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Blundell, who was brought into the Twenty20 squad for the final match against Bangladesh earlier this month when Ronchi got injured, was the only newcomer in the ODI squad. Opening batsman Tom Latham is also expected to take the gloves at some stage as the New Zealand selectors look to build some flexibility in their team ahead of the Champions Trophy in England later this year. “It’s hard to replace the experience that Luke brings, but it’s good Tom Blundell got a small taste of the environment during the Twenty20 series against Bangladesh and this will be another opportunity for him in the squad,” selector Gavin Larsen said in a statement on Saturday....

Olajuwon Johnson, 25, of Bridgeport, has been charged with third-degree arson following an incident at the East End Yacht Club at around 2:30 p.m. on Monday. Scott Appleby, the city’s director of emergency management and emergency communications, told the Fairfield Citizen Bridgeport Police had received reporting a man with a can of gasoline on a boat. The 911 caller reported smelling smoke before noticing that a boat cooler was on fire....

“The tone of it was not what I intended. I intended it as a kind of sarcastic comment about this overall thing where everybody seems to be pointing toward the heavens for every accomplishment, large and small, or even for no accomplishment at all,” Costas told the New York Daily News. “I inadvertently appeared harsh toward Strop. That wasn’t my intention. And so I owe him an apology. And I will apologize to him (Sunday)....

Saget, comedian and star of Full House, was found dead on January 9th in his Orlando hotel room, with fans and authorities equally baffled as to what caused his mysterious death. At the time, many assumed it was from drug and alcohol use, or perhaps an undisclosed condition like Norm Macdonald, who kept his cancer diagnosis a secret until his death in September of last year. But according to Saget’s family, things are more cut and dry than expected, but that may make things all the more tragic....

Boca booked their place in the two-legged final by triumphing 4-2 on aggregate against Brazilian side Palmeiras on Wednesday, a 2-2 draw in Sao Paulo enough to follow up a 2-0 home victory in the opening leg. River’s place in the decider remains subject to an appeal from Gremio after last season’s champions were beaten in their controversial last-four clash, but Schelotto is looking forward to taking on his team’s fierce rivals in Boca’s 11th Libertadores final....

Phoenix police were alerted to reports of human remains being discovered after a woman riding her bike near Ashler Hills Drive and 40th Street came across the suitcase at about 6:45 a.m. on Saturday. Fox affiliate KVVU-TV reported the woman later returned to the area when there was more daylight and that she found a head and knee sticking out of the bag. It was not revealed how long she had been inside....

Boise State has not been this big of an underdog since visiting Oregon on Sept. 20, 2008. The Broncos also were getting 10 points in that game; they won outright 37-32. The Line: Ole Miss -10.5, Total: 53.5 Line movement: The spread has been back and forth between 10 and 10.5 for the most part, although some books have flashed 9.5. The total has fallen a full 4 points from CG Technology’s initial release of 57....

The U.S. and Colombia play the Western Hemisphere tournament’s opener on June 3 in Santa Clara, Calif. Coach Jurgen Klinsmann has set the semifinals as the goal for his side, which also faces Costa Rica and Paraguay in Group A. MORE: Evaluating U.S. after Colombia | Chandler out, Castillo in | Copa schedule Saturday’s match in Kansas City, Kan., is the third and final friendly for the American side. The Yanks beat Puerto Rico 3-1 and on Wednesday were tested by Ecuador....

The Spain international was the only player to sustain significant injuries in the blast, which occurred just prior to the Champions League quarter-final first leg with Monaco. Bartra suffered a fractured right wrist and required surgery to repair the damage, with the procedure going ahead without complications. Watzke: Table affects Tuchel future The 26-year-old has not played since the incident which resulted in the “longest 15 minutes” of his life, but he is now back in training after returning on Friday....

Bonucci, who signed a new four-and-a-half-year deal this month, saw his world turned upside down when Matteo was taken ill shortly after the Juventus and Italy star returned from Euro 2016. But Bonucci said things were now looking up for his son following a swift recovery from surgery. “[It is] the end of the fear that lasted from July until a few days ago,” Bonucci told La Repubblica. “For Matteo we now often repeat a mantra: you are our champion, you have won the most difficult game....

The Fox Sports analyst will retire at the end of the network’s portion of the NASCAR schedule following the June 23 race at Sonoma Raceway in California. It will likely be the last time the Kentucky native will utter his “Boogity! Boogity! Boogity! Let’s go racing, boys!” call to open a race. Waltrip is one of NASCAR’s storied characters, one of the first to build a brand around his supersized personality, and he parlayed it into a lifetime as one of the sport’s strongest ambassadors....

It was true that she had had a shock the other day when she’d bathed Stephen from head to foot and looked at his body standing in the tub like a classroom skeleton. She’d had to hold him up with one hand while she washed him with the other. His skin was stretched taut against the kettledrum of his pelvis. And hot—he was always hot and dry. He himself said he was “a dry twig on the edge of the bonfire....

The book is ornately divided into three sections, with three vantage points, their titles taken from what are familiar computer prompts and commands to modern office workers: “Can’t Undo,” “Replace All,” “Revert to Saved.” In “Can’t Undo” the voice is that of the communal “we” of the young pool of overqualified, undermotivated office workers—Pru, Lizzie, Jonah, Laars, “Crease”—who are floating through their mid-20s in a low-grade depression regarding their prospects....

Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) himself quite literally crashed into the home of YouTuber David Dobrik Los Angeles home to promote the highly anticipated new sequel—Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, to give it its full title. Dobrik and Borat is not a crossover anyone saw coming and the chaotic video has already been viewed more than 3 million times....

Gourvennac had been relieved of his duties on January 18, after Bordeaux slumped to a 2-0 home defeat at the hands of Caen. That loss, the club’s 10th in the last 15 games, leaves Bordeaux rooted in mid-table having seen a positive start to the 2017-18 season go up in smoke. They currently lie in 11th, with caretaker coach Eric Bedouet leading the side to a 1-0 victory over Nantes on Saturday....

The Brazilian has established himself as one of the up-and-coming stars of European football this term, netting 10 goals in 33 Ligue 1 games and reportedly earning a five-year contract with Bundesliga champions Bayern. And while Malcom insists he has no knowledge of such a deal, he would welcome the move. “I do not know, my advisors and I did not talk about [the contract],” he told Bild. “But if it’s true, it makes me very happy....

Get odds on Arsenal-Leicester The 24-year-old failed to make a single Premier League appearance for Arsenal after joining in 2010, with work permit issues seeing him loaned to clubs including Levante, Alcoyano, Ponferradina, Murcia and Almeria. Wellington returned to Fluminense in July 2016 but he has now been given another shot at European football after a deal was agreed with Bordeaux. Bordeaux also joked the club is in talks with Wellington’s fellow Brazilian Neymar, who is rumoured to be joining Ligue 1 rivals Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record fee of €222million from Barcelona....

7Park creates its ratings charts for SVOD based on a panel of 15,000 to 25,000 American households, and ranks shows based upon the activity of members of that panel. The data does come with substantial caveats: it only reflects the non-mobile viewing of American panel members who watched at least two minutes of a program on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, and/or Apple TV+. There are a lot of significant shows and services that simply aren’t shown in this dataset....