FIFA World Cup spin-off snafu illustrates that there are limits, if tenuous

Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic’s weekly sports business cheat sheet. Name-dropped today: Gianni Infantino, LeBron James, Larry Berg, Tony Romo, Serena Williams, Alex Eala, Matt Futterman, Ken Rosenthal, Ted Lasso, Paraag Marathe, John Harbaugh, Christopher Nolan, John Ourand, Cleveland Sirens and more. Let’s go: Wait, are there really limits to greed in sports? Throughout the past week’s crisis over Gianni Infantino’s ill-advised, ill-received and ultimately ill-fated idea to spin off a World Cup side hustle backed by private equity investors — which might ensnare him in...

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