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Terunofuji completes the greatest comeback in the history of ozumo by winning the July basho. A remarkable, highly improbable outcome.

Asanoyama must be kicking himself.

What the hell happene ...

Gino Marchetti, one of the greatest players in NFL history, passes away.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nfl/bs-sp-colts-marchetti-obit-20190430-story.html

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Y1e Hakuho 15 - 0

M4w Ichinojo 14 - 1

O1w Goeido 12 - 3

M7e Aoiyama 12 - 3

M8w Kotoshogiku 11 - 4

Who knew Ichinojo could be consistently excellent throughout an entire basho. ...

They just recently did a poll (for people old enough to remember) who the most popular drama actresses of the 1990's were. Not to surprising who came out no.1:

1) Tomoko Yamaguchi

2) Nanako Mats ...

Dan Jenkins, one of the great sportswriters of all-time, died last week at the age of 90.
He became nationally known when he joined Sports Illustrated in the early 60's. Later, he went on to write a ...

Ramen Heads is a 2017 Japanese documentary about--you guessed it--ramen. The movie focuses on Tomita Osamu, the reigning king of ramen in Japan (his restaurant in Matsudo, Chiba has won the title of ...

And here are the remaining Brooklyn Dodger players still living. I would have known Roger Craig, Carl Erskine, Lasorda, and Koufax. Most of the rest, I never heard of.

Bob Aspromonte, born June ...

Re: January basho

A lot of yaocho in this tournament. Pretty obvious examples.

Actress Kiki Kirin passed away yesterday at 75.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/closeup/4002717/

Kaio appeared on the Dotchi no Ryori special that aired several years after that show ended. Looked like he had lost weight, not a lot but some.

The two yokozuna from Hawaii who were Kaio's co ...

I highly recommend the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. The original Swedish films, not the American remake. Excellent suspense films. Available on Netflix.

Is it too late to comment on som ...

Much like Sei Hiraizumi, it seemed like this guy was everything.

Masahiko Tsugawa passes away from heart failure

Actor Masahiko Tsugawa passed away on August 4th from heart failure. He was 78 y ...

There were two classes of College Football announcers.

1) Keith Jackson

2) All the rest.

RIP, Keith:

Was out of the country, so I didn't know about Keith Jackson's passing until a couple o ...

Glad Harumafuji was able to win his ninth basho. A class act, the epitome of hinkaku, which is an important characteristic for yokozuna.

Here's a short video which shows he's not your typical pro ...

Of all the taigas I've seen, this one, "Toshie to Matsu" and "Musashi" would be my "besto 3". By an amazing coincidence, all three had casts consisting of excellent a ...

Re: Trails to Tsukiji.

Like that show a lot. Anything sold there can be a subject for an episode: sea food, vegetables, fruit, etc.

Today is the 80th anniversary of the official state food of Hawaii, SPAM:

Spam is a very versatile meat; it can be thrown into anything: with ramen (or saimin if you're in Hawaii), in omelettes, an ...

Watched a documentary, Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016).

While the subject is of course Japanese and most of the people interviewed are Japanese, this is not a Japanese film. It was directed by Ja ...

Just as a great ballplayer will get his number retired, they should now retire the character of overbearing mother-in-law:

Yoko Nogiwa passes away at 81

Actress Nogiwa Yoko passed away at the a ...

Oh man! This is our old Mitsuwa. I want to go so bad. Maybe next year though we can since we hope to move back across the country to SoCal next year....we might move to SD and not LA this time, th ...