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Good morning and welcome into First Take. Thank you so much for being with us alongside Stephen A. Smith I'm Molly Karam. We've got a lot to get into today including the start of the NCAA tournament, but we start with perhaps the biggest story in sports right now.

Investicated reporter, Tisha Thompson, kind enough to join us.

Thank you for being with us, Tisha.

To MLB news, where Shohay O'Tani's interpreter, Ipang Nits'ohihara was fired yesterday.

After running up gambling debts that were paid for Motani's bank accounts,

multiple sources have told the SPN,

they totaled at least four and a half million dollars in wire transfers to a Southern

California bookmaker under federal investigation. And Otani

spokesperson at first said that the Dodgers star had covered his friend's

debts but later said that Ottoni was a victim of massive theft and

authorities have been involved. As I just mentioned Tisha Thompson here with

us who broke this story for ESPN.

Tisha good morning. I know it's been a very busy morning for you all over the place.

Thank you so much for the time.

Tisha let's start here. How did this start?

Well, we had been looking into what you were talking about, a federal probe that's going on into a bookmaking operation out of Southern California.

We had multiple sources tell us this was happening.

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