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Article: There's No Story In the Locker Room
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 14, 1990
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Trouble came to a local football locker room and who is rounded
up to investigate but a Harvard law professor. Perhaps his expertise
is the law of the jungle, which appears to have been the prevailing
ethic when Lisa Olson interviewed some New England Patriots football
players. The Boston Herald sportswriter claims she was sexually
harassed, saying the naked men gathered around and threatened her.
Boston's editorial writers, columnists and investigative
reporters-a huffing pack to begin with-threw so many flags on the
play that soon the national media swooped in. A $2,000 fine to a
Patriots tight end was followed a few days later by a $30,000 hit on
the Cincinnati Bengals coach who ...