Larry and Rosie have known each other for nearly 50 years! They first met when Larry, as a broadcast student at Sam Houston State University, interviewed Rosie at the Virginia Slims/Houston tour stop shortly after the historic “Battle of the Sexes" match with Billie Jean King and the late Bobby Riggs. A year later, Larry, as a member of the Houston Tennis Umpires Association, was assigned as a line judge to call her match. The association blossomed into a working relationship when Larry left Texas and relocated to Los Angeles after graduating. It was then that Rosie, and then manager, Shari Barman, gave him his first job in the “City of Angels” advocating and promoting professional women’s tennis.

​