However — and this is a big one — those were usually one on one interviews. There’s obviously not as much media, so it’s easier to do interviews in a hallway or somewhere. Were you to make professional sports players conduct interviews outside the room, the hallway would descend into madness — there’s not enough room, too many people trying to get to too many players all at once. And to parade them out of the room one by one would take SO much time.

The other thing to take into account is this: “As Ann Killion wrote on SI.com, “When Stanford played UConn in last April’s championship, if you wanted to see how devastated Jayne Appel was, you needed to be in the locker room. I was there. So were my male colleagues.”" (http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/39239362/ns/sports-nfl/) — The best stories don’t usually come from the remarks made at a table with a microphone, in front of a team banner. You don’t see the same emotion or get the same little details that you do from the locker room.

Now, as I understand it, at least some of what Ms. Sainz initially complained about took place along the sidelines at a Jets practice, so my no-locker-access plan wouldn’t address that, but it’s a start.

OK, forget the rape comparison — let’s try cancer. Is it cause and effect that if she dressed that way, she might get such remarks? Yes, much like it’s cause and effect “If you smoke, you may get lung cancer.” But did she deserve it? No, again, in the same way that no one “deserves” to get cancer, except at the basest level that they KNOW their behavior MAY cause it. Just because “common sense dictates” something doesn’t make it right. It means you can take the measures to prevent against it, and, sure, it does mean, in some ways, that you’re tempting fate (“asking for it” if you will) if you participate in that behavior. But after all of that, does that make it right, whether it’s smoking or catcalling (and whether it’s a football player or a construction worker)? Nope.

Now, let’s say this lady dressed like a whore is walking across the piatzza in Italy. Naw, forget it. You get the idea. Of course men will react. Common sense dictates, Don’t dangle raw meat in front of wolves and not expect them to bite. My guess is, that’s exactly the reaction she was hoping for. She got the headlines she was seeking..

But, let’s be clear…the comparison of female reporters in NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL/etc. locker rooms to male reporters in any female pro league locker room is beyond apples and oranges. The WNBA and the women’s pro soccer league notwithstanding, there is no “cause” for male reporters to demand access to female locker rooms because there are very, very few, if none, and it doesn’t compare to the access needed by any professional journalist, male or female, to the locker rooms of the major sports, which happen to be predominately, well 100% male.

I don’t know the specifics of this case and you soell out the predicament quite nicely, Angela. I don’t think female journalists need to dress down to resemble Helen Thomas to gain respect in the locker room, but there is no excuse, no matter how provacatively a woman is dressed, for professional athletes to behave as if a fraternity party has just commenced. If the players disrespected this female reporter, whatever her bonafides, they need to be reprimanded.