He said he was 16. It was My aim as a writer is to make the people I cover seem human to the readers. And his eyes got to be like the size of paper plates because what I didn't notice was that he was buck naked. I pushed open the door and gazed into the visitors' locker room, a big square chamber with locker cubicles lining its perimeter and tables and chairs scattered around the center. This Is Why Female Sportswriters Can Go in Men's Locker Rooms Melissa Ludtke, a writer for Sports Illustrated, is shown on the job in her office in New York, Jan. 23, 1978, when she was. I know they don't know what they're talking about. Oh sure, they may actually think I'm an idiot. As I steamed over this, I took a shot of courage (a cold Starbucks Caf Latte) and pondered my circumstances. And I gained 40 pounds. I was down there to see the guy turn off the lights for the last day game. For most of the guys who hang around for more than three dates, my job suddenly becomes a problem. 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. They've both seen Patriot missiles up close." I got nothing left. It was like, you know, lady with a baby coming, lady in the locker room. I corresponded with them for another two years before the call finally came. It was at height of the womens movement, Herman said. 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. That first-person ode to Arlington Stadium was entered in a contest. The immediate response is curiosity: Do I get to go in the locker room? Or like Brandon Grahams locker is next to mine, and he has 40 reporters around him, and someone is bumping into my naked ass. She is a frequent guest speaker at schools and colleges, and active in public schools' mentoring program for girls who hope to study journalism. Mowatt was fined $12,500, the other two players $5,000, and the team itself $50,000, since no management had intervened at the time or immediately following. I was doing that one recent day when a wet, naked body walked into my trance. [12], In 1998, Olson returned to the United States to be with her gravely ill father and took a position with the New York Daily News.[1][9]. I went home and called my sports editor. Alabama Phenix. 26 photos, First published on August 12, 2011 / 12:24 PM. We never wanted for anything we really needed, but my parents, raised in the Depression, were cautious about spending. But I learned to do news as well. Others, including Michael Timpson, made jokes and egged each other on. Indeed, locker room access is built into players collective bargaining agreements with the four major North American sports leagues. "May I talk to you?" Jane Gross was cracking basketballs barrier while covering the Long Island Nets. Ms. Olson was reporting on the New England Patriots in 1990 when she was sexually harassed in the locker room. I could see my worth resided within the confines of a B cup and size six jeans. SAGAL: Here's your first question. There were reporters all around the lobby of the downtown Hyatt, waiting for coaches to arrive after a golf game. Alrighty then, time to search out the first player I wanted to talk toUSC quarterback Mark Sanchez. 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. It gets a lot worse than the predictable . What kind of a goob would they take me for if they knew? 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. "Can I stand here with y'all for a while?" By then, I had become accustomed to the nudity and byplay of the locker room. "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. 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. A female reporter conducts post-game interviews with members of a men's soccer team in the locker room. 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. 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. 2 min read Independent media will not have access to locker rooms during the upcoming NFL. 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? I've always considered the real hurdle of all this to be players' perception of me, not suppressing my thoughts. 1. percykins 7 yr. ago. But it wouldn't be my last. Olson is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and is a Hall of Fame voter. When a guy is naked, hes probably more honest than not.. Needless to say, this was a must-listen from the jump. But then Donna likes the men she meets at Baja. Sure.. I broke several stories, one of which won a national award for investigative sports reporting. The players were roaming around in towels or standing by their lockers speaking into digital recordersno one was smacking towels on butts, no one was making soap jokes. He said he would have me thrown out physically. I began experiencing panic attacks and became practically addicted to the antianxiety drug Xanax, buying it from bartenders and acquaintances when my prescriptions ran dry. You get a really honest reaction, and thats what makes stories good. The interview format is believed to have been popularized around mid-century by Dick Young, a New York Daily News sportswriter. They mostly acted like brats. