The British billionaire owner of Premier League side Tottenham, Joe Lewis, pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges Wednesday in a U.S. federal court. The 86-year-old Lewis, who lives in Bahamas, earlier traveled to the United States, where he surrendered to authorities in New York. Lewis is accused of furnishing employees and lovers with inside […]
Peter Hutchinson
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When Pele conquered America
Pele was 34 and semi-retired when the New York Cosmos fended off interest from Juventus and Real Madrid to lure the world’s greatest player to the soccer backwater that was America in 1975. “If you go there, all you can do is win a championship. You come here, you win a country,” Englishman Clive Toye, […]