Numerous new-media outlets have likewise gained access, leading to a ballooning locker room press corps and, in turn, limiting the exclusivity of any individual interview. All rights reserved. By that time I had moved east to cover the Phillies. I try to explain, which is difficult because Donna and I are on different sexual wavelengths. Samsung Pdf. The Boys Only sign wasnt on the door, but still, I could see it. Keep your eyes on your own work Super Chief. The bouncing, wide-eyed ball girl who wanted to write about baseball more than anything was gone, abandoned in increments on football fields, at locker room doors, in editors' offices, and on barstools. And there I was at the big red clubhouse door, dented and bashed in anger so many times it conjured up an image of stone-washed hemoglobin. So you've been in the Mavericks locker room? Once you have a live camera or microphone in front of you, youre a different person, says Eskenazi, who covered a variety of sports over his long career. I herby officially declare this behavior: Sign up for Parx Sportsbook and deposit $25 using code WOLVES69, Very real and legitimate journalist | Wednesday Guest Host of The Daily Ticket w/ Sean Brace from 3-6 pm on Fox Sports "The Gambler" | I don't see a loss on the schedule | @ryanconway76. That seemed like such a dumb thing to say. About two yards down, I see legs behind the batting cage. The TCBY people are pouring half gallons of yogurt stuff into the soft-serve machines; a guy is sweeping up peanuts in three-quarter time. There are postgame press conferences and media availability throughout the week. Some summers we went to 20 games; others we went to about 56. Or like Brandon Grahams locker is next to mine, and he has 40 reporters around him, and someone is bumping into my naked ass. Scoreboard: Caps Ovechkin Outdoes Pens Crosby and Malkin, Rangers First Pick Is One With Ties to the Islanders, Devils Work a Trade So They Can Select Brodeurs Son, Islanders Make Deal With Wild Before Selecting a Defenseman in the First Round. But I dont see any other solutions.. So I remain cautious, probably overly cautious, about appearances. So I stepped down the tunnel from the dugout to the clubhouse and peered around the open door. New York Times hockey reporter Robin Herman was a trailblazer, breaking down gender barriers by becoming the first female journalist to interview players inside a men's professional sports locker room in the U.S. On Tuesday, her husband former Times editor Paul Horvitz told the newspaper that she passed away from ovarian cancer. One day, she went unannounced to see an editor of the Boston Herald and asked for a job. It is funny. He ran into a dark office where I found him hiding under the desk. 1950) is an American sportscaster who worked for ESPN and NBC Sports beginning in 1987 until 1993. SAGAL: Because I remember - this was now going back 20 years ago maybe SAGAL: when the first female reporters were working major sports, and they wanted to go into the locker room and do the same damn interviews that their male counterparts were doing. Was I stared at? It was like putting the lid on something. 7 players remain on Eagles latest injury Danny Green provides new insight on Tobias Interview: Former Eagles Super Bowl Champ, Chris Long, Joins Tom Segura on Tom Talks. Or maybe into public relations. Tipped off to my presence, the coach broke into a near run when I headed toward him in the hall. But there's a strange sort of comfort in feeling that if they think I'm an idiot, it's probably not because I'm a woman but because I'm just acting like an idiot. They see how (or if) players interact; get some idea as to who's happy, who's not, and maybe find out why or why not. And a few guys maybe flounced around a little more just for brief amusement. Before I could utter a word, he said, "Wait, let me rub it, it will get hard.". Reprinted here with permission from the author, who has also provided an afterword about the response to her story. Chris Long on dynamic of naked players, reporters in locker rooms, New York Rangers fans took over the Wells Fargo Center and Im glad it happened, WATCH: Every pitch of Andrew Painters 1st inning vs. the Minnesota Twins, Eagles Buzz: CJ Gardner-Johnson rips Jonathan Gannon on Twitter for Super Bowl performance, Spring Training: Umpires end Orioles vs Pirates game early, but both teams wanted to finish, calling the game themselves, WATCH: Operation Flagship How D.C. Police Lured Wanted Criminals in for Arrest by Offering Super Bowl Tickets. In many ways, I had made a career choice when I walked through that locker room door. [Reporters] obviously need you to say some stuff so they can write their articles, said Islanders alternate captain Kyle Okposo, wiping his forehead with an already-drenched shirt. SAGAL: He left the Reform Club, traveled around the world in 80 days, came back, ran up the steps, but he was not wearing a jacket and tie. By Adrienne Jones. It was very business-like. She demanded the same access that male reporters had. Olson worked as a sports columnist for the Daily News for ten years. On Jan 21, 1975 she "broke the locker room barrier" as the first female reporter to enter a male professional league locker room (NHL All-Star Game) for post-game quotes. I've always considered the real hurdle of all this to be players' perception of me, not suppressing my thoughts. No reason being a modern love to prove she said her ideal, first