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How the Sports Industry Is Reeling from Betting Scandals
Two major league baseball players in the U.S. were indicted earlier this month for allegedly rigging pitches during games. It's the latest betting scandal to rock the sports world, and comes on the heels of the FBI's widespread sports betting and money laundering conspiracy arrests. Those implicated in the scandals maintain their innocence. Sports journalist Joon Lee joins the show to discuss.
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About the Program
PBS and WNET, in collaboration with CNN, launched the new one-hour late-night public affairs series Amanpour and Company on Monday, September 10 on PBS (check local listings).
The new series features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports. Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by the Anderson Family Endowment, Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Candace King Weir, the Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism, the Leila and Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust, the Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation, The Peter G. Peterson & Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, Charles Rosenblum, Monique Schoen Warshaw, Koo and Patricia Yuen and Barbara Hope Zuckerberg.