The racing world reacted with shock and sadness after jockey Kota Fujioka died following a fall during a race, the second fatality to hit the sport in as many weeks.
Tiger Woods had played just 24 holes this year coming into the opening round of the Masters.
Text messages between Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, and the operator of an illegal sports book — revealed in a 37-page federal criminal complaint filed on Thursday in the United States — paint a picture of a person ensnared in a web of deceit and theft as he desperately chased gambling losses while the walls closed in around him.
Sometimes, truth is even stranger than fiction.
U.S. federal prosecutors said Thursday that Shohei Ohtani had been the victim of a "fraud on a massive scale,” releasing a detailed complaint that claimed Ippei Mizuhara, the baseball star’s former interpreter, exploited his access and the fact that Ohtani did not speak English to steal $16 million from him to feed his gambling addiction.
