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MADem

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1. I don't think reporters of any gender need to be running around in the showers with the
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 11:47 PM
Feb 2013

players. But if you're gonna let one reporter in, you need to let them all in, assuming they are credentialed.

The most suitable way of handling this is to let the players bathe and change in peace, and then come out to a common area for celebrations/analysis and interactions with the media.

For the life of me, I can't understand why it is so important to crawl up the butts of athletes at every waking second. Yes, they are paid obscenely for playing "games," but that is what the market bears for that sort of thing. Having reporters and cameras in the locker rooms is just intrusive. I don't think it adds to any "understanding" of "the big game."

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