The big picture: Watching the big game is on the rise with 65% of consumers planning to watch — up from 61% in 2024 — according to a Numerator survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter was sentenced to almost five years in federal prison Thursday for stealing nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball star, the Department of Justice said.
The big picture: Ippei Mizuhara, who worked alongside Ohtani as a Japanese-language translator since the star's MLB debut in 2018, pleaded guilty in June to making unauthorized transfers from the player's bank account to pay off gambling debts.
The NCAA announced Thursday that it's changing its policies to comply with President Trump's executive order banning transgender women from women's sports.
The big picture: The organization, which regulates athletics for 1,100 colleges, indicated two months ago that it has fewer than 10 transgender student-athletes among about 530,000.
