I have one of the few jobs where the first thing people ask about is penises. Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. But on top of it being my first foray behind the red door, I was scared because of who I was interviewing: a superstar with a surly streak. At the same time, though, I dont think getting a glimpse at a players brat and potatoes is included in the information-gathering process. 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 had to go in. But then Donna likes the men she meets at Baja. Should women be allowed in locker rooms? A three-part series on Ruth Ryan, spouse of Nolan, turned into a delightful three-week chore that included stops at the Ryans' ranch in Alvin and the stadium. Yeah. At the Burning Tree Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, women are only allowed to visit the club when? You know when the line has been crossed because you know about the culture that youve entered . Late one night in spring training, one of my co-workers, also one of my best friends, called to read me something. 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. "The Texas APME awards are out," he said. I wanted to cry each time he said that. We may earn a commission from links on this page. I was amazed. "The locker room is the place where us guys, us football players, we dress, we shower, we're naked, we're walking around and we're bombarded by media," he told NBC Chicago. Your job is sort of provide on-field commentary. [11] On February 24, 1992, her attorney said that Olson had settled the lawsuit on undisclosed terms. All I remember is green and light and the security of my daddy's arms. But the reality was, a newspaper did not have space for the words or freedom on the finer nuances of body-part language. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. Hell, why do these guys need to come into the locker room to ask questions anyway? 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 seems logical to me. I mean, I know how penises work. TAFOYA: You know what, though, timing is everything, and I think I sort of followed the floodgates that were opened by Lesley Visser and Robin Roberts. Theres a press area for that express purpose. 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. Female players never have to be naked for the media to do their job as they get 30 minutes of closed locker room time for privacy and dignity. David Cone, Wells's teammate, gave Olson and Marchiano Wells's address. (He was a recent addition to the team.) ", Because his reaction to my question was to begin raising his voice to say, "There's no time.". After five years as a sports reporter, she moved on to write about science and health, leaving the rest of the battle to Industrial-size hampers, home to growing mounds of moist practice jerseys, sit on each side of the cramped chamber in its Syosset, New York, training facility. Some nights I walk out the back door where all the wives are waiting, and they stare at me strangely, as though they think I'm the woman Cosmo warned them about or something. He got an apology from the Hyatt; I got suspected of prostitution while waiting in a hotel lobby for Grant Teaff. It was an exercise in concentration trying to figure out who was who, and while I was concentrating, unfortunately, I managed to sashay into an area that should have had warning signs around it. "A sportswriter, huh? I'll always remember that no one else laughed, for whatever reason, and that made me feel good. I never went near a bedroom with any of them, but I told him "a woman" because I didn't know how answering "18" to this loaded question would affect my precarious career. The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth., Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise. On Sept. 25, 1978, a judge ruled that women should be allowed to enter locker rooms. Most of the men I've dated certainly don't know about the social fraying of America or why it might be at all amusing that a guy named Fujimori is in charge of Peru, so you'd certainly hope they knew some inane facts about NFL rushers. 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. Franchises are increasingly fielding their own media teams to produce game stories and video interviewsmeaning more softball questionsjust as metro newspapers are cutting back. Ines Sainz: NFL Investigates Jets 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. She later was a columnist for the FanHouse sports website, and then a columnist for Sporting News. The balls with the signatures still sit on my mantel, most reading like the tombstones of major-league also-rans. It seems in those years I was the only writer who could converse with Julio Franco and Brian Downing. So I stepped down the tunnel from the dugout to the clubhouse and peered around the open door. ", Next to the entry door, there was a large poster of a shirtless Ruben Sierra. teams to grant her access and not all agreed quickly. The internet, magazines, and plenty of small family-owned businesses in the Philadelphia area offer the same experience. [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. Archival footage of Olson was used in the film, but Olson herself declined to participate in it.