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Cracking disguise!

What do you mean "refused to retire"? Did his Oyakata order him to do so?

It never occurred to me that I was picking a guy who was fighting a boy named Tsu!

My antivirus is still blocking this site.

Here are my group of 2017 champions. 1-5 Pandaazuma 6-10 Norizo 11-20 Andoreasu 21-40 Flohru 41-80 Gernobono 81-120 Hana-ichi 121-200 Getayukata 201+ ilovetochinoshin Gawasukotto

Erm, I know I didn't perform as well as I'd hoped, but I haven't slipped down to the 201+ group just yet.

Is there a reason why Tamawashi wasn't considered for the Shukun-sho?

For me, todays highlight were Kisenosato's facial expressions at Kotoyuki's habitual antics in the lead up to the bout. I know he never does it, but I did wonder if he might have been thinking henka.

I would guess that they thought Goeido was shinitai, whilst though Tochinoshin was in the air when Shodai went dow, he hadn't crossed the bales.

Do rikishi shave their underarms?

I wasn't able to watch the last couple of days, when life bites you can't sit down. I would like, however, to offer a huge thanks to everyone who provided the links throughout the basho, especially Asojima whose work never seems to be done!

Only if you can Talk Sumo. But can I call you Betty?

The ankle biters are head to head in Juryo tomorrow. That should be fun

Terunofuji should just take the weekend off now.

Good uninterrupted viewing today and some excellent bouts.

I reckon Harumafuji thought he'd won that bout.

Looks like Kise needs to learn how to pull when he's got his aite off balance like that.

Obviously thinks that a hansoku should have been called for the hair pull.

Scowl of the day to Gagamaru. Was it a hair pull?

First Makuuchi bout of the day, gold hat man clambers into the box centre view and completely obscures the vision of the woman sitting there. She's having to lean away to one side now to watch the action.

I have Vaughn and the Chinese channels open and both are fine for the moment. UBS1 isn't working. Tells me cross domain denied.

That's the stream I was using. It completely packed in just at the tachiai on the Kise-Giku bout. The Chinese one looked first class.

Working great for me. UBS has totally gone now.

Wonderful timing from the lizard people on UBS.

How much can Yoshikaze see with those swollen eyes? He can't have much in the way of lateral vision.