At the Paralympics, athletes are grouped by classes. But some athletes intentionally misrepresent their impairments to be placed in a more favorable class. It’s called “classification doping.” @PabloTorre and I investigate, in this new @pablofindsout:

Today, Ippei Mizuhara was sentenced to almost 5 years in prison for stealing $17 million from Shohei Ohtani, the player he worked for as an interpreter. How could this happen? Watch our @pablofindsout report on the secret world of baseball interpreters:

Some people on death row use their last words to shoutout their favorite team: “How ‘bout them Cowboys.” @FlemFile interviewed an inmate on being a sports fan (and playing fantasy football) behind bars. Powerful story w/ @PabloTorre @pablofindsout:

The science of touch, measuring how a pitcher grips a baseball, the pressure points, the amount of pressure applied ... could be the next frontier in baseball analytics. Fascinating @zschonbrun essay here for @TheAtlantic:

In Brooklyn, there’s a small plaque marking home plate at Ebbets Field, the former home of the Dodgers. Tourists have trouble finding it, and maintenance workers from the apartment building there now serve as tour guides. @andrewkeh captures the scene:

Also relevant to all this: @romanstubbs and @RickMaese reported this week that four US Paralympic athletes were barred from this year's closing ceremonies for questioning the classification of one of their teammates:

Excited for this: SPIRALED, a new narrative podcast examining Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila and other former NFL players who joined an extreme religious group. Reported by the great @kalynkahler. First episode out now:

The Paralympics start today in Paris. Watch our @pablofindsout investigation on “classification doping”: how athletes are moving classes to gain an advantage and win medals.

RT @pablofindsout: "The people who are getting hurt the most are the people with the most severe impairments, with the most serious disabil…

RT @pablofindsout: The Paralympics has a massive cheating problem! "We'd get done with races in my classification, and guys would literall…

Para-cyclist David Berling is suing the IPC over an issue called “classification doping.” A decision is expected in Sept. If he wins, it’d allow Paralympic athletes to challenge *other athletes* believed to be cheaters. More here on @pablofindsout:

RT @PabloTorre: The most feel-good event of the global sports calendar starts this month. But two whistleblowers reveal to @pablofindsout…

RT @andrewkeh: A story about a little, family-run Chinese restaurant in Paris that's become the unofficial clubhouse of Olympic table tenni…

Today is the Olympic final for men’s sabre fencing. Don’t miss this terrific @pablofindsout episode, reported by @PabloTorre, on the match-fixing scandal engulfing the sport. Bribes, compromised referees, conflicts of interest, Russian oligarchs and more:

At the MLB all-star break, @PabloTorre and I dove into the secret world of baseball interpreters. We explored how they’re hired, what the job actually entails, and lots of important context around the Shohei Ohtani-Ippei Mizuhara scandal:

RT @PabloTorre: There’s no job in sports like an MLB player’s Japanese interpreter. In part because, as @TimRohan reports, “maybe 1% is ac…