Well, at least the Dodgers know Shohei Ohtani can hit the ball.
The scandal has already seen a change in the story from Ohtani's camp.
It took Shohei Ohtani only two at-bats in a Dodger uniform to get his first hit with his new team, much to the delight of his new bride attending the season opener at Seoul's Gocheok Sky Dome on Wednesday.
As a political scientist, I've long believed political competition to be the keystone of representative democracy. Yet in the 2024 election cycle, I'm consciously limiting my time, attention and contributions to politics. I’ve turned off the news and social media app notifications on my phone. I plan to visit two or three trustworthy news websites only once a day. And I’ve unsubscribed to candidate fundraising emails. Why? Because while political competition theoretically drives efficient and...
Ippei Mizuhara was fired by the Dodgers earlier this week.
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani finds himself in the center of controversy after
Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani will address the media on Monday, marking his first public comments since Major League Baseball announced Friday it would be investigating the gambling scandal surrounding Ohtani and former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. It’s unknown what time Ohtani will address the media, as the Dodgers aren’t scheduled to play until
The new Dodgers star has already changed baseball in so many ways. All he
I was not alive during Beatlemania. Nor was I old enough or even alive to understand or experience Fernandomania. And yet, even with the Forrest Gumpian aspects of my life, the dawning of a revelation is upon us all: something big is happening, something we cannot fully see around or see the impact of something unfolding before our very eyes. The 2024 Dodgers are making their regular season debut on the world stage. And at the center of the storm is the Dodgers’ $700 million man: Shohei Ohtani....
It still doesn’t feel right. It still doesn’t make sense. No matter how much Shohei Ohtani and his advisors attempt to clean it up, something in all this gambling garbage still stinks. When a smiling Ohtani strides on to the Dodger Stadium field for their home opener Thursday, I want to believe. I want to believe the game’s greatest player is as pure as his image. I want to believe the beloved global superstar is as honorable as he seems. I want to believe the legendary Ohtani magic, for which...
The tip arrived two weeks ago, and it threatened to engulf Major League Baseball’s biggest star, Shohei Ohtani, in scandal. The name of the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger and pitcher had surfaced in a federal investigation of illegal sports gambling — millions of dollars in payments were allegedly made from his bank account to an illicit bookmaker. As The Times investigated the tip and began to assemble a story, Ohtani’s representatives scrambled behind the scenes to head it off. The result was a...
Facing a packed room of reporters, Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani gave prepared remarks Monday in an attempt to shed light on the accusations that his former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, engaged in a "massive theft" of the ballplayer's funds to place bets with an illegal bookmaker, saying he was "saddened and shocked" by the revelations. "I never bet on baseball or any other sports and have never asked someone to do so on my behalf and have never bet through a bookmaker," Ohtani said through...