me a holler at
editor@sumofanmag.com. You will have my immediate attention.
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The Sumo Fan Magazine Quiz is simple. It poses a number of questions
and the person who answers the most correctly wins a prize.
As much as that is where I’d like to end it and return to my life of
secrecy, my editor wouldn’t be happy with a 23-word summary, so I
suppose I’d better go a bit deeper.
The quiz questions originate in the deepest recesses of my brain. “What’s that, ed., not so deep? OK, I’ll try again!”
Every day of a given basho, the SFM homepage displays a different
question. Numbering fifteen in all (one being released automatically
each day of the basho), the questions asked are sometimes themed, but
more often than not are a mixed bag of current (sumo) affairs,
historical type conundrums and little-known facts, with a few facts and
figures thrown in for good measure.
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Unlike
many games that simply rely on potluck and random guessing, the SFM
quiz is designed to accommodate those who have a level of sumo
knowledge just that little bit higher than the norm; the men or women
about town for whom sumo is a thing of beauty and a never-ending avenue
of education.
In reality though, all can play and you don’t have to have been a fan
since birth to be able to answer most of the questions. Every answer is
in print somewhere – be it the old fashioned book sources many of you
have, or from online sites put together over the past few years – by
many who used the books to develop their interest in the first place,
or from previous issues of our own SFM..
All questions are prepared, written up and double checked by the Nihon
Sumo Kyokai via my Editor-in-Chief, Mark Buckton – thanks Mark.
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