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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Sumo</title>
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		<title>The New Year Sumo Tournament</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/01/22/the-new-year-sumo-tournament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It ended today in Tokyo with yokozuna Hakuho knocking off ozeki Baruto (who had already sewn up the title three days earlier), thereby denying the latter a perfect record for the tournament. Here&#8217;s the Day 13 match against Kotoshogiku where Baruto clinched the title: There were a few dodgy bouts toward the end, especially a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumo in Fukuoka</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/27/sumo-in-fukuoka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone was looking forward to the current sumo tournament in Fukuoka. Indeed, it&#8217;s turned out to be one of the most exciting basho we&#8217;ve had in years &#8212; but not for the reasons we anticipated. Before it began, all eyes were on the lone yokozuna Hakuho, who had not lost a match since January and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/07/14/this-and-that-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be summer, cuz you&#8217;re never around (a good line stolen from the Fountains of Wayne). But I protest: I really am around. You just wouldn&#8217;t know it from the paucity of blog updates lately. I&#8217;m juggling a large number of rather rather bulky and wobbly projects these days. I did manage to catch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumo in Trouble</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/27/sumo-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The powers-that-be in the world of sumo have backed themselves into a corner. The artificially inflated ethical standards that were invoked to dethrone the foreign yokozuna Asashoryu now prove unattainable for the Japanese-born wrestlers and managers. In particular, the holier-than-thou attitude that developed over the past few years has now inadvertently provoked a major piling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/24/this-and-that-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jazz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Putting One Foot in Front of the Other]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent yesterday afternoon at the Field Museum of Natural History, taking in the &#8220;Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age&#8221; exhibit. The centerpiece artifact is Lyuba, the one-month-old mammoth discovered frozen below the permafrost in northern Russia in 2007. She is remarkably well preserved for a creature some 40,000 years old: she is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midway Point at the Kokugikan</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/05/16/midway-point-at-the-kokugikan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 14:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current Summer Sumo tournament in Tokyo has reached the halfway point. It&#8217;s been insanely busy around my house, so I&#8217;ve managed to watch just a couple of days&#8211;and then only by using the fast-forward button judiciously. It&#8217;s not the best way to watch sumo, since you lose touch with the ritual pacing that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe it was All Just a North Korean Plot?</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/04/22/maybe-it-was-all-just-a-north-korean-plot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo newspapers are reporting that former yokozuna Asashoryu, who retired in disgrace earlier this year after winning the January sumo tournament, was part of an official Mongolian delegation that visited Pyongyang earlier this week. Huh? Full story here (Japanese-language only). Then again, I&#8217;ve just discovered that Wikipedia has a length entry on &#8220;Mongolia-North Korea Relations.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Ozeki</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/30/a-new-ozeki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sumo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just managed to catch up on my sumo, watching the video of last Sunday&#8217;s final day of matches from the Osaka tournament. They certainly saved the best for last: ozeki Harumafuji threw everything he had into a fierce bid to stop yokozuna Hakuho&#8217;s drive for a perfect 15-0 record in the final match of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/20/this-and-that-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sumo tournament in Osaka has reached the midway point, and as expected sole yokozuna Hakuho (7-0) has dominated. But two promising rikishi have also stepped up to take advantage of the opening created by yokozuna Asashoryu&#8217;s sudden retirement last month: ozeki Harumafuji, the former Ama and a disappointment since his promotion to ozeki a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/13/this-and-that-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the dark side, tomorrow we take our first step into that gray new world known as post-Asashoryu sumo. Yokozuna Hakuho is the prohibitive favorite to take home the title in Osaka (has it really been a year since I was there in person for Day 8 last March, watching Asashoryu knock off Baruto in [...]]]></description>
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