• First-ever sports SPAC could target English soccer giant Liverpool

    First-ever sports SPAC could target English soccer giant Liverpool

    Two US sports moguls just raised more than half a billion dollars — and insiders bet that they’re shopping for a UK soccer team. Last week, prolific sports banker Gerry Cardinale and Billy Beane — the number-crunching Oakland A’s executive-turned-minority owner played by Brad Pitt in 2011’s “Moneyball” — disclosed they had raised $575 million …