Sport
Analysis: Is the integrity of American sports at stake as they gamble on betting links?
As teams seek to cash in on the billions spent by the betting giants, recent controversies over illegal gambling raise the question of who wins and who loses overall
To illustrate how valuable Shohei Ohtani is to baseball, there is a simple figure: $700 million.
That is the value of the ten year contract the Japanese superstar negotiated with the LA Dodgers last summer, surpassing the $674 million Lionel Messi got out of Barcelona over a four year period.
Here is a smaller figure that could be defining for Ohtani and American sports more widely: $4.5 million.
That is the amount Ohtani’s interpreter is ...
