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You know a topic is touchy when people won’t give it a name.
In a story Friday about Major League Baseball’s investigation into a gambling scandal involving the most famous ballplayer on earth, ESPN didn’t mention what’s being investigated until the fifth paragraph. The opening sentence referred to it as “the matter surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.