Fat bottomed guys make the rotten world go round.

There’s a very brief article in this morning’s NYT about Japan’s sumo scandal.

One wrestler (Keiji Tamiya, who wrestled under the name Kotomitsuki) has been banned for life because he bet on baseball games, and apparently paid $35,000 in blackmail money to a gangster.

A coach, Tadashige Naya, was also banned; if I understand the NYT article correctly, he was a coach in the same stable as Kotomitsuki, and was also involved in gambling.

The NYT article is frustratingly short; it alludes to other scandals involving drugs and rigged matches, and mentions an issue with sales of front-row seats to gangsters, but doesn’t go into much detail. Google turned up a CSM article from late last week that goes into a bit more detail about the current scandals and some of the past ones. There’s also a WSJ article from a few weeks ago that covers some of the same ground. I vaguely recall reading something about the Asashoryu scandal, but I must have been distracted by shiny objects at the time.

Question for my readers: is anyone aware of a good English-language source for sumo coverage and information?

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