The match ended a compelling Wimbledon, which SI.com's Jon Wertheim said highlighted not only Federer's greatness but also the unmatched fighting spirit of Serena Williams.
But for spectacles, this matchup was not one to be highlighted, not with a terrible team hosting another poor team engulfed by the worst scandal of the year.
As the BBC's Tim Davie has previously highlighted – not just for commercial radio but the entire industry – the average amount of time people spend listening to the wireless is on the decline.
The need to debate these questions well in advance of the BBC's charter renewal in 2006 is highlighted, not only by the Hutton inquiry, but also by the publication last week of Bruce Page's The Murdoch Archipelago, about the tentacle-like power of News Corporation, the owners of Sky.
This needs to be highlighted not simply in large randomised trials that compare very heterogeneous tumour types, but in individual cancers or at least small groups of tumours that can be characterised biologically.
The successful identification of the metal binding protein, MT, is highlighted, not only due to its critical biological functions, but also because the blind microarray approach provided advantages over cloning methods that require significant sequence similarity to isolate genes.
