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Jake Rosenwasser

Jake Rosenwasser is an investigative reporter and producer for CBS News, based in New York. His reporting examines the world of sports beyond the games themselves, with a focus on business, health, gambling and prediction markets.

He spent the first 17 years of his career at HBO, primarily working on the show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," where he investigated weight-cutting in mixed martial arts, the deaths of football players due to heat stroke, growing spending on college sports, unregulated supplement use in the military and the American sports leagues' reversal on gambling.

Jake grew up outside New York City and has degrees from the University of Michigan and Columbia Journalism School.

Betting companies cap winners while lavishing losers with rewards

As online sports betting companies offer extravagant perks to customers who are losing large sums of money, there are also questions about how they treat their biggest winners.

Oct 26

Sports betting apps entice fans as gambling exacts a growing financial toll

Betting platforms FanDuel and DraftKings say tools are there to help addicted gamblers slow down.

Sep 20

Video shows NBA's Brandon Clarke stopped by police 6 weeks before his death

Arkansas police said they found bags of capsules containing a green powdery substance in Brandon Clarke's car, which he told them was kratom.

Jul 13

Years after sex abuse scandal, a young gymnast says "it happened again"

Sean Gardner, a gymnastics coach who trained elite young girls, will be in federal court in Mississippi on Monday facing 12 felony counts of sexual exploitation of children.

May 11