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Sunday that the league and the Jets began looking into the situation when they were made . And yes, I was scared. from when she asked if he'd like brown gravy or cream. They were reporters and looked young enough to remind me of my old daysexcept they weren't wearing white flats. Yet all the time I was still dreaming up stories to get me to the ball park. Well, Reggie Jackson was my first. Sometimes we'd just watch any game on the TV. A large portion of a reporter's job is coverage of cultural aspects. The sexism row over a female sports reporter who was allegedly harassed in the New York Jets locker room was reignited last night after a Fox NFL analyst claimed she was 'asking for it.' And it was my first failure covering sports. The first thing I saw was four guys in a big shower. Like a son telling his mom, Way to go, you made me proud.. At first, I thought he meant on the job. It's the way we measure all people, the Homo sapiens equivalent of sniffing butts by the fire hydrant. Being in the national spotlight was difficult and a little Robin Herman, a gender barrier-breaking reporter for The New York Times who was the first female journalist to interview players in the locker room after an NHL game, has died. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. He said I was loitering. Before I could utter a word, he said, "Wait, let me rub it, it will get hard.". [2] She was the sports editor of her high school and college newspapers. The first time I saw The Best American Sports Writing, I wasn't anywhere near good enough a writer to gain entry into that elite company. SALIE: Men, that was all men, that was all men, sister. No less than two or three times a home stand, the feeling hits againalmost always as I walk down that tunnel from the upper deck that spits you out in back of home plate. 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. As it stands now, the NFL allows female reporters in locker rooms, but only after games. If you, as a grown man or woman, want to peep another adults private square, it doesnt need to be under the guise of a free and independent press. The next year, I was booted because I couldn't do back flips. Then he held my head over the top of the wall in center. Before a team got used to me, there might be some giggling each time someone made a smart remark or cursed loud enough to get you kicked out of the Watauga Dairy Queen. The following year, a federal judge struck down the MLB policy on 14th Amendment grounds. I should have told him how sad it was that he had to rub his own. SAGAL: And those pioneers were like, no, we're going, we're doing our job. I was certainly heartened when I heard about Robin, said Ludtke, who also now works at Harvard as editor of the Neiman Reports magazine. It's a place for changing attire and accessing personal belonging. As one of the first female reporters to be allowed inside the NFL locker room, she has been a pioneer in her field. 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? About 1986, there was a college football convention in Dallas. Teams and leagues barred female reporters from locker rooms over the following decades, robbing them of an increasingly important access point for player interviews. I knew they had accepted me when at a press conference after the Washington Huskies game, Pete Carroll walked into the press conference, made eye contact with a few reporters he knew, then looked at me and gave me a wink and a smile. I'm a general assignment sports reporter now, which means I do whatever they ask of me. James Donaldson was the very tallest, and I almost always waited until he had some small piece of fabric on before I walked back there. TAFOYA: There's another joke there, but (unintelligible). Brock Nelson, a teammate sitting next to him, chimed in: They get mad at us for giving the same answers. Players tear off equipment at wooden cubbies bearing their names and numbers, laughing about how Mel Gibson got ribbed at the Golden Globes. I'm no wimp; I can take a lot. On this day in 1977, Melissa Ludtke was barred from reporting the World Series from the teams' locker rooms. But of course, he hadn't lost Fluffy; he'd found a woman in his locker room. 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The exchange between Newton and Rodrigue rightfully spurred a much needed discussion about women and sports journalism, so I decided to ask three former NFL players to speak candidly about their views on women reporters. Then Kevin Brown left the team and that whole bunch became as nice as could be. When the day finally came that she would break down a huge professional barrier, Robin Herman did not have much time to prepare. "Are you going to talk to me or not?" I think you'd need to show that male reporters are not allowed into female locker rooms to show a double standard. 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. If my mom made us go to Wyatt's for supper, my father would wear his primitive Walkman through the serving line, once scaring the meat lady by hollering, "Dadgum Toby Harrah!" "Do you think I am a prostitute?" The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth. 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. I didn't want to be branded as some woman on a crusade. Couldn't you tell? We're sitting around the salon one day making bets on when the rest of the country will catch on that Ross Perot is a weasel when someone says he finished ahead of Bush and Clinton in another poll. Although Olson settled a civil suit, fans of the football team made threats on Olson's life in the aftermath. [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. He carried me to the back of the outfield wall and climbed the slatted boards with his right arm and clutched me in his left. He let me do it. She was a travel writer and at the end of a marriage, and we were traipsing around the Four Corners area. I was so pissed over that (excessive celebration).. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. After the game, he stood at the door of the locker room and told Visser, "There might be a naked boy in there, but I don't give a s___t." Several were guys who had been my superiors at one time or another and were just so gushing with their praise. 