A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.

/2 2. Sports corruption cases tend to be relatively straightforward and relatively easy to investigate and prove, compared to other white-collar stuff. And because it’s sports, it is automatically headline-grabbing. So it’s a good reward on investment for DoJ.