The Lionsgate TV project will focus on Ippei Mizuhara's gambling scandal, which led to his firing by the Dodgers.

Ippei Mizuhara, Shoehei Ohtani's ex-interpreter, had a negative balance of $40.7 million, prosecutors claim. That's bad, a sports betting expert said.

Starz & Lionsgate Series About Shohei Ohtani Translator's Gambling Scandal in works with Justin Lin and Alex Convery ...

After getting rebuffed by media companies with relationships with MLB, Lionsgate reached an agreement with Starz to develop the show about Shohei Ohtani's crooked interpreter Ippei Mizuhara.

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for MLB star Shohei Ohtani, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison on Thursday ...

Nearly a year after it first rocked the baseball world, we finally have a resolution to the Ippei Mizuhara scandal. Shohei Ohtani's former translator and close confidante, who was convicted of ...

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Shoehei Ohtani, will surrender to federal agents on a later date after receiving a postponement, according to the Department of Justice. Federal authorities ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have long since moved past the Ippei Mizuhara gambling scandal that rocked the organization at the beginning of the 2024 season. Shohei Ohtani found himself connected to an ...

I will start with an obvious caveat – as far as we know, Shohei Ohtani was unaware his former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, was using his funds to gamble on sports. MLB has concluded as such, and we ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities allege Ippei Mizuhara, the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, stole more than $16 million from the two-way baseball ...

Ippei Mizuhara agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to federal charges of felony bank fraud and submitting a false tax return after authorities found that he stole nearly $17 million from Los Angeles ...

Michael Jordan and Nike movie “Air” screenwriter Alex Convery will be the writer and showrunner for the Mizuhara production. The director is Justin Lin, who directed the movie “The Fast and the ...