09-13-2010, 07:44 PM | #1 |
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Jets Sexually Harass Female Reporter
NEW YORK -- New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, addressing the alleged harassment of a female TV reporter Saturday at practice, told ESPNNewYork.com Monday that the team will begin interviewing players as part of its investigation with the league office.
"Right now, we're working with the league and we're doing all the fact finding, checking the facts, doing the interviews," Johnson said. "Interviews with the players will start [Tuesday]. We've talked to some of the non-players, but [Tuesday] we'll get into it all." The Jets open the season Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens at the New Meadowlands Stadium. Jets blog Jets Looking for more information on the green and white? ESPNNewYork.com has you covered. Blog Johnson said he called the woman, Ines Sainz of Mexico's TV Azteca, and offered an "open apology" to her. He also said he has interviewed "non-players" involved in the alleged taunting. "I called her the minute I found out about it, and I finally spoke to her later on in the day," Johnson said. "We take this very, very seriously, as you can imagine. We want all of our reporters, female or male, to be comfortable wherever they are, on the sideline, in the locker room or at a game. We have to make the working environment professional, representing the New York Jets well." Asked if he believes any of his players and/or coaches did something wrong, Johnson said: "I've got to make sure I know all the facts. There are no surprises I haven't heard about. But after we get them all, I'll let you know. "We'll have to look at what it all adds up to and how do we respond to it?" he added. "We certainly don't want any kind of allegations like this, or anything like this to happen. I apologized to her -- if anything happened, what happened, kind of an open apology." The NFL is looking into a complaint made by the Association for Women in Sports Media against the Jets after Sainz reportedly was subjected to footballs being thrown in her direction at practice and, later, players' catcalls inside the locker room. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league already has contacted the Jets. Sainz attended practice Saturday as a working member of the media. According to an account in the New York Post, Jets defensive backs coach Dennis Thurman purposely overthrew footballs to players during a drill for defensive backs so that the passes would land near Sainz on the sideline. Linebacker Jason Taylor, who is not part of Thurman's unit, volunteered to take part in the drills, the Post said. Jets coach Rex Ryan also got involved, according to the Post, when he had Thurman run a pattern near the sideline and intentionally overthrew the coach in Sainz's direction. Afterward in the Jets locker room, Sainz was reportedly greeted by catcalls and hooting. When a reporter approached Sainz to see if she was OK, lineman Kris Jenkins yelled, "This is our locker room!" Members of the Jets public-relations staff were present and did not discourage the behavior. "Of course you feel it when you are being stared at and when you are being spoken of in a certain way," Sainz told The Associated Press from East Rutherford, N.J., where she was covering the Jets-Ravens game on Monday. "I opted to ignore it ... I tried to not even pay attention." She had written about the experience on her Twitter account on Saturday. "I die of embarrassment!" Sainz wrote in Spanish. "I am in the locker room of the Jets waiting for Mark Sanchez while trying not to look to anywhere!" "It was an uncomfortable moment because you are in the team's dressing room and they are obviously changing clothes, showering -- doing what they do every day in the locker room," Sainz said to the AP on Monday. "So being a woman, obviously it was a bit uncomfortable." In a later Twitter post, she wrote, "Thanks all for your support and concern. I already testified before the NFL, and now is up to them to decide whether or not there will be consequences!" In comments published Monday by the Mexican newspaper El Universale, Sainz downplayed the incident. "In my perception, at no moment I felt neither attacked, nor that something rude was being done about me," she said, according to the newspaper. She indicated that she was not aware of the reported misconduct in the locker room. "I went into the lockers and there were comments and games," Sainz said, according to the newspaper. "A fellow journalist told me that he was very sorry things like that were happening, in the surrounding areas where, evidently, there were jokes being made about me." She did say that she spoke with NFL representatives and even shared what her crew had taped. But Sainz added that "at no time I even felt offended, much less in risk, or in danger of being in that place." Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum called Joanne Gerstner, a board member of the AWSM, on Sunday to discuss the matter. The two organizations were working to schedule an educational and awareness session with the team, according to Jets spokesman Bruce Speight. Speight added that he also addressed the situation at the team meeting Sunday in advance of New York's season opener. The AWSM said in a statement Sunday night that both the NFL and the Jets were "responsive to our concerns." On Monday, the organization issued another statement saying it was working with the Jets and the NFL. "If Jets players, coaches and staff allegedly involved in the incident are found to have acted in unprofessional and harassing behavior toward Ms. Sainz, we expect and demand reprimand and punishment by the NFL and Jets," the statement read. Acknowledging that an educational seminar will take place, the group further said in the statement: "We remain vigilant in holding leagues, teams, athletes and the media accountable and we serve as an advocate for all women in the business. AWSM also wishes to strengthen dialogue with leagues and teams to help elevate standards and maintain a harassment-free work place." |
09-13-2010, 07:50 PM | #2 |
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When I first read the article, I was kind of pissed that they'd act like that to someone just trying to do her job, but..... LOOK AT HER! Never mind the fact that she doesn't look like Andrea Kremer, look at how she dresses. It's hard to say she didn't have it coming or want it coming to her.
