She later was a columnist for the FanHouse sports website, and then a columnist for Sporting News. They wouldn't let him in the club, so he finished his journey on the steps. But how can you really profile a guy if you haven't seen his coffee table or the junk stuck to his fridge? (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? Acceptance will be given if you represent your profession in the highest degree. Copyright 2013 NPR. The little pranksters had used a bowl or something to draw a "circle slash" over Ruben's crotch. By then, I had become accustomed to the nudity and byplay of the locker room. I had become a sweating mass of raw nerve endings. TAFOYA: I adored football growing up. The New York Islanders arent shy about giving interviews in various stages of undress. She was 70. Its a bizarre world that weve come to live in. I immediately got a call from Gayle Reaves, a founder of the Association for Women Journalists. TAFOYA: I was too focused on his eyebrows. And you know, that was the last I ever heard of it from anyone on the team. Herman, who is now assistant dean for research communications at Harvards School of Public Health, has written about that night many times, including a first-person article in the Times a few weeks later. Perfect. SAGAL: I thought I'd bring you on and see what you had. Not sports writing, but the best of every column written in the state that year. It was quite apparent who the poor influence was on that side of the barn. Sometimes I'd turn the sound down on the TV and try to do baseball play-by-play, too. Then there was the time we had a story about an SWC coach paying players, and I appeared one morning at the school where he was an assistant. When you've got dirt on them, all the condescending good-ol'-boy stuff goes out the window. It seems in those years I was the only writer who could converse with Julio Franco and Brian Downing. the frigid steppes of Russia and beyond, like, say, Phoenix. And blocked by virtue of being a woman Melissa Ludtke's landmark. Thats the life of a kicker.. He sobbed at his locker for 15 minutes after the game, as ESPNs Kevin Seifert wrote, later facing a gaggle of reporters. We've invited you here to play a game we're calling SAGAL: OK. Lisa Olson is an American sports journalist. God, I can't believe someone didn't warn me, I thought. This was baptism by back draft, not fire. Buying ball tickets to as many games as my dad and I wanted to see was out of the question, so we climbed the wall in the late innings or sat in those free grassy spots behind the Cyclone fence. "Can I stand here with y'all for a while?" 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. Oh sure, at first they think it's pretty cool that you're the only person at a party who can remember Neil Lomax's name or that you can name all the Rangers managers in 18 secondswith a shot in your mouth. Still, most professional athletes also realize that allowing journalists into their sanctuary is a part of the job. I mean, because if you sell out the coach, you never get to talk to them again, so I don't want to sell out the coach. I mean, seeing another adults peen by mistake isnt as bad as, I dont know, stealing someones cooking show, but I digress. 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. Like a son telling his mom, Way to go, you made me proud.. Good God, all I had wanted to do was cover sports. Were you a football fan growing up? Male reporters are allowed in locker rooms both before and after games. Apparently this happened at the morning budget meeting where "My Life in the Locker Room" was discussed at great length. 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. ", I falter, and he complains, "Hey, I thought you said you knew sports.". Gayle had heard the Fort Worth Star-Telegram higher-ups had had a meeting that morning regarding my continuedor discontinuedemployment. SAGAL: I got to ask you about the locker room. Summoners Value War. For instance, there are things I might say to a friend or even a casual coworker that I wouldn't think a thing about, but I stop short of saying such things to the players. Maybe I should write news or features because I'll never have the fortitude it takes to stay on your toes with one-liners and be tough enough to handle this. 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. Get two questions right, and you win our prize. During this phase of courtship, most men would be reassuring Lassie that her role as a dog star doesn't matter that they just like her nice, shiny coat. Answer (1 of 4): After reading Carrie Rickey's answer, I have to say that no one ever gets this story right. If reporters are usually allowed into locker rooms, then this reaction makes sense. The next day, another player told Eskenazi it was a joke. I have no idea why, except that Nolan Ryan and my daddy are my heroes, and I just have no need of seeing either one of their white heinies. It was mostly worn, ectoplasm-green indoor-outdoor carpetingand stares. Herman, then a 23-year-old reporter for The New York Times, had been trying for a year I like to think I've earned a little respect. [4] The Herald's then owner, News Corporation, offered to transfer her to Sydney, Australia, where she worked for The Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald. I told the PR guy that I sure hated to bring this up, but there was no place for the way this guy was acting. We laughed and remembered when Desmond Reed finally scored a touchdown and he lit up telling me, I couldnt even enjoy it. Players mostly accept that strangers will see them au naturel. The first Ranger I interviewed was drying his stomach with a towel. As I steamed over this, I took a shot of courage (a cold Starbucks Caf Latte) and pondered my circumstances. She was previously a sports columnist for the New York Daily News, and the 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. The players dont care, I dont care, heynobody cares! Horse's Heinie on occasion, was watching a college football game in a chair in the middle of it allnaked. I somehow persuaded them to open it and sell the book to me. They knew I could write even the most boring stuff into something of interest. In 1990, while working at the Boston Herald, she alleged that she was sexually harassed by New England Patriots football players