[13]. I ended up covering minor events full time, even doing the dreaded office score-taking work again. It might as well have been a water cooler. What does it really matter if the rest of the world knows? She had few female colleagues in sports media to lean on. (He later apologized in a newspaper ad, while denying using crude language. Originally published June 4, 1992, in the Dallas Observer. I've always considered the real hurdle of all this to be players' perception of me, not suppressing my thoughts. 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. After all, the story had just hit newsstands and restaurants and bars and grocery stores in the dead of the previous night. "You can't be in here now.". Melissa Ludtke was 26 years old when all this took place. Like other working people, professional athletes want to leave the office when their shift ends, so they waste no time stripping down to hit the showers. Gordon Robertson, locker room guard, stops Robin Herman from entering the Chicago Black Hawks locker room (January 1975). And this was so long ago that the guy who opened the door said lady in the locker room. And his eyes got to be like the size of paper plates because what I didn't notice was that he was buck naked. There were reporters all around the lobby of the downtown Hyatt, waiting for coaches to arrive after a golf game. Mike called me into his office and told me he was now "into it" for passing on the piece. TAFOYA: Let me tell you about my first time. But the point is that you don't even think much about people being naked after a while, and unless you have some peculiar reason for remembering, you don't know who you have seen naked because they all kind of waltz in and out of the shower naked, just one wet butt covered with soap film after another. 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. She is an American humorist and sportswriter who now does reviews for Publishers Weekly and writes for a variety of publications, including the Dallas Observer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, USA Today, and Sports Illustrated. SAGAL: And some of the players were like, wait a minute, we don't want girls in here. I've never been on any campaign to debunk the myth that testicles are somehow inherent to a full understanding of balls. [4] Robert Perryman did the same while her back was turned. SAGAL: B, George Washington himself went on a three-day bender there. As one of the first female reporters to be allowed inside the NFL locker room, she has been a pioneer in her field. 26 photos, First published on August 12, 2011 / 12:24 PM. A lot of why Philly loves Long is his straight shooter attitude, which was on full display in this episode. I asked. Now, one of the first all-men gentlemen's clubs in America was the Schuylkill Fishing Company of Philadelphia, a club that played a minor role in Revolutionary history when what happened there? Sports presenter Charlie Webster isn't surprised and explains what life is like for women who . I never told my friends. Ive noticed the female athletes still get a closed locker room to shower and change today. And then there's the guyalmost any guy in any bar in townwho subjects me to a sports-trivia quiz during the usual getting-acquainted foreplay. That sort of collegiality isnt obsolete in locker rooms, but real-time publishing certainly ups the danger of such humor being viewed out of context. I complained. The potential downside of the setting, meanwhile, is obvious: A poorly framed NFL Network shot this year showed Cincinnati Bengals players, pictured over the interview subjects shoulder, unknowingly giving viewers the full monty. The guys are much more formal in talking. And theres going to be cameras. Reporters do not need to be in the locker room. They will look at her as one of the guys if she doesn't act like a chick. When a guy is naked, hes probably more honest than not.. He said he would have me thrown out physically. So is it awkward for you? I was leaning against a post, waiting for Grant Teaff, holding a notepad. Raffy, Kenny Rogers, Kevin Brown had their little clique on the far side of the clubhouse. The little pranksters had used a bowl or something to draw a "circle slash" over Ruben's crotch. It's been 46 years since the first women entered a professional locker room when two female reporters were allowed to conduct after-game interviews in the locker rooms at the 1975 N.H.L. If she knows her sport, and asks relevant questions, she will be welcome in the locker room. 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. If the locker room is where athletes can be themselves, that change may be the most challenging. The only way a female reporter can do her job in a locker room is if the players dont look at her as a chick. 