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    Yang & Filo Sumo Each Other To Save The World

    Will wrestle for climate change from Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal blog covers that the co-founders of Yahoo put on sumo suits to wrestle each other. Jerry Yang and David Filo agreed to this match after Yahoos did their part to their impact on the environment. Why sumo wrestle? Reportedly, Yang and Filo were addicted to sumo […]

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    Will wrestle for climate change from Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal blog covers that the co-founders of Yahoo put on sumo suits to wrestle each other. Jerry Yang and David Filo agreed to this match after Yahoos did their part to their impact on the environment.

    Why sumo wrestle? Reportedly, Yang and Filo were addicted to sumo wrestling while graduate students while in Kyoto in 1992 during their days at Stanford.

    For more pictures go here and here, plus I may have more for the Search in Pictures column on Friday.


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