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Sumo Souvenirs |
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Mark Buckton
Second of a two parter on sumo souvenirs - some hints on avoiding the fluff.
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Konishiki |
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Chris Gould
Takamiyama's 60s / 70s successes notwithstanding Konishiki was sumo's
first full-on mover and shaker from lands afar leaving Chris G to take
an in-depth look at the ripples the big guy left behind when exiting
the sumo pool.
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Rikishi of Old |
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Joe Kuroda
Joe Kuroda's looks back at the life and times of former yokozuna Shiranui.
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Eric Evaluates |
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Eric Blair
Eric IDs the true winners of the henkafest that was the Haru Basho senshuraku.
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Rikishi Diary |
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Mark Kent
Mark Kent - English pro-wrestler and amateur heavyweight sumotori -
takes his training a step further on his road to European and World
sumo glory.
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Heya Peek |
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Mark Buckton
Oitekaze Beya just to the north of Tokyo and not far from the abode of SFM's Ed-i-C falls under the microscope.
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SFM Interview |
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Carolyn Todd
Carolyn interviews Riho Rannikmaa during his recent trip to Osaka -
head of all things sumo in Estonia, friend and mentor of Baruto, this
is a man with something to announce.
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Sumo à la LA |
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Alisdair Davey
SFM's man in the shadows reports on his recent jaunt in LA, as guest of
the Californian Sumo Association and SFM reporter at large.
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Photo Bonanzas |
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Hot on the heels of the recent Ise bonanza - Haru up close and very very personal - some of our best pics to date.
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Haru Basho Summary |
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Lon Howard
Lon wraps the Haru Basho and chucks in a few bits on the henka issues the top dogs are suffering from at present.
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Sumo Menko |
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Ryan Laughton
Sumo cards of old brought to life once again by expert collector Ryan
Laughton. None of your BBM offerings here - Pt II of III.
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Natsu Ones To Watch |
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Carolyn Todd
Carolyn ponders the ones to watch come May and Natsu when sumo comes home to Tokyo.
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Kimarite Focus |
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Mikko Mattila
Mikko's latest look at sumo's kimarite offers unequalled analysis and in depth explanations.
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Amateur Angles |
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Howard Gilbert
On your marks, get set, go - Howard Gilbert walks us through the months ahead on the amateur calendar.
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Kokugi Konnections |
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Todd Lambert
Click on Todd's latest selection of the best sumo sites the WWW has to offer.
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Fan Debate |
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Facilitator - Carolyn Todd
Should it or shouldn't it? Honbasho go on the overseas road that is.
See what SFM's Chris Gould and James Hawkins have to say.
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SFM Cartoons |
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Benny Loh & Stephen Thompson
In this issue's cartoon bonanza, sit back and sample ST's latest artistic offerings.
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Sumo Odds & Ends |
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SFM's interactive elements - as always includes Henka Sightings, Elevator Rikishi and Eternal Banzuke!
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Let's Hear From You |
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What was it that made you a sumo fan - A. S. - the face in the crowd
reveals almost all - to see everything you'll have to close your eyes.
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Readers' Letters |
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See what our readers had to say since we last hit your screens.
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Sumo Quiz |
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The Quizmaster
Answer the Qs and win yourself a genuine banzuke.
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rate so far in the study, and boosted the overall win rate to 70% (129
wins in 185 henka bouts). With only 11 basho studied so far, if
someone is targeted for henka more than once in a basho, it can send
him up aways in the ranking of henka targets, and that happened with
Dejima this time. He was actually 11th after the Hatsu basho but
since he was the only rikishi targeted more than once (twice) in Haru,
he jumped up to 4th place on the list. I’m sure I’m not alone in
wondering why he wasn’t higher than 11th before, but it’ll take 25 or
30 basho for things to fall into place (you know – the old “they are
who we thought they were” logic).
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There are two strange statistics regarding Tosanoumi.
The first is that he’s only 10th on the list, and the real doozie is
that he’s only lost one of the six bouts he was targeted in.
Except for Dejima at 63%, everyone else on the top ten list has a
loss percentage of over 70%, with Roho’s perfect 100% (i.e., lost every
bout he was targeted in: 7 for 7) still intact, as he was not targeted
in Haru. As with the list of henka perpetrators, the data for the
targets are based only on those matches voted as actual henka.
Here is the overall top ten list of henka targets, ranked in order of
the percentage of their total bouts
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in which they were a henka target:
Hokutoriki
Miyabiyama
Kasugao
Dejima
Roho
Iwakiyama
Kotooshu
Kokkai
Kotoshogiku
Tosanoumi
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8.33
6.37
5.33
4.85
4.46
4.35
4.24
4.24
4.24
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There isn’t a lot more to report this time, since this is not a
detailed account. There’ll be one of those in June. Enjoy
the spring!
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