Here’s what Nathan Eovaldi said about playing at Minute Maid Park, having grown up in Alvin, Texas: “It definitely is very special to me. You know, growing up we watched a lot of baseball games here, and then travel ball and stuff we got to play a couple times. It’s real special to me.” Marly
Morocco ended a bruising international break with a 2-2 draw against tiny Comoros in Mitsamiouli as El Fardou Ben Nabouhane scored a 90th-minute equaliser to keep their Africa Cup of Nations hosts alive. The draw leaves Morocco on seven points after four matches, and they must wait until next month’s qualifier against Cameroon to secure
8:00 AM ET While the clouds continue to hover over East Rutherford, the sun appears to have peeked through in Florham Park. The New York Giants sit at 1-5 and in last place in the NFC East while their aging quarterback struggles. The New York Jets are 3-3 and realistically thinking of the postseason with
8:35 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. The dramatic turnaround of the Houston Astros franchise from historically bad — they were the second team in MLB history to have three consecutive seasons of at least 106 losses — to world champions in just five years has
8:09 AM ET LONDON — Derek Carr stood at the podium, talking and motioning solely with his right hand as his left shoulder looked frozen in place. The Oakland Raiders‘ $125 million quarterback kept his left hand in his pocket, almost as if to keep the arm and shoulder stationary, during his 11-minute media appearance.
7:00 AM ET Seth Walder Hank Gargiulo Close ESPN Analytics Data management analyst at ESPN Graduate of Sacred Heart University Any given Sunday … every quarterback has a shot to sit atop the Total QBR leaderboard. While QBs are most often judged by wins and losses or touchdowns and interceptions, we like to rank them
9:35 AM ET South Korea gave up a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw against Panama in a friendly on Tuesday evening. Park Joo-ho and Hwang In-beom put South Korea two goals up inside 33 minutes, only for Abdiel Arroyo to halve the deficit just before the break and Rolando Blackburn to pull Panama level
8:24 AM ET HOUSTON — Nathan Eovaldi is only the second-best pitcher ever who can throw 100 mph and hails from Alvin, Texas. That’s not an insult. The other one is Nolan Ryan. Alvin is a town of 26,000, located 30 miles south of Houston. A local highway is named, appropriately enough, the Nolan Ryan
8:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers navigated the 2018 regular season as a persistent enigma. They were loaded with talent and rich in depth, clearly and significantly superior to the vast majority of their competition. But sprinkled throughout their run toward a sixth consecutive division title were several mind-numbing stretches —
8:10 AM ET If Alex Bregman were homering as often as peak Barry Bonds, we wouldn’t say the Red Sox were giving him the Barry Bonds treatment. We’d just say Bregman was hot, or had somehow become as good as Bonds, and that no amount of effort on the part of Red Sox pitchers has