in the team's locker room. New York Jets owner Woody Johnson personally apologized for the team's behavior. The balls with the signatures still sit on my mantel, most reading like the tombstones of major-league also-rans. Had all that I'd put up with just been for nothing? I try to explain, which is difficult because Donna and I are on different sexual wavelengths. My aim as a writer is to make the people I cover seem human to the readers. If he's uneasy, it's time to get out of the stirrups. Donna doesn't like politics, so she asks what it is I do for the paper again. Later he admitted to calling her a "classy bitch. A few minutes later he came back out wearing a towel. And while most nudity is off-camera and doesnt find its way to audiences, the shirtless, disheveled, or still-sweating sports star, facing an array of microphones in front of his cubby, has become an enduring image in sports coverage. [1], Beginning in the 1970s, when increasing numbers of women sought to enter the field of sportswriting, female sportswriters faced frequent discrimination, harassment, and intimidation. agree wrote: If a male reporter went into the womens locker room, all hell would break loose. All I remember is green and light and the security of my daddy's arms. Apparently a guy has to be awfully secure not to be intimidated by my frequent trips into locker rooms (as though I'm doing comparative shopping) or by my knowing a good bit about sports. Locker room interviews that take place after professional sports . He had a very reasonable take on how most players are butt booty naked when media members come in: Heres what Id ask, and I used to talk to Jeff McLane about this in Philly. The rumor was bogus, but it planted an idea. Or at least made me feel that way. I admit, some days even the UPS guy looks awful good. When I interviewed players, I found I had a much more personal relationship with them if I could sit next to them at their locker, says Gerald Eskenazi, an occasional CJR contributor who spent more than 40 years writing for The New York Times. I wrote management repeatedly. I was doing that one recent day when a wet, naked body walked into my trance. Now almost everyone had stopped watching football and was watching me and Reggie. Up until then, my assignments had been small-time: high school games and features on father-daughter doubles teams and Hacky Sack demonstrations. NFL Network Airs Interview With Naked Players In Background. In an interview on the March 11, 2011 edition of Bill Simmons' podcast, "The B.S. About 1987, I got crossways with the sports editor. Ines Sainz, a reporter for Mexico's TV Azteca doing a story on quarterback Mark Sanchez, had footballs thrown in her direction by a Jets coach during practice, and players later called out to her in the team's locker room. Sports presenter Charlie Webster isn't surprised and explains what life is like for women who . Should women be allowed in locker rooms? 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.. Television. We may earn a commission from links on this page. I was so pissed over that (excessive celebration).. I seriously considered taking a job as a researcher for a law firm. The male athletes dont. She has also authored six books and was the first Texas Rangers ball girl. I stood in the Coliseums tunnel and was hesitant. [7][8], Eventually, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue ordered an investigation under the aegis of former Watergate scandal prosecutor Philip Heymann;[5] the 60-page report concluded that Olson was "degraded and humiliated." he demanded. After a while, you just get used to nakedness and its all business. But there are still places out there where they believe in cooties, so Tafoya will answer three questions about men's-only clubs. I asked. I got in the car. But it wouldn't be my last. But I must tell you, I find that being a reporter is so much easier than being a fan. Two Patriots had complained earlier to James Oldham, the team's director of media relations, and to Pat Sullivan, the team's general manager, that they believed Olson was, in the players' words, "a looker," someone who stood around the locker room not interviewing anyone. OK, pre-game festivities concluded, I went back up to the press box to start writing some pre-game sidebar. I have assimilated to a large degree but probably never will completely. We got to Frank DeFord's comment at the end. 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. She was assigned to cover the Boston Bruins, the 1990 Super Bowl, and, beginning in the fall of 1990, the New England Patriots. By then I had researched what day shipment was due in bookstores. But I don't think it seems very logical to some of the other reporters. 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. Vikings fans got to agree with that. The players didn't know I'd grown up with games or that my best friends had usually been crude guys or that I could open a beer bottle with my incisors or that I liked to fish as much as they did. That being said, strip clubs and runway shows are completely different to NBA locker rooms. Hopefully we can ditch this weird practices permanently in 2022. In 2011, Northern Arizona University's School of Communication awarded Olson its Eunson Alumni Achievement Award. September 19, 2010 at 2:43 p.m. TV Azteca reporter Ines Sainz was uncomfortable with catcalls she received in the New York Jets locker room as she waited to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez . She had prepared for it by being in the first class of women admitted to Princeton and said They were happy to oblige. I asked one more time interrupting. Here I was in my white flats, some fresh-out-of-college madras plaid skirt, one of those ridiculous spiked hairdos with tails we all wore back then, and probably enough add-a-beads to shame any Alpha Chi. Yes, I was that excited. Take the blanket no-comment dished out by Dallas Cowboys star and alleged domestic abuser Greg Hardy after a game last year. 26 photos, First published on August 12, 2011 / 12:24 PM. bit scary, but I was very determined that this had to happen, not for me personally, but for all the young women who wanted to get into this profession. She is a frequent guest speaker at schools and colleges, and active in public schools' mentoring program for girls who hope to study journalism. when she asked if he'd like brown gravy or cream. Graduate. 