Article: A dressing room dressing-down

Harold Ballard, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, has stepped up his battle with sportswriters over access to the team's dressing room.

Angered by an incursion by reporters into the off-limits dressing room after Wednesday night's game, Ballard announced yesterday that future interviews would be conducted in the team's weight room.

NHL president John Ziegler said the Leafs' 83-year-old owner was completely within his rights.

Reporters have been denied access to the team's dressing room since January, 1986, when Ballard refused to admit a female reporter into the dressing room. The media were banished to an anteroom nearby.

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