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! Bill, how did Michele do on our quiz? But I had a deadline. Last night's trash still blows, even though people are sweeping all over the place. Three female reporters were denied access to a NFL locker room this weekend, because of their gender. Herman said she slowly convinced N.H.L. Then it hits me: My job means I get to be around this game and write about it. But this was something else. A few minutes later he came back out wearing a towel. So you've been in the Mavericks locker room? My aim as a writer is to make the people I cover seem human to the readers. It was like putting the lid on something. He remembered me. I asked. When a guy is naked, hes probably more honest than not. instantly became the news and television cameras swung to them. I head down the steps, past the seats where I couldn't even afford to sit when I was a kid, open heaven's gate, and walk onto the field. I got nothing left. We're going to ask you about famous men's only clubs. The Herald editor offered her a position handling horse-racing agate. According to the Chicago Tribune, Briggs stands behind his comments. The immediate response is curiosity: Do I get to go in the locker room? It's like having a male gynecologistif he's fairly comfortable doing his thing, it makes the female patient fairly comfortable. I don't have a radio talk show yet, but I now make my living writing about sportsat the moment, mostly the Texas Rangers. Television. The Liberty Line is owned and operated by TLL Sports LLC. I was nervous the first time I entered the Rangers locker room, about seven years ago. An Ongoing Problem : Women Reporters Resent How They're Treated in the Locker Rooms By FRED LIEF Jan. 5, 1986 12 AM PT United Press International NEW YORK "If a reporter is duly and. So I didn't write. I began investigating the pay-for-play scandals of the Southwest Conference. (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? Some readers had similar problems accepting a woman. The media circus surrounding professional sports is fed in part by this particularly odd sort of press access. The other was a first-person piece about the last game at Arlington Stadium. Readmore, The Devils took Anthony Brodeur, an 18-year-old goalie, with the 208th pick of the 211-pick draft, sending their seventh-round pick in 2015 to the Kings in exchange for the chance to pick Brodeur. [1][3], After her graduation from college, she moved to the East Coast to attend graduate school, but she decided to pursue a career in sportswriting. 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. 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. Donna doesn't like newspapers either. He kept muttering. 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. And there, not 1,000 days after I had emerged from the darkness of the womb, hundreds of bright light bulbs made me squint as I watched the first half-inning of my life, the last three outs of a Spurs game. You're the person they throw down to as SAGAL: And you've got the reports in the sideline, well, this guy's injured, well, this guy feels this way. So you've got all these big-haired babes who think the electoral college is a beauty school, ready to hoist their miniskirts for the first athlete who comes along. Male reporters are allowed in locker rooms both before and after games. Specific. We drove to a mall in Santa Fe, and there were the boxes, taped, freshly shipped, in the front of the store. [4] One player, Zeke Mowatt, "fondled his genitals" in front of her. At the same time, my marriage began taking ugly, unspeakable turns. This was baptism by back draft, not fire. Its also awkward for all parties involved. I checked out Rey Maualugas locker, which resembles something out of that voodoo-worshipping slugger from the movie Major League. Samsung Pdf. TAFOYA: Oh, gosh. After a long game, while standing in the middle of the clubhouse waiting for someone to appear, I sometimes gaze off in one direction, the way you stare when you're bored and become transfixed on an object until your eyes cross and you snap back into the reality of car payments and cellulite. That did it; now they were ready to call the police. On Tuesday, Portis told 106.7 The Fan that both players and female reporters have wandering eyes when the sexes are mixed in a locker room setting. Leaking testosterone and reeking of beer, a Jethro Bodin-esque character sidles up and asks what I do. When I was 14, I heard from a friend that the Rangers would soon be hiring ball girls. Why? I just wanted to cover sports. Gerry Fraley of The Dallas Morning News was the only other writer in the press box. SALIE: Men, that was all men, that was all men, sister. TAFOYA: Well, you have to maneuver around that. "Just do your job, that's it," he told NBCChicago.com. Going to do my best. When Michael Palin of Monty Python's Flying Circus attempted to recreate the feat, he failed, came close, but he failed. And you won't believe this, and I swear it's true: the immediate response of three women who don't even like sports outside of bungee jumping at Baja is, "You've seen Ro Blackman naked?". And you know, they all say that word so well. 