1 post from July 2007

Children programming will not be on this morning.

That was the crawl message shown on WBAL, which is showing the Wimbledon final. That only raises the question of whether you should tell the kids that every other station will shows cartoons or whatever goes as children programming these days. Of course, we already know what the station won't do, and it's a moot point when the children know what's on every station. But it's a moral dilemma of sorts.

That's my lead-in to comments on the Wimbledon women's final, which Venus Williams seems to have in control against Marion Bartoli. I feel old. There's your commentary. I just remember when she was on "60 Minutes", which was doing a profile of her, sister Serena and father Richard. The girls were definitely pre-teens at the time. Now, Venus is 27, just now picking up her fifth Wimbledon title and her 14th Grand Slam altogether.

Even though she's five years younger than I am, my impulse is to think of her as if she was a child I've seen grown up. It's probably like people who grew up seeing Ron Howard -- he's Opie one day, the next day, he's an accomplished director and a grandfather.

During the awards presentations, the broadcasters on the NBC telecast mention, "man in her life". Yes, my head turned. Like an proxy parent (even though both of her parents were at the match), "What's man!"