female reporter in nfl locker room! As I stood outside the locker room, it hit me like a lightning boltwait a minute, Bill Plaschke was in there getting killer quotes and I wasnt! SAGAL: I was just thinking about with the NBA, it would be more difficult because you need to think about what would be at eye level in that situation. Later that year, Olson and Sam Marchiano were reportedly subjected to a profanity-laced verbal tirade by New York Yankees pitcher David Wells when they approached him at his home to comment on his sudden trade to the Toronto Blue Jays for Roger Clemens. She has also authored six books and was the first Texas Rangers ball girl. So what? I could see my worth resided within the confines of a B cup and size six jeans. Ludtke could gain access to baseball clubhouses to cover the World Series in 1978 and she wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Times when the New England Patriots were harassing Lisa Olson, a reporter for the Boston Herald at the time. I have one of the few jobs where the first thing people ask about is penises. ", Because his reaction to my question was to begin raising his voice to say, "There's no time.". I remember being scared because I hadn't known how the locker room was going to look or smell or who or what I would have to wade throughliterally and figurativelyto find this man. The telephone poll conducted this week among 1,026 randomly selected adults nationwide found 59 percent of 556 women and 47 percent of 470 men said female reporters should be banned from NFL . I dropped my plans to go to the University of Texas and study broadcasting. Nope, in fact, I was invisible. Once I stopped and they looked up, so I started spinning around in circles. Hell, why do these guys need to come into the locker room to ask questions anyway? We went to a bench just outside the door and began to look through it. For a minute, before I start to work, I smell the bubble gum in the breeze and look at the kids leaning over the dugout and the boys of summer in it. Standard Fraley, so no problems there. I kept saying, Im not the story; the game is the story,' Herman said, reflecting on the night. She impressed her supervisors, and the paper hired her as a paid sports journalist. Theres a press area for that express purpose. That did it; now they were ready to call the police. I spun around and walked outpast the staring faces, through the red door, down the 10,000-year-old bat-guano tunneland emerged into the dugout and the light of the real world, where I was nothing but a kid reporter who didn't get the story. I know people make sexual comments to one another, and they are not always inappropriate. I'll always remember that no one else laughed, for whatever reason, and that made me feel good. A new generation of sports writers has responded to this shift by increasingly using advanced metrics and digital tools to change the genre entirely. I can't remember the number of times I've picked up the phone in the sports department, answered some trivia question, and, when the answer didn't win the guy a bar bet, had the caller demand, "Put a man on this phone." I asked. And his eyes got to be like the size of paper plates because what I didn't notice was that he was buck naked. Ines Sainz: NFL Investigates Jets A, while he was gone, the club had viewed the classic Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch and decided Mr. Palin was too vulgar to be readmitted to the premises; B, he got back to London but couldn't be readmitted because he was poorly dressed; or C, he tried to drive himself to the club in central London but got lost? He. We got to Frank DeFord's comment at the end. I corresponded with them for another two years before the call finally came. We won some awards, and I gained some confidence and perspective. Raffy, Kenny Rogers, Kevin Brown had their little clique on the far side of the clubhouse. It was walking into the football locker room at the University of Texas in Austin and having a large man with burnt-orange pants and dark white face pick me up by my underarms and deposit me outside the door. I dont really think about it. Suddenly it all made sense: the way the numbers went across in a line on a scoreboard, what the three numbers at the end of the nine meant, even why the shortstop didn't have a bag. The NFL also sent a memo to all 32 teams in the league Thursday reminding them of its equal access and conduct policy toward the media. I complained. SAGAL: And those pioneers were like, no, we're going, we're doing our job. If you can do that, they will accept you with open arms, and, actually, be on their best manners when you talk to them. Bill, who's Michele Tafoya playing for? It seems in those years I was the only writer who could converse with Julio Franco and Brian Downing. But the most moving were the ones who said something along the lines of, "Well, I just want you to know, if I ever had anything to do with any of that, I'm sorry. My dream of covering professional baseball seemed further away than ever. Mortified, I pondered my attire (a baggy smock top and pants). NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. They were believed to be the first women ever admitted to a professional locker room. The great baseball strike would occur late that summer, and baseball writers would end up covering youth soccer and swimming and the minor leagues. And I got there, and she came out to stand next to me