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 hate to invade their pain and their anger and sometimes even their happiness. If I did ever fall hopelessly head over heels for one of these men, it would not be because I had noticed a pterodactyl-size penis, but for the same reasons I'd fall for anyone else. Like a son telling his mom, Way to go, you made me proud.. Cindy, who is dabbing brown goop on my roots, figures this is like when the seniors get all reactionary and vote in the ugliest girl for homecoming queen, and it just might happen on a bigger scale. Heck, with 10 percent of the population homosexual, there's a good chance that some of the male reporters are homosexual as well. 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. I asked Reggie, as everyone watched and listened. Olson worked as a sports columnist for the Daily News for ten years. SAGAL: But I want to know how you got from there. It began when I was 3 and my daddy took me to Turnpike Stadiumnow Arlington Stadiumto see the old minor-league Spurs. I had started wandering longingly over to the sports department, just to talk about baseball. Or like Brandon Grahams locker is next to mine, and he has 40 reporters around him, and someone is bumping into my naked ass. It was time to go back to the dream. from NPR. It was like, you know, lady with a baby coming, lady in the locker room. She impressed her supervisors, and the paper hired her as a paid sports journalist. TAFOYA: I think one of the most - and again, I won't name names - but I remember doing an NBA game, and I was asked to go interview a player's wife in the stands about something. Maybe I'd never fit in. I broke several stories, one of which won a national award for investigative sports reporting. The documentary was about female sportswriters' struggles to gain access to male locker rooms in order to be able to do their jobs. SAGAL: The job of the NFL sideline reporter is three parts glamour, four parts grit and 10 parts fending off the advances of a randy Hall of Fame quarterback. Video marketing. I ran out of material 10 minutes ago. Take the blanket no-comment dished out by Dallas Cowboys star and alleged domestic abuser Greg Hardy after a game last year. Check out some of our favorites so far. Her tires were slashed, she received hate mail and death threats, and her apartment was burglarized. That's before they tell me I don't have any business in the locker room. When men gather at bars and golf courses and any of the other traditional salt licks for male bonding, do they ask the gynecologist what Mrs. Holcombe's hooters look like? Its basically the same interview, over and over again, Islanders forward Anders Lee said Monday, taking off his pads in the corner of the locker room. There are a lot of times I want to compliment a player or make a personal observation, just because it's my nature, but my nature has to change for a moment because I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression about my intentions. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. But by then I had gotten to know the sportswriters and broadcasters, and the Star-Telegram offered me a jobin sportstyping in scores and answering the phone. But how was I supposed to do my job with all that crap going on? I retreated back behind the door before anyone could see me. The next year, I was included as an honorable mention for two pieces. I dont really think about it. [6] Several of the players subsequently taunted her by walking naked in her presence, making vulgar comments and gestures. [5], On September 17, 1990, Olson was interviewing players in the Patriots locker room on a practice day. During the incident, Ms. Olson said a group of naked players crowded around her to. This is all very exciting. If I never went in a locker room, it would have been fine with me, Ludtke said. Nope, in fact, I was invisible. And I make a beeline for my guy that I'm going to interview, and I'm walking up toward him. 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. "He just doesn't" was suddenly sufficient and I knew a grown-up secret, like writing checks, making babies, or reading words. I did not want to smell the entire ride home, so I decided to take a shower. [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." It was very business-like. Standard Fraley, so no problems there. Girls in locker rooms are overrated. Portis said he thinks a female reporter who has the access to see male football players naked is bound to get turned on. I was doing another piece on the last day game at the old place, and I was in the dirt bowels of that poor old Erector set where many things, including skunks and raccoons, lived. The NFL is condemning remarks made by Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis concerning female reporters in the locker room. 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