The versatile Dutchman has become a fringe figure at Old Trafford, with Jose Mourinho favouring other options across his back four and midfield. As a result, Blind has been restricted to just one minute of Premier League football since starting the first three games of the season. He has featured in the Champions League and Carabao Cup, but Van Gaal believes the 27-year-old should be looking for more minutes amid talk of a possible January switch to Camp Nou....

The first disorder screened in the 1960s was phenylketonuria (PKU). Some people still refer to this as the PKU test, but today numerous disorders are screened with this small blood sample. The purpose of the newborn screen is to identify inherited conditions, so that treatment may start early and prevent complications. There are several blood disorders that can be identified on the newborn screen. The testing is not exactly the same in all 50 states, but in general, most of these will be detected....

The video was originally taken four years ago but was shared to TikTok on Wednesday by the dogs’ owner, under the username Samwell.the.bloodhound. In the clip, the two bloodhounds can be seen barking and slapping each other, in what seems to be some sort of heated argument. The hilarious video was captioned by the dogs’ owner: “That last slap tho…” And further down in the comments section, they added: “It gets better each time!...

The right-handed reliever went 18 for 24 with his selections for Sunday’s program. That’s a 75 percent clip — not his best (he was 18 for 18 in 2014 and 19 for 24 in 2017), but still darned good. Also, one of the misses was on Kobe Bryant’s “Dear Basketball,” so points off for no cross-sport solidarity. Still, Axford, 34, continues to put his film nd TV degree from Notre Dame to excellent use: He’s at 79....

The 31-year old, who just inked a three-year, $36 million deal to join Toronto in the offseason, has struggled mightily so far for the Blue Jays. He has a 3-5 record with a 5.12 ERA and has walked a league-leading 41 batters so far this campaign. Kikuchi got shelled once more on Tuesday, this time against the Athletics. The former All-Star gave up five walks and four earned runs in 2....

Leave it to Costas to come up with one of the most intriguing ideas we’ve heard on how the NFL can handle protesting players such as Colin Kaepernick — while placating #BoycottNFL fans angered over disrespect of the American flag and national anthem. Costas, the 27-time Emmy winner, will host the pregame show for NBC’s portion of the “Thursday Night Football” package, along with Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy and two-time Super Bowl champ Rodney Harrison....

Tobias Harris and Boban Marjanovic, teammates since the 2016-17 season, have been split up. Harris just signed a five-year, $180 million contract with the 76ers, while Marjanovic has found a new home with the Mavericks. The NBA’s largest player (7-3, 290 pounds) agreed to a two-year, $7 million deal with Dallas on Wednesday. The two were traded together from the Pistons to the Clippers in 2018, and then from the Clippers to the 76ers in 2019....

Bostic was 16 in Dec. 1995 when he and Donald Huston, 18 at the time, robbed a group of people of Christmas presents being donated to a local family in need. Prosecutors said both men fired guns at the group, causing minor injuries, before stealing another woman’s car and robbing her. Huston agreed to a plea deal to spend 30 years in prison, while Bostic decided to go to trial....

According to a report from the sheriff’s office, authorities were altered to the situation by a 911 call from a teenager just before 12:30 p.m. The caller was one of three teens who arrived at the park around 9 a.m. to relax and enjoy the water. Deputies said that before entering the water, the two divers talked to the trio. After entering the water around 11 a.m., deputies said the two men resurfaced momentarily and spoke with each other....

Massaging the egos at Santiago Bernabeu and ensuring that everyone is pulling in the same direction has proven as challenging to the man in the hot-seat as tactical tinkering and team selection over recent years at the club. With a galaxy of stars at his disposal, Zidane has tough calls to make on a daily basis – and some of those decisions are not going to be universally accepted, something which past managers have struggled to deal with....

At a recent speaking engagement, Boeheim reportedly told a crowd of 300-plus employees at the Crouse-Hinds electrical store in Syracuse that the talent in that class made it one of the best classes ever. MORE: DeCOURCY - 2015 recruiting class is weak “I will tell you that next year’s recruiting class will be the best that we’ve ever had here at Syracuse University. That’s next year’s class — 2015. We’ve got four guys (who’ve committed) and we’re getting another, but I can’t talk about that....

The 100-pound chocolate Labrador retriever named Boogie ran most of the 13.1 miles in the Oct. 5 Evansville event after escaping his leash the night before. Owner Jerry Butts made an appointment for the dog to be neutered after the race to curb his wandering ways. The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/16kYycp ) that Boogie died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 10. Butts says on his Facebook page that the dog was a rascal and was "not being too shy to soak up the glory....

The revelation, Moore writes in her new memoir, “The Bishop’s Daughter,” was startling but not entirely surprising. Her father’s bisexuality was an “open secret” that she and her eight younger siblings had known for years, and that had been hinted at in the press and by members of the church. Still, the publication of an excerpt from her book in The New Yorker in March, detailing her father’s sexuality, created a minor scandal....

Hurt does the voices well: a roughened Midwestern growl for the expatriate the hard-drinking writer Bill Gorton, a credible Scottish burr for the even-harder-drinking Mike Campbell, husband-to-be of the beautiful, lost Lady Brett Ashley (more about her later), and a Greek accent just this side of cartoonish for the rich old bon vivant Count Mippipopolous. For the expatriate American reporter Jake Barnes, Hurt keeps the voice neutral—appropriate for a narrator—but with a bitter edge appropriate for a man literally castrated by a wound in World War I....

That’s the good news—good, as in nobody likes a quitter. The bad news is the novel’s no good. Frey’s first two books, including “My Friend Leonard,” strained credulity on almost every page—the dental surgery without painkillers, the lovable gangster in rehab who adopts the author. Such incidents, you kept thinking, must be true, precisely because they seemed so unbelievable. But when you put that same writer’s talents to work in a novel without the crutch of purported truth, things wobble between threadbare and preposterous....

Describing themselves as “four roommates who love art… and are indefinitely quarantined,” their Covid Classics Instagram account has garnered more than 45,000 followers since recreating their first painting, “The Death of Marat,” on March 22. Max Sutter, Jeannette Penniman, Cary White and Sam Haller live share a house in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, and together began self-isolating, following social distancing and other pandemic protocols established in March....

With Britain’s general election just weeks away, Johnson has unveiled a string of immigration reforms his Conservative party would put into place if he wins the December 12 vote. As part of his party’s platform, which is set to be revealed in full this week, Johnson has vowed to force immigrants arriving in the UK to contribute to its National Health Service (NHS) on “day one” of arriving in the country....

The treasury is reported to have agreed an additional £120m of additional funding for the scheme. It comes after footballer Marcus Rashford launched a campaign to get the government to change its earlier position which was to stop the scheme for 1.3 million school children as the school term ended. The prime minister’s official spokesperson said: “Owing to the coronavirus pandemic the prime minister fully understands that children and parents face an entirely unprecedented situation over the summer....