Daddy’s Little Phenoms
By PAT JORDAN
nytimes.com
Robert Howard is a doting father, a cheerleader kind of dad. He records for posterity his two daughters’ every achievement, every nuance of their lives, as he has done since they were 3 and 4, on film, on paper, on his computer. He punctuates each achievement, no matter how mundane, with exhortations: “Congratulations, Howard sisters! Excellent work, girls! Great job, girls!” Robert is proud of his daughters, but one overwhelming worry shadows his pride: he is waiting anxiously for them to grow. Robert is 6-foot-4. His wife, Gianna, however, is 5-foot-5. His daughters, Ginger, 13, and Robbi, 12, are not much over 5 feet. An average height for girls their age, but the Howard sisters are not average girls.
The sisters have their own Web site, gingerandrobbi.com, where fans can find everything they might want to know about them: their birth dates, their height, their interests (art, reading, educational computer games), their favorite sports equipment (Nike, Titleist, Callaway), their television appearances (“The Morning Show,” “The George Michael Sports Machine,” Comcast’s “SportsNet,” “Amazing Kids: Unbelievable Talents”). There are also, of course, the various photos of them smiling at a camera while holding up a trophy or swinging a golf club taller than they are. They differ mostly in the number of their trophies (83 for Ginger, 62 for Robbi); their amateur rankings for girls under 18 (No. 101 for Ginger, No. 288 for Robbi); (more…)
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Is it just me or do these girls look darker in the NY Times picture? I had to check several times to make sure I was on the right website.
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