Ohtani’s Interpreter Fired for Sports Betting - What We Know
ESPN Daily: Ohtani’s Interpreter Fired for Sports Betting
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Show Notes
This isn’t the kind of attention that Major League Baseball was looking for to open the season.
Almost as soon as the league got to celebrate Shohei Ohtani leading his new Dodgers teammates to victory in South Korea, news broke that Ohtani’s name was being dragged into a sports betting scandal involving his longtime friend and interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.
ESPN investigative journalist Tisha Thompson takes us through her reporting to tell us what happened, and how baseball's biggest unicorn finds himself embroiled in a massive controversy.
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