Saudi Arabia could be losing its appetite for investment in sports.<\/p>\n
Amid indications that the Public Investment Fund may be ending its support of LIV golf<\/a>, Saudi Arabia may cease its funding<\/a> of the Fanatics Flag Football Classic, according to Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports.<\/p>\n Per the report, Fanatics and Saudi Arabia disagreed on whether to relocate the March 21 event to Los Angeles or to postpone it to a later date in Riyadh. The Saudis pulled support for the 2026 event after it moved to L.A. Whether Saudi Arabia will be involved in the future remains to be seen.<\/p>\n Glasspiegel reports that the tournament will continue, with or without Saudi support.<\/p>\n The event gave flag football a boost in America, especially since the U.S. men\u2019s national team went 3-0 against teams made up mostly of current and former NFL players. Which is a huge benefit for the NFL, given the effort to use flag football to help further globalize the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia could be losing its appetite for investment in sports. Amid indications that the Public Investment Fund…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-587146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}