Perhaps not since Pete Rose has Major League Baseball had a gambling scandal as big as the one that’s currently unfolding with Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani. Over the last week, reports about payments from Shohei Ohtani’s bank account being wired to a bookmaking operation have become the top story of the sports world, […]
Opinion by Keith O’Brien (CNN) — We’re a week into baseball’s gambling crisis surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, his close friend and former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, an alleged illegal bookmaker in southern California and at least $4.5 million in wire transfers from Ohtani’s bank accounts. And already, Ohtani, Mizuhara, their representatives, and Major League
Opinion by Keith O’Brien (CNN) — We’re a week into baseball’s gambling crisis surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, his close friend and former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, an alleged illegal bookmaker in southern California and at least $4.5 million in wire transfers from Ohtani’s bank accounts. And already, Ohtani, Mizuhara, their representatives, and Major League
Opinion by Keith O’Brien (CNN) — We’re a week into baseball’s gambling crisis surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, his close friend and former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, an alleged illegal bookmaker in southern California and at least $4.5 million in wire transfers from Ohtani’s bank accounts. And already, Ohtani, Mizuhara, their representatives, and Major League
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Since Quiet on Set, the exposé on Nickelodeon that revealed a toxic work
After decades of speculation about network kingmaker Dan Schneider’s reign of terror over Nickelodeon, the Investigation Discovery documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV finally blows the lid off the network’s rot. Streaming service documentaries are a dime a dozen these days, and the sheer volume has diluted the wow factor of […]
Kate Middleton has reportedly been spending time at home cooking for her family and doing school drop-offs while conspiracy theories about her have run wild.
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I am neither an intelligence person nor a security expert. So analyzing intelligence reports is not my forte. I do not also know whether there is a dearth of intelligence in the country or a deliberate refusal to act on available intelligence. But clearly what is happening in the northern part of our beleaguered country suggests a […]
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There has been some media chatter lately that Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake is tacking to the middle to appeal to non-MAGA voters as she appears headed to sew up the Republican nomination. According to reports, Lake has been doing things in recent months to either obscure or downplay her extremist stances. This has included publicly retreating from some of her statements staunchly opposing abortion rights and reproductive freedom, dismissing her cruel crusade against the late Arizona Sen....