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Strawberry has disgraced the sport and does not deserve to return to the field. There appears little likelihood that he has the will and self-determination to actually change his life for the better. Most people in life don't get second chances, and Strawberry has had one too many. By allowing him to remain a part of the game, Major League Baseball is implicitly condoning his conduct. It is hardly an example that America's favorite pastime should...
...stunning indictment: cops who shot suspects and then delayed calling an ambulance, so they could fix the scene to make the shooting look justified; cops who stole drugs and sold them on the street; cops partying with--and sometimes raping--informants; and cops who shot at suspects for sport. One of the Rampart's least distinguished alumni: former officer David Mack, convicted of robbing a bank...
Rumors about sumo fixing have been around almost as long as the sport. Four years ago, a tabloid magazine in Japan ran a series of articles alleging yakuza (Japanese mafia) ties and match rigging. Making the claims then were two ex-wrestlers, who died suddenly within 15 hours of each other in the same Nagoya hospital and of the same respiratory ailment. Sumo is indeed filled with mystery. Itai is aware of the fate of previous whistle-blowers. One of the deceased wrestlers was his stable master...
Sumo has always seemed a peculiar sport. Two behemoth-size men in loincloths rinse out their mouths with water, throw salt in a clay ring and ram their massive bodies against each other for a few seconds under the suspended roof of a Shinto shrine. "Mysterious. Religious. Philosophical." That's how retired wrestler Keisuke Itai describes sumo. But if accusations he is making are to be believed, it is a sport that is also full of cheaters...
...going public with his allegations, Itai was in hiding, fearing that gangsters with sumo ties had put out a contract on his life. "I'm not afraid! I'm not hiding!" Itai protested. The Japan Sumo Association, Vatican-like in its secrecy, and with a hammerlock hold on the sport, has always denied charges of match fixing. (It refused interview requests from TIME last week.) But Itai isn't going down lightly. He has produced tapes he surreptitiously made during sumo meetings in 1989 and 1991. They suggest that, contrary to the association's denials, the sumo kingpins knew...