On that same hand, the Phillies showed a lot of life last week, sweeping three games in Atlanta and then winning the first two of their four-game stop in St. Louis. Many expected that road trip to be the end of their dalliance with contention, but it most definitely wasn’t. The success might have shifted the thinking in Philadelphia’s front office, especially for general manager Ruben Amaro. “Everybody figured that after this road trip, we’d be done,’’ Amaro told USA Today....

Philly thought it had come back to beat the Marlins in the ninth inning on a bases-loaded single by Hyun-Soo Kim. Replay review took the “winning” run off the board. That led to an amusing scene: Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon and Phillies personnel plucking celebratory gum packets off the infield dirt. The Phils couldn’t score after play resumed, and so the game dragged into a 15th inning (thanks to the ridiculous Rhys Hoskins’ tying homer in the 10th, his second dinger of the night)....

That’s what worries companies like eBay–and the dozens of others that have been targeted repeatedly by these attacks. In Olechowski’s case, he called the online auction house just to be sure, and discovered to his surprise that the e-mail he’d gotten had been legitimate. But few consumers will take the time to check an e-mail’s authenticity with a phone call. As the prevalence and sophistication of these phishing scams continue to grow, companies that do business online–and who doesn’t these days?...

What a dump! The Phoenix Solid Management Facility rises low and sleek out of the desert, draped in bougainvillea VW and supported by an exposed steel truss nearly 300 feet long. Most sanitation plants hide their operations from public view. This one is transparent, with large windows and a catwalk that opens the activities inside to visitors. Part Frederick Law Olmsted, who redesigned New York City’s Central Park around a muddy quarry, and part Frank Lloyd Wright’s “organic architecture,” the Phoenix recycling center is making design history of its own....

Unlike other troubled pros, Busch is getting yet another chance to clean up his act and get his career back on track. Ray Rice appears to have no future in the NFL. Greg Hardy, one of the NFL’s best defensive linemen, has no team even as football sees a flurry of free-agent signings. And Adrian Peterson is under contract with the Minnesota Vikings, thought he doesn’t want to play for his longtime team and it’s unclear whether he will....

NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) Ayton, who is averaging 16.8 points and 10.6 rebounds per game this season, has missed the past three games with a sprained ankle sustained in the win over the Pistons last Sunday. Ayton has been so good on both ends of the floors this season when he’s been healthy he must be, at the very least, in consideration for a reserve All-Star berth, but overall, he has missed 18 games this season....

Photographer Roman Fedortsov, who works on a fishing trawler in Western Russia, shares photos on his Instagram page of some of the strangest deep-sea catches. Last week, Fedortsov shared a photo that made his 652,000 followers cringe. A photograph of a crab with what appears to be a set of human teeth amassed nearly 10,000 likes on Fedortsov’s page. Along with the picture, Fedortsov wrote in Russian, which was translated by Instagram, “Crabs… Still, there is something attractive and repulsive about them....

The 41-year-old daughter of the former president showed that she was at Brazil’s 2-0 win over Serbia on Thursday, and it was enough to send some into a spiral on the internet. After announcing that she will not be part of her father Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, she joined her husband and sons, Joseph and Theodore, at the Lusail Stadium, in Lusail, eastern Qatar, as they were pictured meeting Qatari dignitaries....

Putin, who is believed to be about 5 feet 7 inches, was photographed alongside students of Lomonosov Moscow State University during a visit for Russia’s Students’ Day, or Tatiana Day. The images appear to show Putin wearing shoes with extra-thick heels to boost his height. Jason Jay Smart, a correspondent for the Kyiv Post, shared a photo from Putin’s Wednesday visit, pushing the body-double theory. “Putin wears high heels. He does it whenever he is with groups who ‘should be’ shorter than he (5'7”/170 CM)," Smart tweeted....

Maxwell is on trial accused of grooming underage girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004. She has pleaded not guilty. The U.S. Department of Justice released the photograph of the couple’s visit to the queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland among a number of other images of the pair, as prosecutors sought to build a picture of their relationship. The photo shows Epstein with his arm over Maxwell’s shoulder, while she has a hand on his knee....

“Tornadoes and high-end severe wind events are sporadic, and individual events are not harbingers of worse severe weather seasons,” Center for Severe Weather Research President Joshua Wurman told Newsweek on Tuesday. “It is very challenging to forecast severe weather more than a couple to a few days in the future….Just because we may have a warmer-than-normal or wetter than normal spring or summer does not mean more severe weather. A hot day, even a hot moist day with thunderstorms, might not produce tornadoes, because some of the other tornado-favoring conditions aren’t present....

On Monday night, USA Gymnastics said in a statement that Biles, “has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue.” But shortly after, an unnamed Team USA coach said that her exit was due to a “mental issue she is having,” according to an NBC broadcast. Shortly after it was reported that her exit was because of a mental health issue, Morgan posted a tweet that said, “Are ‘mental health issues’ now the go-to excuse for any poor performance in elite sport?...

These creations tower over the plate–and fall to pieces when a diner attempts to actually eat them. Juice squeezed from tomatoes, clarified and used as a consomme Often served with chicken or seafood. Lightly flavored bread. The water or milk used in the dough is steeped in herbs or other flavorings (tomato water, maybe?). Fancy name for a cooked spud hit with a heavy mallet. Finn, white-fleshed fish (no doubt unfashionable because overfishing has endangered the species)....

The pink dove was taken into care after it fell into an industrial container of coloring pigment, leaving it a bright shade of pink. The avian is alive and well and currently in the care of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the U.K. Naturally, the charity has nicknamed the bird Pinky. “It’s always good to have a variety of colors of animal in,” said RSPCA Oak and Furrows in Wiltshire, England, in a Facebook post....

The bowl announced its cancellation on Twitter, citing “an abundance of caution” amid rising coronavirus cases in the U.S.: “The priority of the Yankees, New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Big Ten and ACC is the safety of players, coaches and staff, and this decision is consistent with that approach. We look forward to hosting the New Era Pinstripe Bowl with an enthusiastic crowd filling Yankee Stadium in 2021.” MORE: Bowl projections after Week 12...

Coast Guard Captain Rebecca Ore said Tuesday that divers determined about 4,000 feet of the pipeline was “laterally displaced” by about 105 feet, the Associated Press reported. Ore said the pipeline had a 13-inch gash in it. It is unclear what caused the split or the displacement. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. Officials said Monday that they were considering whether a ship’s anchor might have caused the oil spill that has fouled beaches in Orange County....

The Blaugrana are closing in on securing the Liga title and could yet finish the season unbeaten, with their form meaning they sit 15 points ahead of the capital club. Madrid’s disastrous first half of the season even threatened their chances of qualifying for next season’s Champions League, but a Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired resurgence has at least ensured they will avoid that embarrassment just a year on from winning the title themselves....

McCutchen won the National League honor by a surprisingly wide margin after leading a baseball revival in Pittsburgh. He drew 28 of the 30 first-place votes from members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Seated in a sweater and tie, a smiling McCutchen juked a sort of stationary shimmy when his name was announced on MLB Network. "If I could get up and dance right now I would, but I don't have much room to do that," he said....

How crazy? We’ll let shortstop Alen Hanson’s work with a selfie stick on his Instagram post tell the story: MORE: 10 greatest Pirates of all time | A brief history of Pirates’ dugout celebrations The Pirates’ Triple-A affiliate now advances to the 2015 Governor’s Cup championship , where it will face the winner of the series between the Norfolk Tides and the Columbus Clippers for bragging rights as the best team in the International League....