Super League among sporting ventures that went wrong

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, April 21, 2021, a protest banner against the proposed Super League is seen outside Liverpool's Anfield Stadium after the collapse of English involvement in the proposed new league, Liverpool, England. The aborted plan to create a breakaway Super League with 12 of the biggest clubs in European soccer was perhaps the most egregious example of a sporting venture that quickly fell flat on its face. (AP Photo/Jon Super, FILE)

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday June 11, 2008, Allen Stanford, chairman of Stanford 20/20 Cricket, and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), gets out of his helicopter on landing at Lords Cricket Ground, in London. Stanford brought razzmatazz to the quaint sport by signing a deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2008 for a dollars 20 million series of Twenty20 matches against a Caribbean team labeled the “Stanford All-Stars.” but it lasted one series and Stanford was charged with fraud and sentenced to 110 years in prison in 2012. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, FILE)