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The weekend’s top shots from the Canadian tennis tournament, leading up to today’s finals

Minutes after the tennis star’s Wimbledon win, ads were out

Does Djokovic’s rise to the top of the ranking spell the end of the Nadal-Federer era?

McEnroe is still taking big shots, a twittering Scot, and McIlroy sets his sites on No. 1

A Botox backlash in Hollywood, Alanis Morissette on Alanis Morissette Day, and is Wyclef Jean shafting Haiti’s poor?

From 2009: Purists hate it, but what’s a guttural outburst (or several) in a great tennis game?

Barack Obama: the musical, Kim Jong Il’s cook, and the unexpected panda pregnancy

The best pics of the last seven days

Two years ago a friend who loves tennis, Roger Federer and David Foster Wallace (in that order) made me read “Federer as Religious Experience.” I’d never read anything by Wallace, found dead Friday of an apparent suicide. I’ve been hooked on Federer ever since. If you like tennis, Federer or Wallace (and especially if you like all three) you should read this.

 

La première étoile: The entire nation of Spain! Viva Espana! Spain Spain Spain! Land of fine hams and lovely weather! Also, really good at soccer! Hurrah!

First Star: I nearly failed grade nine french, and I already have to deal with the indignity of knowing that the Habs are a solid young team, getting better, while my Leafs are a terrible team committed to get worse before they begin to improve, so excuse me, but on Mondays this section is going to be called “first star.”  (Plus, I don’t know how to make accents on this keyboard.) Anyway, the first star today is Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas who led his team to victory over Italy yesterday making several key stops, including the one you’ll see below, and stopping not one but two penalty kicks to decide the game.