12:37 AM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Two players key to Oakland’s future helped lead the Athletics to an important win. Sean Murphy and Marcus Semien homered, hyped pitching prospect Jesus Luzardo looked sharp in his major league debut, and the Athletics beat the Houston Astros 5-3. “What we are seeing from (Luzardo) and Murph
Month: September 2019
The Exploding Heads are back with this hilarious rendition of why VAR is not only ruining the game of football, but life outside of the pitch too. Premier League referees’ chief Mike Riley has accepted that there have been four clear errors with VAR since it was introduced at the start of the season. Riley,
12:57 AM ET ESPN News Services Arizona Diamondbacks ace Robbie Ray failed to make it out of the first inning Wednesday night against the New York Mets after a blister on his left middle finger opened up during his bullpen session on Monday. Ray was pulled from his previous start Saturday due to a blister.
Although it’s early days, the ESPN FC panel talk Romelu Lukaku’s time at Inter and how he’s changed since his disappointing time at Manchester United. MILAN — “This could be the team I need,” Romelu Lukaku said. Sitting in a conference room in Porta Nuova, Milan’s emerging business district, he was making the case that
8:44 AM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — Kole Calhoun had just homered, another routine blast on another routine afternoon. He jogged around the bases, crossed home plate and returned to the dugout stoically, expecting the habitual high-fives and tempered excitement. What he heard, from the surprisingly gregarious Shohei Ohtani, disarmed him. What a pop! Calhoun burst
11:19 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay walked through the locker room Wednesday, and upon seeing about 20 reporters and television cameras positioned in
Azerbaijan earned their first point of the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a late equalizer that cancelled out Luka Modric’s first half penalty. Nikola Vlasic takes on Slovakia’s defense by himself and opens the scoring for Croatia in a 4-0 away win. Romania scored twice in the first 15 minutes as they prevailed 4-1 over
Gab Marcotti and Nicky Bandini discuss Napoli’s summer transfers, in particular Chucky Lozano and Fernando Llorente. Napoli boss Carlo Ancelotti said he is “shocked” his club’s dressing room at San Paolo remains an unfinished construction site days before their first home matches of the season against Sampdoria and Liverpool. Napoli posted a video of the
11:37 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Todd Frazier and Jeff McNeil each homered twice, helping the surging New York Mets stun Diamondbacks ace Robbie Ray and beat Arizona 9-0 Wednesday night. The Mets (75-70) have won the first three games of the pivotal four-game series to move past the Diamondbacks (75-71) in
10:49 PM ET Unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez will be out of action for the rest of the year because of a left hand injury that required surgery combined with a packed fall schedule that left him without a date when he would able to return. Ramirez had surgery on his hand in