liverpool sold to Red Sox owners
After reviving the pride of New England, John Henry and Tom Werner will try to resuscitate one of Old England's most famous soccer teams. The Boston Red Sox ownership group won its fight for Liverpool on Friday, gaining control of the struggling and nearly bankrupt Premier League club from Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. in a trans-Atlantic legal tussle that replaced one set of American owners with another. Henry and Werner are hoping to do with soccer what they did in baseball. Before they bought the Red Sox in 2002, the franchise hadn't won the World Series since 1918. The pair transformed it into a model club that won not one but two Series titles, in 2004 and 2007. They restored venerable Fenway Park, to boot. Now they'll turn their attention to the pride of Liverpool, the gritty northwest England seaport that brought the world the Beatles. While the Reds have won a record-tying 18 English league titles, they haven't finished first since 1990, and play in crumb...