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- <text id=93TT2422>
- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: Sumo Yankee
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 71
- Sumo Yankee
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
- </p>
- <p> At 6 ft. 8 in. and 466 LBS., Chad Rowen is no girl's
- blind-date fantasy. But then, does a guy need sex appeal when
- he's attained star status in the world of sumo wrestling? Last
- week Rowan, 23 and Hawaiian, became the first man outside Japan
- to achieve yokozuna, or grand-champion rank, in the
- 2,000-year-old sport that requires near-naked Nutri/System
- candidates to grapple each other inside a clay ring. Japanese
- fans honored Rowan with a presentation of live lobsters. He
- could have used a StairMaster.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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