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. to that woman.". 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. 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. 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. [6] The general manager of the team was fired. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. Then there was Everson Griffen, an underclassman defensive end who will be a big name next year and eventually on Sundays. I refused to leave. Nudity rarely bothered me, but I prefer never to see Nolan Ryan in anything but Ranger white or bluejeans. I mean, I know how penises work. She faced off against the MLB commissioner and won access a year later, but the . Calvin Russell. Like the other night when I was interviewing Kenny Rogers after the game, and I just happened to notice he had really healthy-looking hair. A, on Women's Day which is a holiday named after a magazine. And I was entering the peak of a seven-year stint as the masked wrestling columnist Betty Ann StoutFort Worth's equivalent of Joe Bob Briggswhose unofficial duties included opening appliance stores, riding elephants when the circus came to town, and acting as rodeo Grand Marshal on the backs of large, hoofed animals. TAFOYA: And so if they come up with any other days of the week, I'll be happy to try those, as well. And here I'd been hoping for a controlled rollout on this thing. First Female Reporter In Nfl Locker Room. TAFOYA: I mean, you get to know every single coach and how he's going to respond to you in TAFOYA: that moment, and you just sort of brace for it. Or at least made me feel that way. 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 have assimilated to a large degree but probably never will completely. or "You haven't written any good stones in the last month. 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. ", I falter, and he complains, "Hey, I thought you said you knew sports.". The Downing part of it, as the guys who would later be a part of The Ticket said, was because, "He wouldn't hit a girl, so we'll go in behind you. The next year, I was included as an honorable mention for two pieces. In the arbitrary world of newspaper politics, the arrival of a new sports editor breathed life into my career. "Jenn," he asked, "do you want to be treated like an 18-year-old kid or a woman?". Your job is sort of provide on-field commentary. The Boston Herald offered her a transfer to Australia, where she would work for the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, which Olson accepted. Of course, Rader would have spat corn at anybody. 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. Except she. many of her friends were going through similar, if much less public, struggles in fields like advertising and law and medicine. He told me I had to leave unless I was staying at the hotel. He was thrilled to get an interview, and was so polite and warm, I didnt realize he was wearing practically nothing while I spoke with him. It was after the Iron Bowl, the big game against Auburn. 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. 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. That seemed like such a dumb thing to say. No sitting or leaning. She impressed her supervisors, and the paper hired her as a paid sports journalist. from NPR. Im at work! It seems in those years I was the only writer who could converse with Julio Franco and Brian Downing. published October 19, 2015. That being said, strip clubs and runway shows are completely different to NBA locker rooms. Fueled by my own version of a life-affirming experience, I felt as though I was taking back 10 years of my life. Heck, with 10 percent of the population homosexual, there's a good chance that some of the male reporters are homosexual as well. Olson later wrote a column apologizing to Wells for coming to his house during what was such an emotional time. There are plenty of women who have guy friends and have no ulterior motive in the friendshipcontrary to popular belief, women and men can co-habitate in extreme conditions. If you dont understand that, particularly as a woman, you might misinterpret it.. Long goes on to mention how most reporters would brush his concerns aside, which would honestly drive me nuts. The male athletes dont. TAFOYA: No, it is, but the emotional rollercoaster of being a fan, it's just not worth it. 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. Ken Dryden of the Montreal Canadiens talks to reporters in the locker room circa 1975 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. "I can't believe you are not in love with these men," she says, biting her cuticle. Except she and St. Cyr Vikings fans got to agree with that. It was critical no one smelled fear or I'd lose respect from the get-go. As of 2013, she was working as a freelance writer.[1]. . It wasn't Reggie or pro-locker-room banter. When a guy is naked, hes probably more honest than not. SAGAL: Actually, it was B with George Washington. Its a mind-numbing thing to experiencegetting complete wrapped up in a job and not noticing the other stuff around you. Michele Tafoya is the Emmy award-winning reporter for NBC's Sunday Night Football, but she's spent time on basketball courts, softball diamonds, gymnastics mats and now public radio quiz show game grids. Can the slump be permanent?". 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 Places in Arlington might not get it until mid-afternoon. 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