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. Referring to the United States military's use of Patriot missiles during the then-ongoing Gulf War, Kiam said to the audience: "What do the Iraqis have in common with Lisa Olson? On Sept. 25, 1978, a judge ruled that women should be allowed to enter locker rooms. The Mavericks were a delight to be around even when pissed off. In 1973 she was hired as the New York Times' first female sports reporter. A simple no would have sufficed. But its the same answers to the same questions.. Her family were fervent sports fans. He remembered my chatting him up at lunch on Media Day, when I sat next to him and Brian Cushing and asked why the punt coverage was so porous with players not staying in their lanes, and how he was going to improve his turn over margin. Tipped off to my presence, the coach broke into a near run when I headed toward him in the hall. [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. 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. It began when I was 3 and my daddy took me to Turnpike Stadiumnow Arlington Stadiumto see the old minor-league Spurs. In the clubhouse, I was greeted by Rafael Palmeiro. I eventually walked over to Kenny, who was sitting on a stool by his cubicle. TAFOYA: But still, tune in each Sunday night. Donna doesn't like newspapers either. ", Because his reaction to my question was to begin raising his voice to say, "There's no time.". Covering major league baseball fulltime is my goal. SAGAL: Or C, Benjamin Franklin became the first and only member thrown out because of his horrible morals? Reporters dont wait for senators in the bathroom after important votes, or quiz the conductor of the New York Philharmonic as he puts on his cummerbund. 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. While all this was going on, I began helping out with Dallas Cowboys sidebar articles and weekend coverage of the Rangers. Thank you for visiting Slap Shot. When you've interviewed a 17-year-old mother whose daughter was stillborn for lack of prenatal care, how tough can it be to talk to a young pitcher who's lost to the Angels for lack of run support? "You know," I thought, "I doubt if any of them read the Observer.". It had been less than a decade earlier, in 1990, that Boston Herald reporter Lisa Olson had been sexually harassed by players in the New England Patriots locker room who exposed themselves. SAGAL: All right. Mike called me into his office and told me he was now "into it" for passing on the piece. TAFOYA: But you do that all the time, don't you? It might as well have been a water cooler. The next year, I was booted because I couldn't do back flips. Family trips in an egg-shell-white Impala to see the cousins in Plainview took fewer rough turns. or "You haven't written any good stones in the last month. Now, there are no F-bombs. 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." In 1975, the NHL allowed New York Times reporter Robin Herman into the men's locker room, making her the first woman to enter a hockey team clubhouse. Her work has been featured in the anthology, "The Best American Sports Writing". And every once in a while I think about slatted billboards and a daddy's arms. He sure wished he'd taken it, he said in hindsight. Or the periodic outbursts by Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook. Places in Arlington might not get it until mid-afternoon. A, Revolutionary officers hid inside from British pursuers who wouldn't enter because they were not members. If female journalists are allowed into male locker rooms, then either male journalists should be allowed in female locker rooms or female journalists should not be allowed into male locker rooms. Of the latest scores and many to. Hell, why do these guys need to come into the locker room to ask questions anyway? Team dressing rooms are typically open to journalists before or after practices and games. For most of the guys who hang around for more than three dates, my job suddenly becomes a problem. Create and promote branded videos, host live events and webinars, and more. Female sports reporters reveal the dark side to sport locker rooms FEMALE sports reporters reveal the dark side of reporting on male-dominated sports. TAFOYA: All right, Daniel. I understand that uniformsunless they say, "Eb, your man who wears the star" on the lapelare a great aphrodisiac in contemporary culture. They were believed to be the first women ever admitted to a professional locker room. So do you know about sports?" Once I stopped and they looked up, so I started spinning around in circles. It's a place for changing attire and accessing personal belonging. ' Herman said. He told me I had to leave unless I was staying at the hotel. 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. Indeed, athletes are increasingly coached on what to say to reporters in interviewsand what not to say. ", TAFOYA: I spent about eight seasons before that on "Monday Night Football.". But she still gets recognized as "the girl" who went in the. He could not allow me to bother the guests. And yes, he gave me a pat on the shoulder afterwards. I checked out Rey Maualugas locker, which resembles something out of that voodoo-worshipping slugger from the movie Major League. "A sportswriter, huh? I dont really think about it. Back then, almost 30 years ago, passion for the national pastime was an heirloom fathers passed to their sons. Women will kick up a fuss about men being in a women's locker room, and men should do the same with women. He kept muttering. SAGAL: And some of the players were like, wait a minute, we don't want girls in here. NBA teams play 82 games a year, not including playoffs and preseason contests. or "You wrote a good piece, Jenn, but then your headline writers let you down at the end; what does that feel like?" During the 1977 World Series, the MLB commissioner's office banned then- Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke from both teams' locker rooms, overriding the New York Yankees' blessing and a majority vote in the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse. Event marketing. But this was something else. 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