Axios

If money talks, Newcastle United will soon be the loudest club in Europe.

Driving the news: The 129-year-old English club has been acquired by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) for $409 million, or roughly 0.09% of the fund's total value.

Eight teams remain in the World Series hunt. With the division series underway, here's one stat about each matchup.

• Rays vs. Red Sox: These are the only teams left whose starters were outside the top seven in regular-season ERA (Rays: 4.08, t-13th; Red Sox: 4.49, 17th).

On Sunday, the NFL will play its 29th regular-season game in London. And for the 29th straight time, it will not feature two winning teams (1-3 Jets vs. 1-3 Falcons).

Think about that: The NFL has been going to London since 2007 — the same year the first iPhone debuted — and it has yet to put two winning teams on the field together.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is now the new de facto owner of Newcastle United Football Club.

Driving the news: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund completed the deal Thursday after an 18-month delay.

Eighteen former NBA players on Thursday were charged with defrauding the league's health and welfare benefit plan out of nearly $4 million.

Driving the news: The indictment says that the players engaged in a "scheme" to defraud the plan, which resulted in them submitting "false and fraudulent claims" that totaled $3.9 million, of which they received approximately $2.5 million.