/ STAFF WRITER
The Matt Leinart Flag Football League, a for-profit company, used the former USC Heisman Trophy winner’s non-profit foundation to secure access and special rates for sports fields around Orange County that otherwise would not have been available to the league, The Orange County Register has learned.
Ryan Leinart, Matt’s brother and executive director of the Matt Leinart Foundation, acknowledged to the Register that although the “Matt Leinart (Flag Football) League is a separate entity” from the Leinart Foundation, the league used the foundation’s non-profit status to acquire fields for the league at local schools and parks.