Sentences with phrase «pound sumo wrestler»

It is the name of a 27 - year - old, 6», 275 - pound Sumo wrestler, Japan's grand champion since 1973.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

Not exact matches

At 3939 pounds, it's far and away the largest and heaviest car here, and it lumbers to the starting line like a sumo wrestler entering the ring, groaning and creaking as if in warning of the violence that lay ahead.

Although in this case, it's more like proving men average 350 pounds (or whatever) by sampling champion sumo wrestlers.