The billions swirling around that triangle make FIFA the biggest single sporting enterprise on earth.
The Kabaddi World Cup is indicative of the current state of Indian sporting enterprise.
Darhan Kaletaev, FC Astana's chairman, was quick to thank the godfather of the Astana sporting enterprise.
What's also worth considering is the as-yet-unnamed MLS team (which may initially share Marlins Park when it joins MLS as planned in 2016) isn't the only sporting enterprise in the city seeking permission for home improvements.
Teams from 12 countries – India, Iran, Bangladesh, Thailand, the United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea, England, Poland, Kenya, and Argentina – are competing in the first edition of the Kabaddi World Cup in nine years, and the first since its revolution into a modern sporting enterprise.
This is maddening, in that it deprives us fans of good stuff to watch on a summer weekend morning, over a bowl of Crunchberries, yet also commendable, in that it defies commercial logic; any sporting enterprise that spurns easy money is a-O.K. with me.
For all its shabbiness, this park is greatly coveted, not only by Queens residents but by popular and profitable sports enterprises.
The Avalanche, the Broncos and the Rockies have to hope that their championship-by-time-machine strategy does not go the way of other local sports enterprises.
Now, the Treasury Department has determined that "there exists no apparent justification for treating acquisitions of franchises to conduct sports enterprises differently than the acquisitions of other trades or businesses".
