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Being a Cleveland sports fan is like that. I'm a Pittsburgh sports fan, but I managed to pick up the Guardians as my main baseball rooting interest because A) I went to university there, and B) my grandfather was the team doctor the last time they won the World Series. In 1948.

Russian forces withdraw from Ukraine after Shishi beats Rōga again.

Being hailed as the "next Ozeki" didn't work out so well for Shodai, though he eventually got there. I wouldn't curse Kotonowaka with the moniker.

We even came with an inch of a Hokutofuji yusho. And a Nishikigi one.

...because they're gold?

And two kadoban for Aki.

Wow, that was some jinx!

That vaguely rings a bell, but the whole pandemic is a blur.

The long pandemic has completely scrambled my brain, and I've forgotten. Remind me what happened?

And if he succeeds, he'll waste no time getting back to Maegashira or lower Sanyaku, so he can get the run after that going, too.

Ms1 to Ms5 is the promotion zone. Ms6 to Ms15 is the extended promotion zone; it normally takes a zensho to be promoted from there, unless there's a big excess of demoteable Juryo rikishi.

I have no interest whatever in GTB, but I watch Ozumo for the soap opera of rikishi getting promoted and demoted more than I watch it for the technical details in the dohyo.

Yay! Oh, wait, it's still December....

Yuk-san wa kibishii desu. Yuk-san wa midori desu!

Is a judo therapist someone who conducts their psychoanalysis sessions on the tatami mat during randori?