DramatistDreamer

She was sued. Nadal was successful. Rafael Nadal wins defamation case over doping claims By the way, here is a proven doping case being played out right now.

Didn't she get sued for this?

At least this match will soon end. Yesterday's women's final was far more entertaining, IMO. EDT: Okay maybe the end may not be as swift as it looks as if one of Nadal's hands has cramped. EDT: Okay, I'm hearing it may not have been a cramp but the wrapping cutting into his circulation. Nonetheless, I truly think the match is over.

Both recently trained at Mouratoglu's academy and she Cori "CoCo" Gauff is only 14!

All the other countries said the G-7 summit was successful. I guess that was after Trump left.

Oh, of course I realize why Iva was 'put-upon', given the kind of backstory the character had, it would be strange if she had never seen her that way. What I take issue was the constant drumbeat of misery, especially when it seemed that the character had taken a different path. It just seemed like dumping her into an abyss of misery repeatedly was a way of creating something to do with the character at a time when story may have been 'thin' for her. Iva was never going to be a giddy character, even when she was with Kirk, she could be dour and tough and always pragmatic and she didn't need to be suffocated under a blanket of misery to achieve that. In fact, she had more of an edge in her early days interacting with the Kirk character than I'd ever seen her before or since on the show. EDT: By the way, I come from a long line of women who endured very hard lives (at least one is a rape survivor herself). Maybe because their lives were so tough, they made time and space to experience joy. Now, had Iva been bi-polar or diagnosed with clinical depression, that would have been a good aspect to explore and would have made perfect sense for going back and forth but it was never explored so I'm only left to assume that someone (maybe at P&G) wanted Iva in a near constant state of dour misery. Personally, I don't enjoy watching women constantly being tortured by life. Personally, life is hard enough as a woman in this world and as a Black woman? Whew!

Aww.

IMO Kirk was Iva's best pairing. In the very beginning they had that witty, sharp dialogue that I used to love to hear from HBS and GM's Tom and Margo (what we writers would call 'The Billy Wilder Effect'). They even had a bit of that combative repartée, the way John and Lucinda sometimes had. They were dynamic and in the beginning, Iva didn't have to play the put-upon 'heavy' as she had in other other relationships. It was a big mistake to pull them apart without them finding their way back to each other. If Kirk and Iva were going to be involved in a triangle (of sorts), I would've rather Marland wait for Sam, Lucinda's sister. Given Lucinda and Iva's acrimonious history, Sam becoming the interloper to Kirk and Iva's fraying relationship would've added extra interest. That pairing of Iva and Kirk put Iva in a light I had not been used to see her before--they sizzled. IMO none of Iva's other pairings had that kind of sizzle. I didn't even know the Iva character was capable of producing those kind of sparks! Wow, is there video online? I'd love to see that, LOL.

OMG at this photo.

Simona saw Wozniacki get hers and Sloane before that, so Simona was determined this year. The first two sets were very competitive and the third set was more about Simona holding off any nerves that might have showed up but Sloane wore herself out and Simona had more in reserve having had long runs on Chatrier before.

After all the depressing news out there this week, boy would I love there to be a never-before uploaded episode from the 80s appear on You Tube! That would be such a gift.

Apologies if this was posted previously, but Tika Sumpter has booked a lead role. Is Sonic the Hedgehog really that popular though? Tika Sumpter Lands Lead Role In 'Sonic The Hedgehog' Live-Action/Animation Hybrid Film At Paramount As for Rome Flynn, no doubt, it pays to be a resident of Shondaland. Rome Flynn Promoted To Series Regular For 'How To Get Away With Murder' Season 5

Giuliani always came across as an a$$hole (e.g. the brutal way in which his Law & Order agenda dealt with POC) but he was able to maintain his reputation of some integrity because of his prosecutions of the mob in NYC. I never had any respect for him. Black and brown people caught absolute hell during his regime and working class New Yorkers lost economic ground during his mayoral years. I suspect the tourists loved Giuliani because he capitalized on a downward trend in crime (that had already taken effect before he became mayor) and convinced them that the city had become "safe" because of him, while he helped Disney-fy Times Square (a policy that Mario Cuomo's administration actually laid the groundwork for) . As someone who had lived in NYC and got to read of and see the abuses of the Giuliani regime up close, I was glad that the city would finally see him out and I knew I would never vote to elect him for any public office--not even dog catcher. If anything surprises me, it's the level of greed and ingratiating behavior that he has exhibited. I never knew that Giuliani could lick someone else's boots with such alacrity as he has with Trump.

Between that and Giuliani's comment about Kim supposedly getting down on his knees and begging for the summit between the US and North Korea to go on, I suspect that Giuliani has become quite the liar.

She's gonna have to fight Sloane for it, LOL. I hope to see a good battle and not what I just saw in the 2nd SF.

I am still mostly indifferent about the entire C-gate situation (though I already stated that I have never used the word and don't like it) because I assert that both these women are as far from marginalized as one can get and both can surely take care of themselves but I came across this on social media and thought it was interesting and I know there was strong debate about this situation in this thread, so perhaps others may find this interesting too.

Oops this page has become so monster that my eyes are liable to glaze over when I see links by themselves.

I wonder if this will get back to Kim.

Is it possible that the rain delay might benefit Schwartman as well as it will Rafa? Yeah, probbably not.

I read that McCarthy's district is on a list of some GOP areas targeted to be flogged by tariffs. Let's see how that affects his political fortunes.

By the way, the deadline for a NAFTA "deal" to be voted on this year (with a Republican-controlled Congress) has run out. Also, it seems to be the height of insanity for the U.S. to be trying to negotiate separate trade deals with all these countries.