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Tuesday, May 10, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Women can sports write, too
Q: I understand you were the first women—in recent memory at least—to work on the sports editorial staff of this paper. How did it feel to be in this position of awesome responsibility, perilous power and athletic expertise?
A: Less than memorable. When I was a "normal" reporter and was wanted on the phone, I was so notified by someone screaming, "Courney, Phone!" Now they mumble "Sports Desk," and I'm supposed to send these condescending grunches
Wonderful the niceties that come with a title: free tickets, prestige, anonymity.
Q: HAVE YOU HAD to take much flack about being a woman in a man's domain? Do the men treat you as an equal? Do you feel respected?
Predictably, they still drag out all the crusty, clever comments concerning my ability, desire or alledged to charge into the team's locker room. They would sup-
with such little effort. Women have been writing sports for some time now. We also have a few of them.
opinion from labeling him (or her) as a city
designer or other stupid taster
Q: WHAT DO you see as your biggest accomplishment this year?
A. Very little. Possibly a slight increase in
A: I've heard enough cutey remarks to
not ask for some time. I thought the average
cutey remark is about 10 seconds.
Fifth Quarter Courtney Thompson
Associate Sports Editor
pose perhaps that I'm going to record everyone's intimacies in the recesses of my photographic memory for the plot of a future best-selling porno goodie.
Male sportswriters can be idiotic toadies
literacy in the sports page—albeit extremely slight.
Q: Would you explain that please?
A: Yes, I explain that well, beat a few teams, catch passes and throw
Netters to finish season at Big 8
The KU men's tennis team will close out its season May 20 and 21 when it travels to Oklahoma City for the Big Eight tournament.
Coach Kirkland Gates said yesterday that although KU wouldn't be favored, the 'Hawks still had an outside chance to capture the title.
"This is the best chance we've had at winning it since I've been coaching at KU,"
Gates said Oklahoma—last year's winner—would be the favorite to win the championship again this season, and Missouri would also provide stiff competition.
AS OF YESTERDAY, Gates had four of his six singles' positions filled. Bill Clarke, who will be ending his career at KU, will play No. 1, and Mark Hosking will be at No. 3.
Chet Collier, who has been one of KU's most consistent performers with a 20-10 record will be at No. 4. According to Gates, should be seeded No. 2 in the tournament.
Joe Ruysier, who came on strong in the latter portion of the season, will play at No. 6. Gates said that the sophomore from Shawnee Mission should be seeded second and that he had a good chance to win at his position. Ruysier is 19-11 for the season.
baseballes. I think anyone who is athletically inclined has sublimated, annihilated, lofted, poured in, retrieved the pigskin and riffed the old rawhide ad nuseum. Perhaps I only want to read the leaders—but maybe that's an improvement over lying them into a frenetic frenzy?
GATES SAID he would look at Greg
Buller, Jeff Thomas and Lennie Taylor and decide last week who would fill the
At doubles, Clarke and Hosking will play No.1, and Buller and Thomas will play No.2. The No.3 team will be Collier and Ryuuser.
A: Yes. I get the impression I was trained to being named "Sports Desk" and was supposed to be conversant only about some ding-a-ling who just set a record in the bathwater splashing competition and then set up a sporting feet sent me into periodic diders.
Q: DO YOU MBS'M being on the normal news staff? By that I mean reporting of the daily ditty about rampant crime, bangling or the city's latest posh place?
When thinking jock by day and writing accounts of the super heroes by night, little time is left to consider other happenings around me.
Unfortunately, I'm still interested in the goings-on of other-worldly things such as government, the weather and the city garbage problem. Because I enjoy sports doesn't dictate that I must experiencecessary about any and everything sporting.
The tournament will wrap up a fairy successful season for KU, which had a 19-14 repeat.
O: OVERALL, DID you like what you did this semester—would you do it again?
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