Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, pled guilty to criminal charges this past Wednesday.[1] The criminal charges were in connection with Mizuhara’s scheme to steal more than $17 million from Ohtani to pay off the extensive debts he accumulated through illegal gambling.[2] When the news broke of Mizuhara’s illegal gambling operation, he was immediately fired... Continue Reading →
This week the College Football Players Association is supposed to meet with lawmakers to draft new legislation that would grant athletes certain worker protections.[1] The legislation would also give collective bargaining rights but would stop short of considering athletes full employees.[2] Lawmakers are trying to create language that will classify the group of athletes who... Continue Reading →
Dak Prescott was accused of sexual assault in February of 2017. A woman claimed that Prescott assaulted her in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a bar where she worked.[1] The claim came after Prescott’s rookie season with the Dallas Cowboys.[2] However, Prescott immediately denied the woman’s allegations and asserted his... Continue Reading →
Brandon Miller was a star player for the Alabama Crimson Tide mens basketball team in the 2022-2023 season. Miller was then drafted second overall in the 2023 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets. On January 15th, there was a shooting that took the life of a twenty-three-year-old woman, Jamea Jonae Harris.[1] Miller was suspected of... Continue Reading →
Five pitches into Monday’s game, Aaron Boone was ejected in one of the most bizarre ejections I have ever seen. The New York Yankees were playing the Oakland Athletics at Yankee Stadium. This was the first game of a four game home series for the Yankees. While Aaron Boone has been known to lay into... Continue Reading →
Recently, the NFL held a four-day medical conference that is believed to be the first of its kind. More than 400 athletic trainers, equipment managers, strength and conditioning coaches, nutrition experts, and sports science directors “came together to learn from each other and from the league’s research partners.”[1] Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical... Continue Reading →
The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation after a video has emerged from a Colorado Rockies flight. The Rockies hitting coach, Hensley Meulens, posted a video of himself sitting inside the cockpit during a United Airlines team-chartered flight. While the video itself was harmless, the concern comes from the fact that the plane was... Continue Reading →
On Sunday, April 7th, former University of Texas star defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat was arrested on a charge of suspicion of driving while intoxicated in Austin, Texas.[1] According to local news stations, Sweat was driving on Interstate 35 and was booked at 2:12 pm.[2] Sweat posted a$3,000 bond following his arrest.[3] Sweat was supposed to... Continue Reading →
The college landscape has been changing drastically over the past year. There has been an influx of colleges that have sought to move from the conferences that they are currently in. The Atlantic Coastal Conference (the “ACC”) has added three new teams for the 2024-2025 season with open arms. It has added the University of... Continue Reading →
For some, March is the best time of the year. It’s not because the weather starts to become a little nicer or because the sun is out a little longer, it is because it is the beginning of March Madness. The NCAA college basketball tournament (the “Tournament”) begins in March and is one of the... Continue Reading →