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09-13-2010, 08:07 PM | #3 |
love yourself
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DAT ASS WARNING
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09-13-2010, 08:08 PM | #4 |
Temporary
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LOL @ Rex Ryan
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09-13-2010, 08:20 PM | #5 |
I'm Mr. White Christmas
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I would sexually harass her
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09-13-2010, 10:53 PM | #6 |
King of Love and Piss
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This bitch wants to be harrassed. Come the fuck on.
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09-13-2010, 10:54 PM | #7 |
King of Love and Piss
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I'd rape her if she stepped on the field. I'd take my pads off. Pull my giant black cock out and rape the living shit out of her until pieces of her vagina fell off from such a pounding.
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09-13-2010, 11:02 PM | #8 |
the low Art Gloominati
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I'd eat her out like a Thanksgiving turkey.
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09-14-2010, 12:43 AM | #9 |
King of Love and Piss
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This bitch wants every fucking dude gangbangin her forsure.
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09-14-2010, 12:44 AM | #10 |
King of Love and Piss
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Fo SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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09-14-2010, 02:12 AM | #11 |
WHO DAT? NIGGA WE DAT!
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She juss mad they was tryna get in that ass
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09-15-2010, 03:13 PM | #12 |
Mas Vagina Porfavor
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I had never heard of her until this week, but holy shit.
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09-15-2010, 03:29 PM | #13 |
Hey Mister!
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It looks like she literally had pants tailored for her ass. Ridiculous.
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09-15-2010, 03:32 PM | #14 |
Pope Is Pimpin'
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09-15-2010, 09:10 PM | #15 |
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I am blown away by this picture. It leaves me speechless. |
09-15-2010, 09:17 PM | #16 |
Formerly Fausto Carmona
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I want to sink my teeth in her butt cheeks.
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09-15-2010, 09:23 PM | #17 |
Temporary
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I don't care about her skills as a reporter. So I want espn to hire her immediately.
She needs to be in my life a little more then she is right now. |
09-15-2010, 10:11 PM | #18 |
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Gotta add some more pics.
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09-15-2010, 10:14 PM | #19 |
Spammy Certified
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09-16-2010, 12:56 PM | #20 |
The Green Mountain Poster
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Rex Ryan is a cock.
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09-17-2010, 06:45 AM | #21 |
Sisukas Mies
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Crikey!
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09-17-2010, 06:45 AM | #22 |
Sisukas Mies
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Saw this a couple of days ago on the Daily Show's Moment of Zen.
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09-17-2010, 01:16 PM | #23 |
RAPTURE READY.
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she likes the harrassment. She likes it raw
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09-17-2010, 04:25 PM | #24 |
b/c 5 is better than 4
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This broad could probably stick a football inside her... she had everything she got coming.... and she loved every second of it.....
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09-17-2010, 04:51 PM | #25 |
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...What's a woman doing in a Locker Room full of men anyway? Have MEN cover sports. This girl just seems to me like the spanish version of Erin Andrews. You think she cares about sports? All she cares about is money and looking good.
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09-17-2010, 05:02 PM | #26 |
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The fact that she seems to have no bellybutton mildly disturbs me. |
09-17-2010, 05:04 PM | #27 |
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...this woman parades around in spandex jeans and poses in bikinis for pics and then talks about being "harassed"?
...bitch, please. |
09-18-2010, 08:07 AM | #28 |
King of Love and Piss
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Yah what is she thinking? All women who wear tight jeans and bikini's need to be sexually harassed. What a moron this woman is. Doesnt she know this ?
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09-18-2010, 03:44 PM | #29 |
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The fact that the people involved with this didn't get fined is pretty disturbing. Darnell Dockett gets fined for Tweeting too close to kickoff but Dennis Thurman doesn't get fined for blatant sexual harassment.
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09-19-2010, 04:17 AM | #30 |
TPWW's HHH Mark Since '04
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Roger Goodell is a piece of shit. He is a fucking scumbag and hypocrite. He wants to be everybody's fucking daddy in the NFL, unless you are in good with him. Remember when he destroyed all the Patriots "spygate" evidence before anyone else could see it?
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09-19-2010, 07:32 AM | #31 |
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09-20-2010, 06:50 PM | #32 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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