European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday january 11, 1991 r a x. X Pond scum scribes deserve respect a when Lisa Olson a sportswriter for a Boston paper,.was harassed and insulted by an athlete in a locker room and then by a group of athletes the Republic was stunned then outraged. Heads rolled. Players and owners were league dispatched a Harvard lawyer to go Over the testimony and affix blame. A a. One group of citizens believe their Good Luck a or their own eyes and ears. They were gratified a but not surprised. You Only the sex has been of journalists in the locker room is As old As the bunt and the hanging curve. It just never got to the supreme court before. To my knowledge the league never called Iti a Harvard professor to look into any one of the few Hundred thousand instances where a muscular athlete shouted at a stoop shouldered Guy with a Pencil a get outta Here a four eyed Geek before i stuff you in a toilet any sportswriter Worth his expense account has been shoved out of a locker room or cursed at by a professional ballplayer. It goes with the territory. Hie relationship is adversarial. Not always. There will always be a Stan Musial a magic Johnson or even a Steve Garvey or an Orel Hershiser to make your work easier even enjoyable. V a the incongruity is that the reporters Are often regarded As intruders. It never seems to Darr on the athlete that there is a one to one relationship Between the fact that he is getting. $2 million to $3 million a year and the fact that there is a press corps on hand every night to do a major Story in his comings and goings. A. A a a a a a _ there Are a Hundred basketball games in a Given area every night. But Only one of them has magic Johnson you go to see magic. Johnson play for the same reason you go to see meryl Streep act. You have been conditioned to it by reams of free publicity any other Industry would kill for. Baseball owes almost As much to ring Lardner As it does to babe Ruth. Football owes almost As much to Grantland Rice As it does to the notre Dame Back Finkl he immortalized. Boxing is As in debt to Damon Runyon As it is to Jack Dempsey. This has never been Clear to most athletes. And this was never More tellingly illustrated than by a Dewji Murray Book written by a colleague Gene Wojciechowski. Wojciechowski who has worked for several papers in his press Box career and who has seen the problem from both the High and Low circulation standpoint Calls his Book a Pond scum and vultures a in Honor of some of the More Choice epithets the representatives of the fourth estate have been called in the better locker rooms. 7 you can almost always Tell the beat writer a the journalist assigned permanently to one team in one. Sport a in the locker room. He is the Quot one with the resigned faintly martyred look of the Guy who knows he a been assigned to a Lions Den. Its his Job to walk the Fine line Between truth and Amity to Tell the Story of the cleanup hitter in such a Way that the Public will be informed and his own delicate relations with be olde slugger wont be damaged a and neither will his delicate features. It was a beat writer who listened sympathetically to the tale of the visiting writer Steve Fainaru who had just been royally chewed out by a Boston red sox outfielder Jim Rice and Fainaru decided he was fed up and Wasny to going to take it any More and would Tell Rice so As soon As he got out of the Shower. The Boston writer admiringly fingered Fainaru a stylish tapered shirt. A i really liked that shirt a he sighed. Fainaru shortly found out what he was talking about. When he confronted Rice the Boston outfielder grabbed his shirt front and Tore it off his Back screaming curses. Fainaru threw the remnants of the shirt at Rice a and it took the entire infield and Outfield of the Boston red sox to prevent a homicide. Unfortunately As a Wonov Points out in his Book this is More typical of the player writer relationship than any of those congratulatory Post game interviews you see on television. For one thing the regular reporter has to go Down and find out Why a game was lost. A Guy who just took a called third strike with the game a or the series a on the line is not Apt to make your textbook a and a subject. It has been likened to trying to take a pork chop away from a hungry lion. They done to teach you in journalism schools what to do when As happened to Cincinnati writer Jay Mari Otti a horde of husky ballplayers leg wrestle you to the floor and begin dumping the Post game meal on you. The league did no to hire any Harvard Legal lights to look into that violation of civil rights. Nor did they take action when a band of Minnesota Vikings slapped writer Dan Barreiro to the floor and began to wrap him in bandages like a Mummy. The whole City of new Orleans to say nothing of womankind generally was up in arms when quarterback Jim Mcmahon before super bowl xxx was reported to have called the women of the Crescent City a High priced but nobody called the cops when he blew his nose All Over reporter , Sim ers in a san Diego chargers locker room two years later. A you re not even Safe from coaches. Sports illustrated a Rick got chased through the streets of Phoenix and a hotel lobby by an irate University of Miami assistant coach Gary Stevens who began throwing his suitcase at Reilly and when someone retrieved it throwing it again. Indiana a Bob Knight once alternated Between calling the Washington posts John Feinstein a whore and a Pimp. A i wish Quot commented Feinstein a a he a make up his mind so id know which Way to dress.�?�. A Olson May have done everywhere a favor by calling judicial attention to the Lack of civility Between athletes and journalists in the workplace. The bulk of the evidence is that they need each other. Unfortunately Only one Side seems to have any grasp on this truism. A 7 have said journalism has a stake in sports. But sports has its entire poke Riding on journalism a to and print. It owes its existence to it. It owes its future to it. Its what makes sports several cuts above juggling unicycle Riding trapeze flying and elephant Riding in the marketplace. ,. The american and National leagues the Aba nil and nil have All turned Pond scum into billions and billions of dollars. We deserve something better than getting dead rats in the mail or the contents of the locker room Buffet dropped on us. Sexual harassment is Only the tip of the iceberg. Log Angela to my a. A scoreboard from Page 22 b06 Clarence Quot Bighouse Quot Gaines Winston Salomsa re. 1947-present 767 a Henry Iba Northwest Missouri state 193033. Colorado 1934 Oklahoma state 1935-70. 759 red diddle Western Kentucky 1923-64 746 a Ploog Allen. Kansas 1908-09, 1920-56 Baker. 1908 09 Haskell 1909 Central Missouri state 1913-19 a 724 a Hay Moyer Depaul 1943-84 700 Doan Smith North Carolina 1962-present 682 a Jim Phelan mount St. Mary a. Md., 1955-present. 664 a John wooden Indiana state 1947-48 Urcla 1949-75 662 Bromet Sullivan Southeastern Oklahoma 1937-67 a How women s top 25 fared How the associated press top 25 women s teams Lared Lor wednesday teams not listed did t play t. Henri state 11-0 beat Temple 93-55. 2 Virginia 13-1 beat no 12clemson81-75. 3 North Carolina state 12-1 beat Duke 96-84. 4 Tennessee 11-2 beat Alabama 861. 6 univ 12 0 treat san Jose slate 84-55 8 Georgia 11-2 beat South Carolina stale 10054 12 Clemson 9 2 tool to no. 2 Virginia 81 -75. 15 lbs 10-2 beat Mississippi state 79-56. 11 Western Kentucky 12-1 beat Murray state 7760 r 18 Connecticut 12 2 beat is John s 77-45 25 Oklahoma state 12 2 beat Missouri 81-60. Mcaa team leaders team offence g w l pts. 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