Southern Hemisphere rugby union tournament between the top provincial side from NZ, Australia and South Africa.
Why does it matter who they support? As long as they support one of the big clubs who move into the super league so watch it and pay their TV subscription the clubs won't really give a ****.
This. He's not really even an "American Sports Executive." He was once the GM of an MLS club and was horrible at it, leading to his firing. Pretty much a laughing stock for the few fans that followed MLS at the time. Now he is basically an independent promoter. So of course he would love a job overseeing a tournament with the wirld's largest teams. Any number of European "sports executives" would say the same.