Word: locker
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Clearly, if athletes are allowed sanctuary in the locker room immediately following games, all reporters should be allowed inside to talk to them. A deadline a deadline, and sports teams need the media as badly as the media needs the teams. But why force self-respecting journalists to degrade themselves by chasing naked jocks around a musty, steamy, slimy den of vulgarity...
...dirty job, and nobody should have to do it. And athletes deserve their privacy, too--no one should have to change in front of a horde of male or female reporters. Imagine the uproar if a male reporter tried to enter a women's locker room...
...solution is simple. Have reporters submit lists of players they need to talk to after games. Have those players remain outside until their interviews are done. Let all the other players go to their respective locker rooms. Don't let any reporters follow them...
...Free Press this summer. Like Olson, Frey was verbally attacked by a chauvinist athlete--in Frey's case, Tigers pitcher Jack Morris. Like Olson, Frey saw the offending organization's powers-that-be scurry to join the anti-feminist bandwagon. But this problem is not solved by opening the locker rooms...
...want to be in a locker room, but the way it is now, I have to be if I want to stay in this profession," Frey said...