Meet the Woman Who ‘Went Viral’ for Supposedly Breaking the NBA’s Locker-Room Reporting Barrier
Jennifer Quale Interviewing Pete Maravich in 1979Image: AP/Times-Picayune When Jane Gross became the first woman reporter to enter an NBA locker room in February of 1975, it merited a mere 100-word Associated Press write-up the next day. Nine months later, when Jennifer Quale entered an NBA locker room, she had her face in sports sections across the nation and others across the globe. The first was a seasoned sportswriter breaking down a barrier; the second was doing one of the few sports stories of her career. Quale didn’t want to be a symbol of women’s liberation. She didn’t even want to...
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