on the steps there, and she was wearing a very low-cut, and she was ginormous, and TAFOYA: and I couldn't even look at her eyebrows, I was too focused on TAFOYA: But I did offer to donate some yamakas. It is the sports leagues and teams that decided interviews were to be Guys just walk around naked, mostly, says Arizona Republic sports columnist Paola Boivin. Specific. Gordon Robertson, locker room guard, stops Robin Herman from entering the Chicago Black Hawks locker room (January 1975). Now Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris and linebacker Lance Briggs are the latest to chime-in. It's not a place for socialising. They will look at her as one of the guys if she doesn't act like a chick. The Lisa Olson Incident, 20 Years Later: Today is the 20th anniversary of the Lisa Olson incident in the New England Patriots locker room, when the female Boston Herald sportswriter was sexually harassed by players Zeke Mowatt, Robert Perryman and Michael Timpson. I mean, we know a guy is probably happy to be a number-one draft choice, but what makes him real is how he is like or unlike us. So, 35 years ago, Herman and another woman a Montreal radio reporter, Marcel St. Cyr gathered with other reporters after the game and walked in to conduct postgame interviews. Hey, this is pretty cool, I thought. Female sports reporters reveal the dark side to sport locker rooms FEMALE sports reporters reveal the dark side of reporting on male-dominated sports. The NFL is condemning remarks made by Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis concerning female reporters in the locker room. But instead, the man who is an idol to thousands of children launched into a verbal tirade loudly insulting my intelligence and shouting for someone to remove me from the clubhouse. SAGAL: B, according to the club rules, quote, "at the point in their menstrual cycle when they are least likely to attract bears," unquote. So I didn't write. Eskenazi recalls an episode from the New York Jets locker room in 1988, when defensive end Mark Gastineau pulled down his pants to show Eskenazi a tattoo on his hind quarters reading Gitte, short for then-girlfriend Brigitte Nielsen. And yet, 40 years after Robin Herman became the first female reporter to enter an NFL locker room, women are still fighting a war against rampant sexism in the industry, with Twitter. Phyllis George Brown, a former Miss America winner and the first female sportscaster to work at a major network, died on Thursday after complications from a blood disorder she had developed. And that gives coaches and players less control over the story., Still, for most mainstream sports journalists, venturing into locker rooms remains a basic necessity to stay competitive. He said he chose to run this piece in tandem with Roger Angell's piece because, all else aside, they were stories by a couple of kids who grew up loving baseball. Yeah, my ode to the old stadium won it all. Vikings fans got to agree with that. Late one night in spring training, one of my co-workers, also one of my best friends, called to read me something. But I was humbled by the honor. I said, "Well, you better get used to it now, because there are women all over clubhouses in the big leagues. And yes, I was scared. The media circus surrounding professional sports is fed in part by this particularly odd sort of press access. or "You haven't written any good stones in the last month. Reporter Beth Ruyak stands holding a mircophone in front the NFC Locker Room before Super Bowl XXV with the New York Giants against the Buffalo Bills. . She won numerous writing awards during her time with the Daily News, including "Best Sports Reporting" by the Society of Professional Journalists. It's also tricky when you give one writer a piece that showcases him or her in very many words and photos. Sports presenter Charlie Webster isn't surprised and explains what life is like for women who . Affirmative. Am I right? Long before I was allowed to eat fish with bones, could go all night without peeing in my bed, or understood Gilligan's Island wasn't real, I loved baseball. I was creative and funny, but I just couldn't write, they'd concluded. Once, after they'd let me try my hand at writing for a year or so, editors told me I'd never make a writer. It may have been his first night. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff) How could it be that it was 43 years ago when Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke and Time Inc., sued Major League Baseball for denying her access to the clubhouses at Yankee Stadium? I almost said matter-of-factly, "You know, Kenny, you've got a fine head of hair." "Can I stand here with y'all for a while?" He joked, he smiled, and he was a great first for me. She later was a columnist for the FanHouse sports website, and then a columnist for Sporting News. He could not allow me to bother the guests. The week after the Olson incident, Sam Wyche, coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, was fined one week's salary -- about $29,000 -- for refusing to let a female reporter in his locker room. Male reporters are allowed in locker rooms both before and after games. The immediate response is curiosity: Do I get to go in the locker room? A girl in the They didn't know, and it made me feel awkward that they didn't know that this stuff really didn't bother me outside of the fact that I felt obligated to respond with a remark, which took