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...Number of times a player must test positive for steroids to be banned from the sport...
...commissioner of women's pro golf has worn many hats--salesman, marketing exec, cheerleader in chief--but until Carolyn Bivens, 52, took over in September, the LPGA's CEO had never worn heels. Its first female commish says the sport is stronger than ever: "Previous commissioners had to focus on the question, Is there a viable market for a women's golf league? That question has been forever answered." With Sorenstam still dominant and Wie whacking her way up, TV ratings are soaring, galleries are record breaking and corporate sponsors are clamoring to get in. So what's left...
...amateur European sumo tour two years ago, and in this year's Junior World Sumo Championship in Tokyo he finished second in heavyweight competition. With a small-town boy's big-city dream, he hopes to move from amateur to professional in the sacred rings of sumo in the sport's motherland. "The only place to reach the top is in Japan," he says. For the past two months, the 6-ft. 3-in., 276-lb. teen heavyweight has lived and trained with top amateur wrestlers affiliated with Nihon University in Tokyo. Two of his countrymen have enjoyed sumo success...
...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 are increasingly crowding the upper echelons, occupying 12 of the sport's top 42 rankings. Thirty-four of today's 58 foreign wrestlers are from Mongolia, which...
...Japan, however, sumo is not just a sport but also a revered institution, an intrinsic part of the national genome. A number of its esoteric rituals are rooted in Shinto, the native animist religion, and its training emphasizes ancient Japanese virtues, such as duty, fortitude and respect for elders, as much as it does pure athletic prowess. Even though the foreign invasion has reignited public interest in the stagnating sport, many elders at the clubby and hidebound Japan Sumo Association have become fearful that admitting too many hungry foreign upstarts will dilute what they routinely rhapsodize as professional sumo...