However, Young was also an early advocate of allowing female sportswriters to have full access in locker rooms.

The Patriots incident is the latest in a long history of sexual harassment of female sportswriters.

A place that employed a female sportswriter who, in off hours, raced Ferraris.

Ward, the leader of the team's Bible study group at the time, said he feared that female sportswriters would ogle him.

Asked by one of the female sportswriters to discuss the issue, Ward said, "I'm going to chapel," and left the locker room.

Yes, Samantha should be condemned for becoming the caricature of a female sportswriter on the prowl.

About 15 years ago, I saw my first female sportswriter in a locker room.

Ward's most provocative declaration of his beliefs concerned the presence of female sportswriters in the team's locker room.

It concerns me that when things like this happen, the female sportswriter is blamed; she's the one who caused all the trouble by being there.

If ever there were an argument for female sportswriters, this column has clinched the case.