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I wish them well then. It would be great if they expand their coverage but we all want a lot of things.

Something tells me none of the promotions they are covering know they are using their footage. Shhhhh...no one tell the NSK...

A lot of their YouTube videos have less hits than this thread has already gotten.

Apparently they have a Fubo, Roku, and YouTube channel. They cover stuff like Invicta, BKFC, etc. They do like 8 bouts per day of the honbasho. Commentators aren't awful. I think I'd like them more if I didn't follow sumo closely.

Right now, Sunday April 20th, Amazon Prime is showing day 5 of the March 2025 basho highlights by Swerve Combat. Anyone know about this? Looks like the "official" feed with the NSK logo in the corner with sound effects from Hiro's Sumo Primetime. Am I just late to the party?

Not a doctor and really none of my business but I highly doubt it was "vulvar." I hope they steam-clean everything. This stuff is hard to kill once it's gnawing away on someone. Sad, I never considered this as a risk for rikishi but they get a lot of stuff rubbed into a lot of wounds.

I was thinking more about the public announcement and wasn't really clear about it. That would require some good will from the kyokai since they would essentially be handing the rikishi four months pay for nothing but it's all hypothetical anyway.

Maybe? I suppose there could be a situation where a rikishi knows he's going to retire but for whatever reason doesn't immediately do so right after senshuraku. He could tell the shimpan that decide the banzuke what his plans are. They might then over-demote him to make room for someone who deserves to be there. The banzuke writers are human, after all, and there are no algorithms and few rules regarding the placement of rikishi. We would probably never know that's what happened, beyond speculation on the promotion/demotion threads.

Nope. The banzuke is written just after the basho and is set in stone. It's how they can announce new juryo so quickly. It also leads to quirky things like when Hokuseiho go kicked out. He was persona non grata so they didn't even want his shikona on the banzuke. His space was blank, and they didn't move anyone to fill it.

You know, in Korean.

Yeah, there's a big difference between "got wasted and woke up and don't know why my head was shaven" (never did find out which one of us did that) and what this is. This is the kind of stuff that usually escalates if left unchecked, who knows what hasn't been reported on. Hopefully it is just a case of a bunch of drunk dudes blowing off steam, but even if it was all consenting and in good fun it's just too easy to cross that line. Hopefully whatever punishment gets meted out is targeted and effective to keep the guys safe.

Wasn't there a similar element with some mop or broom handles with Hokuseiho's scandal?

It's been done before, but it didn't work out in large part because of who they promoted rather than his sumo. Still, his sumo was good but not good enough to win. Hopefully that lesson doesn't get forgotten, but lessons do tend to vanish from collective memories over time.

Every day I've been to the Kokugikan the sold out banners were flying, and I was there all day, and there were entire sections in the upper level that never had a soul even walk through them to get to another section. Off topic, but anyone know what's up with that? Back on topic, kind of. Has anyone ever heard of Abema doing copyright strikes?

They do that on their main NHK World site, as well. I watch a lot of their programs and it seems random how long things stay up and how many episodes they keep up. I'm sure it's a contract thing, but it's strange. At least Lunch On! gets on there now. Some shows don't get video at all. Watch it in real time or not at all.