away from my ability to do my job. But I learned to do news as well. SAGAL: Michele Tafoya, ladies and gentlemen. Sure.. Leaking testosterone and reeking of beer, a Jethro Bodin-esque character sidles up and asks what I do. Its all weve ever known, right wing Josh Bailey, wearing a blue Islanders shirt, skin-tight compression shorts, and knee-high athletic socks, told me after a practice last week. Definite double standard here . But now it was late September, and my editor wanted me to interview Mr. October about what it was like not to make the playoffs. Point guards became my instant favorites for those early post-shower interviews. But the reality was, a newspaper did not have space for the words or freedom on the finer nuances of body-part language. I'm no wimp; I can take a lot. Slap Shot, the New York Times hockey blog, reports on the Rangers, the National Hockey League and anything that glides quickly across a frozen surface anywhere on the globe, from the snowy prairies of Saskatchewan to The reasoning behind this policy is that players are more likely to be relaxed and open with reporters after they have had a chance to cool down and take a shower. Actually, I tell them, one of the most peculiar side effects of my job is that it seems to run off men in personal relationships. Ludtke said when Show More. Readmore, With the 65th overall pick, the Rangers chose Adam Tambellini, a 6-foot-2 center whose father and brother each played for the Islanders. She is currently involved in a court case to allow women reporters in sports locker rooms. And I make a beeline for my guy that I'm going to interview, and I'm walking up toward him. One of the most sickening feelings I get is when I have to go interview some pitcher who's been shelled or some guy who is struggling at the free throw line or a coach who is on the verge of not being a coach. Later he admitted to calling her a "classy bitch. Sometimes before the game when everyone is milling about, I go sit around the corner in equipment manager Joe Macko's office and visit for a while just so I don't wear out my welcome in the room o' nakedness. The guys screamed at me and demanded to know if I was "on the rag" when I was surly; yet they could scream and be surly at me all they wanted. "Just do your job, that's it," he told NBCChicago.com. The most puzzled responses to my job come from the friends and acquaintances in my personal life. Yet I wonder. I began to rummage through the large boxes until I found the one with my publisher's name on it. Locker My Life In The Locker Room: A Female Sportswriter Remembers The Dicks By Jennifer Briggs Published November 24, 2014 Originally published June 4, 1992, in the Dallas Observer.. It was critical no one smelled fear or I'd lose respect from the get-go. My most innocent comments were greeted with sexual innuendo. It was the lonely thread that tied me to my game. During my first four years at the Star-Telegram I took one day off to model at an auto show and five days off to get married. And of course, women everywhere want to know about that great walled fortress of wet boy flesh, the locker room. I walked over to the corner where two guys from my hometown had their lockers. Several of the writers said, "I wonder what's up with that.". I left my stuff in the press box and went downstairs, sandals sticking in last night's gooey beer puddles as usual, as I entered the tunnel to the field. I can't understand the idiots who call the sports department and want to talk to a man on the phone instead of meor some guy who goes out of his way to spit Niblets on me. A large portion of a reporter's job is coverage of cultural aspects. He said this about three times. He still didn't answer my question directly. For most of the guys who hang around for more than three dates, my job suddenly becomes a problem. A male usher stopped three female journalists from entering the Jaguars locker room after their loss to the Colts because they were women, asking other men if it was OK before finally allowing . Long goes on to mention how most reporters would brush his concerns aside, which would honestly drive me nuts. He was home and reading stuff on the wire, as we called it at the time. TAFOYA: No, it is, but the emotional rollercoaster of being a fan, it's just not worth it. In I went into the world of major testosterone, stinky athletic shoes, and wrinkled jerseys, and out I came a different person. He had leis, candles, and the whole altar thing going on in his locker. I wrote about civil rights issues and roamed through abandoned warehouses alone in search of skinheads. He'd pull me out of school at lunch once a year to go to the spring baseball luncheon and take me to games early so I could collect autographs. The Boston Herald offered her a transfer to Australia, where she would work for the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, which Olson accepted. There were nights in the stands, too, where, just so I could enjoy the game more, my daddy patiently tried to teach the basics of scoring to a child not yet versed in addition. SAGAL: Now, why is that because being a reporter seems like a hard job? Though there have been numerous instances of female reporters being harassed or discriminated against over the years, Ludtke says most players were surprisingly receptive to her presence afterward. