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LIV Golf's comeback is over before it started. BC Partners, the private capital firm that planned to relaunch the bankrupt Saudi-backed league as "LIV 2.0," is walking away. That leaves LIV expected to move from Chapter 11 reorganization, where a company tries to restructure and survive, to liquidation, where its remaining assets are sold off.

BC had pledged up to $300M for a 17-tournament global team league, and it put in $4M as a bankruptcy loan to get the effort started. The firm also hoped to pick up about $5B of LIV's tax losses, which could have lowered the tax bill on future sports deals.

The plan depended on signing enough golfers before deadlines set in the bankruptcy case. About 30 players were committed or interested, with another 10 sought-after names still in talks. However, few signed formal contracts, and some player representatives made financial demands that couldn't be met right away.

The DP World Tour, Europe's main men's tour, stopped letting LIV golfers play in its events, which made jumping to LIV 2.0 a bigger risk. Its commissioner said the tour had to protect itself from an entity that reportedly spent over $7B "with one of their aims being to destroy" it. Stars including Jon Rahm, Sergio García and Tyrrell Hatton had already said no to staying.

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has put more than $5B into LIV since 2021, mostly on prize money and guaranteed contracts to lure top players. This spring it said it would stop funding the league after the 2026 season, saying the investment no longer fit its strategy. LIV filed for bankruptcy in September. PIF owns 99% of the league and controls the process through $550M of senior loans, which get paid back first.

Takeaway: LIV is a case study in what happens when a business is funded by a single backer rather than by its own revenue. BC’s interest was as much about the $5B of tax losses as the league itself, but the plan still required players to sign contracts on terms a private investor could support. With PIF holding senior debt ahead of everyone else, players and vendors with unsecured claims are now likely to recover only a fraction of what they’re owed.

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Okinawa, Sardinia and three other regions are famous for people living past 100. Researcher Saul Newman went back to UN mortality data covering 236 jurisdictions from 1970 to 2021 and found a pattern.

Some of the places with the most reported centenarians have short life expectancy, such as Kenya at 64 and Malawi at 65. In 2010 the Japanese government found that 82% of the citizens listed as over 100 were already dead. In Greece in 2012, 72% of centenarians claiming pensions, about 9,000 people, were dead.

Newman’s argument is that clerical errors, missing birth records and pension fraud explain much of the apparent longevity. Okinawa also has higher obesity and higher mortality between ages 40 and 65 than mainland Japan.

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