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...Bulgarian (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov) with quick feet and even quicker arm throws. Kotooshu is a media superstar and national sex symbol, dubbed "the [David] Beckham of Sumo" by the Japanese press. If he racks up 12 or more wins over 15 matches during a 15-day contest that ends Nov. 27, his promotion to ozeki, sumo's second highest rank, is virtually guaranteed. Of the 735 wrestlers currently under the Japan Sumo Association (the sport's major league), 58, or 8%, are foreigners, from 12 countries. That is up from less than 2% in 1998. And those foreigners...
...separate state with its own borders, flag and national anthem. Prabhakaran's decision to enforce a boycott of the election by ethnic Tamils in the north and east, who overwhelmingly preferred opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to the hawkish Rajapakse, almost certainly cost Wickremesinghe the presidency in this tightly fought contest. "If Prabhakaran wanted any kind of peace, even peace on his own terms," says Dayan Jayatilleka, a visiting scholar in South Asia studies at Johns Hopkins University, "he wouldn't have sunk Ranil...
...first triple-overtime contest in the history of the Ivy League...
...just followed them into the endzone,” said tailback Clifton Dawson, referring to his two-yard touchdown run to end the contest on third-and-goal in the third overtime. Dawson finished the day with 128 yards on 33 carries as well as 10 catches for 85 yards and a touchdown...
...wasn’t the first time this year Harvard squeaked by with a win in a multiple-overtime thriller. The team’s second game of the season, a 38-35 double-overtime victory over Ivy champion Brown, helped the Crimson in Saturday’s contest...