The Battalion
SPORTS 7
Tuesday, October 9,1990
Sports Editor Nadja Sabawala 845-2688
Enough already
about women in
locker rooms
x"ms a
female sports editor,
I have heard enough
about the women-
shouldn’t/should-be-
in-the-locker room
Nadja
Sabawala
controversy.
Everyone from my
mother to random
friends of my friends have asked
me what I thought about the
whole thing.
Should women reporters be
allowed into men’s locker rooms?
I don’t think so. On the other
hand, neither should male
reporters.
When an athlete has just
competed for hours, sweating and
playing to exhaustion, the last
thing he wants to worry about is
talking to the press. So they
shower, get dressed and slip out
the back door.
That’s the reason reporters go
into the locker rooms. Women
reporters don’t go into a locker
room to “pick up” men as it has
been quoted.
Texas A&M is part of a few
organizations that has eliminated
the problem of women in the
locker rooms before the
“problem” even started.
After a game, the team is
allowed a short cooling off
period. Then players, who are
requested by the media prior to
the conference, come out to talk
with reporters. It’s obvious that
some of these players don’t want
to be there, but they are there.
No reporters are allowed in the
A&M locker rooms, male or
female.
But there are still many
organizations that, unlike A&M,
allow reporters into the dressing
rooms. And most people are
aware that not everyone linked to
sports are as professional in their
character as their ability.
The start of it all
New England Patriots owner
Victor Kiam proved that. On
Sept. 17, Lisa Olson, a reporter
for the Boston Herald, was
interviewing players in the Pats
locker room. An unfortunate
incident allegedly occurred in that
some of the players sexually
harassed Olson while she was
interviewing comerback Maurice
Hurst.
Five days later, Kiam
supported the players’ actions and
called Olson a “classic bitch.” He
later denied he ever said that
about Olson and then he took out
full-page ads in Boston and New
York newspapers denying the
same.
(In my eyes, only the guilty
have to prove themselves
innocent.)
So, this locker room incident
probably would have just blown
over, had Kiam not made an idiot
of himself and publicised his
idiotic actions as well!
Now, it’s a hotter topic than
Southwest Conference re
alignment was this summer.
• Cincinnati Bengals’ coach
Sam Wyche excluded a female
reporter from the locker room.
• NFL Commissioner Paul
Tagliabue appointed an
investigator to find out exactly
what happened in the New
England locker room.
• Tagliabue fined Wyche
$30,000 for the aforementioned
barring of a woman reporter.
The end of it all?
What started out as an
unnecessary action by a few
immature Patriots’ players has
developed into a daily saga.
Perhaps a few rules and
changes may arise from all of this
mess and sports writers can go
about their jobs and sports figures
can go about theirs.
So if you ask me, I’ll tell you
... I’m not really that concerned
about it.
Athletes have a high turnover
rate: in one year, out the next.
Not so female journalists. Years
from now, when all those childish
football players will be watching
the new heroes on television and
reading about them in the
newspapers, we’ll be right where
we are now — reporting the
news.
Notre Dame kicked out of No. 1
Photo courtesy Notre Dame Sports Information
The Fightin’ Irish fell to No. 2 in the AP Top 25 poll after a 36-31 loss to unranked Stanford.
From Staff and Wire Reports
Last week, Texas A&M dropped
eight places in The Associated Press
Top 25 college football poll after a
devastating loss to Louisiana State.
On Monday, the Aggies dropped a
spot even after they won.
A&M (4-1) beat Texas Tech 28-24
Saturday, but still dropped to No. 20
in Monday’s poll. The Aggies travel
to No. 12 Houston this week.
Elsewhere, an early defeat didn’t
stop Michigan from an early rise to
No. 1.
Losses by last week’s top two
teams lifted the once-beaten Wolver
ines to the top of the poll. It’s the
earliest a team with a loss has ever
been ranked No. 1.
“It’s nice, but we’ve got a long way
to go,” coach Gary Moeller said. “If
we’re No. 1 at the end of the year,
then we’ll get excited.”
Michigan, which has won three
straight since losing its opener to
Notre Dame, replaced the Fighting
Irish as the nation’s No. 1 team. The
Wolverines moved up from No. 3 af
ter Notre Dame lost to Stanford 36-
31 and then No. 2 Florida State was
beaten by Miami 31-22 Saturday.
Michigan received 34 first-place
votes and 1,453 points from a na
tionwide panel of sports writers and
broadcasters. Undefeated Virginia,
See Poll/Page 9
Reds scuttle
Pirates’ try
to go ahead
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The
Cincinnati Reds broke their hit
ting slump and Zane Smith’s
magic on Monday to take a 2-1
lead over the Pittsburgh Pirates in
the National League playoffs.
Neither team did much hitting
in the first two games, combining
for only 10 runs and 23 hits. But
the surprise was how easily the
Reds got to Smith for a 6-3 vic
tory.
In 10 starts for the Pirates after
being acquired from Montreal on
Aug. 8, Smith gave up nine
earned runs in 75 innings. In
Game 3, the Reds got five runs
off Smith in five innings.
The power came from unlikely
sources, too.
Former Pirate Billy Hatcher hit
a two-run homer in the second in
ning and Mariano Duncan
snapped a 2-2 tie with a three-run
homer in the fifth and drove in
another run in the ninth with his
third hit of the game to make it 6-
3.
Game 4 is scheduled for 8:18
p.m. Tuesday night as first-game
See Reds/Page 9
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