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. Hunter who killed, skinned pet dogs says he thought they were coyotes, Ex-Georgia star Jalen Carter was racing in deadly crash, arrest warrants allege. They picked threeCindy, because she was a perky cheerleader at the University of Texas at Arlington; Jamie, because she had modeling experience; and me, because I was a pest. He meant on the bed. His voice was growing louder. Donna doesn't like politics, so she asks what it is I do for the paper again. Dressed in a pair of virgin white flats, I trudged through the Arlington Stadium tunnela conglomeration of dirt and spit and sunflower seeds, caked to the walkway like 10,000-year-old bat guano at Carlsbad Cavernsdreading the task before me. She lives with three dogs in her happy bungalow in Texas. Jenny Kellner. SAGAL: Did somebody drop some profanity on you? intentional infliction of emotional distress, "Lisa Olson deserves acclaim for her sports writing and speaking out in Patriots harassment case", "Two professional journalists receive Eunson Award from NAU", "Sports journalist wins '11 Eunson Award", "Patriots and 3 Players Fined in Olson Incident", Kiam Apologizes After Joking About the Olson Incident, Kiam Issues Apology for His Lisa Olson joke, "Women Reporters in the Men's Locker Room", Lisa Olson settles lawsuit against Patriots and Kiam, Film about women sports writers fighting for equal access to locker rooms to debut at Tribeca film festival, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Olson&oldid=1136405132, This page was last edited on 30 January 2023, at 04:36. I had to think as much about how to handle the next unwanted advance or suggestive quip as I did trying to figure the Mavericks' averages. Indeed, athletes are increasingly coached on what to say to reporters in interviewsand what not to say. The one thing that keeps you focused in a locker room is simplethese guys are not wearing clothes, and the only way you can identify who they are is by face recognition. It would be the last day ever for those white shoesand my first of many covering professional sports. We've invited Tafoya to play a game called "Enter at your own risk!" The following year, a federal judge struck down the MLB policy on 14th Amendment grounds. Heck, with 10 percent of the population homosexual, there's a good chance that some of the male reporters are homosexual as well. Acceptance will be given if you represent your profession in the highest degree. Ludtke and Time Inc. filed a civil rights lawsuit months later. In the clubhouse, I was greeted by Rafael Palmeiro. I was ready once again to be the greatest sportswriter who ever lived. If reporters are usually allowed into locker rooms, then this reaction makes sense. first female sports columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, where she covered rugby union, Australian rules football, cricket and rugby league. NBA teams play 82 games a year, not including playoffs and preseason contests. She attended Apollo and Shadow Mountain high schools,[1] and graduated from Northern Arizona University's journalism program in 1987. Half the cost of the team's fine was to defray instructional materials the league could send to all teams and players, and Tagliabue wrote a letter to Kiam expressing his belief that the incident had "damaged" the league. So I went about my business. SAGAL: Here's your first question. Melissa Ludtke was 26 years old when all this took place. I had mentioned Kenny's hair in a story that had yet to even appear in some of the Observer's newsstands. It was important to be bold. The executive types weren't too hot on the idea. I used to write Dallas Cowboys columns in blue Crayola on a Big Chief tablet in the part of my sister's walk-in closet I had designated as the press box. Horse's Heinie on occasion, was watching a college football game in a chair in the middle of it allnaked. On cue, all the players in the Jets locker room got up and they all had the word Gitte written on their asses, he says. I was in the visiting clubhouse waiting to interview one of the Oakland A's this year when one of the players called, "Here, pussy"as though he were calling a cat. the frigid steppes of Russia and beyond, like, say, Phoenix. Steam Food Of Industry. ", I falter, and he complains, "Hey, I thought you said you knew sports.". The first thing I saw was four guys in a big shower. The Mavericks pose an entirely different set of problems. After all, the story had just hit newsstands and restaurants and bars and grocery stores in the dead of the previous night. In my three years away, I'd shed a husband, a house, a lot of weight, and a collection of unhealthy habits. [5], On September 17, 1990, Olson was interviewing players in the Patriots locker room on a practice day. Fox NFL analyst Brian Baldinger said Sainz was "asking for it," during a radio conversation, and Washington Redskin Clinton Portis put on an entertaining display when asked about comments he made during a radio interview, saying that when there are female reporters in a locker room, "I When the coveted Rangers beat came open, I was passed over. They knew I could write even the most boring stuff into something of interest. Mowatt walked up to her while he was nude and fondled his genitals as she was interviewing a teammate. But back in 1975, Robin Herman, a 23-year old reporter for the New York Times, had been trying to get NHL teams to allow her access to locker rooms for a year, with no success. 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