Female Sports Reporters In Male Locker Rooms

The women s locker rooms in the wnba are open to all reporters for a specified period of time both before the game starts and after it is over as locker rooms are in the major men s sports such as.

Female sports reporters in male locker rooms.

For women covering sports going in locker room was never about nudity. It was about access to the players. Coaches and other team personnel shouldn t be either. Women are always going to.

A male reporter asked coaches bep guidolin and fred shero as a joke if they would let women in the room. Boys will always be boys. A female reporter conducts post game interviews with members of a men s soccer team in the locker room. It just happened that the room was rather quiet at that moment no one talking but fairly busy with quite a few nude guys.

No one covered up or said anything. One day a young women wandered in to the men s room with her head down. There will always be the player who walks naked through the locker room to make the female reporters and the male reporters uncomfortable. The men s and women s locker rooms were ajacent and had very similar entrances.

Many noticed her come in. For point 2 that shouldn t be a gender thing at all. No media should ever be allowed in the locker room at any time male or female. Male reporters are in women s locker rooms all the time.

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. Ludtke and time inc. Has the same rules as the nba. Back then almost all sports reporters were men and access to the players as soon as they came off the ice was important to every sports writer because that s when the most genuine reactions and quotes were gotten.

Don cherry s views on women in sports locker rooms are his own. A few years back in the wake of the controversy surrounding the treatment of tv azteca reporter ines sainz by some members of the new york jets ann killion of sports illustrated addressed this persistent myth.