by Milton KentFiled under: Sports Business and Media
So, Clinton Portis really thinks that the main reason a reporter of one sex goes into a locker room is to check out athletes?
Mr. Portis seems to be suffering the effects of a loss of common sense and dignity and respect for others to do their job.
Portis did, at the not-so-gentle behest of the NFL and the Washington Redskins, apologize for his verbal misstep on a Washington area radio station Tuesday.
But in the midst of the fiasco at the New York Jets' training facility Saturday involving a female TV reporter, from TV Azteca, Portis' crack that "And I mean, you put a woman and you give her a choice of 53 athletes, somebody got to be appealing to her," threatens to further damage the already delicate dance that athletes and reporters do on a daily basis involving locker room access.
This issue is of particular interest to me on two fronts; one, as FanHouse's sports media writer, and two, as one of FanHouse's two women's basketball writers. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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