Two of the nominees, the Oscars and the Kennedy Center Honors, gave awards to Meryl Streep, so: If Meryl Streep winning an award can win an award, can Glenn Close losing an award lose an award?
John Isner, meanwhile, is the standout local hope, coming off three straight wins over top-10 players and an impressive performance in a close losing effort against Nadal in the Cincinnati Open on Sunday.
Saturday in Nevada, he kept the race close, losing by just five points in a state where he started behind by fifty-four pointhein the state's first poll last year.
They fell in the best-of-seven series, 4-2, but had battled to keep it close, losing two games in the 11th inning, and struggled through oblique injuries that hampered Delmon Young and Victor Martinez, in addition to losing Magglio Ordonez with a freak broken ankle, early in the series.
Two weeks later, at the inaugural slalom of the season, at Levi, in Finland, Shiffrin, taking a lead into the second run, again failed to close, losing by a tenth of a second to a Slovakian, Petra Vlhová, of whom Eileen had recently said, "Petra skis like Mikaela more than Mikaela skis like Mikaela".
But when you have an important meeting or a deal to close, losing your seat can literally cost you.
