The Real Housewives of Sports Betting Scandals

It’s not every day that you read about an NBA player having a brother banned for life from the league for gambling, another brother going to prison for killing a woman, and another brother arrested for a DWI all within the same month.

Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr. needs to call Esther Perel to sign his family up for counseling.

When Mark Walter, the owner of the Dodgers and the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, met with two-way star Shohei Ohtani this past winter, he attempted to sell a vision based on these conflicting truths, the immense pride and deep frustration within his franchise. The Dodgers had become a colossus since Walter’s group took over in 201... See more

Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the tea... See more