Just finished a phone interview with Sports Illustrated. It seems a reporter’s been tracking my piece of legislation and, after seeing the article in the L.A. Times this morning, he wants to do a story for their magazine.
OMG, what an unlikely connection: I don’t enjoy spectator sports (please pass the remote), and I’ve never even read a sports magazine! But hey, it’s all good, as long as the bill’s underlying issue gets the attention it deserves.
(Credits: The title’s a riff on a line in Legally Blonde.)
It’s a deep and MEATY topic – I can almost see the reporter rubbing his hands together. The more attention, the better.
Interesting. I’ve not really been thinking of the topic from a sports point of view.
Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome. Think of how many people this will reach… how many athletes (at all levels) will give pause and think about their actions/behavior/choices as they read the article.
I have chills….
Woohoo! You are famous! Your next book should be on this topic. You’ve certainly got the platform!
Congratulations, and good luck with the bill!
It sounds like a wonderful chance to get the bill more notice and make people start paying attention!!
that was me again – silly LJ – keeps loggin me off! lol
This is fabulous! The audience of SI is exactly who we want knowing about this legislation. Congrats!!
Awesome news, congratulations!
All great news for your bill! And maybe it will be more of a national issue once it starts to get more coverage. Congratulations again on all your hard work paying off!
“Playing sports is a privilege, not a right.” My favorite point in the article! So good to see that in SI!!!
Also, I didn’t realize how serious the crimes were! In the sports world, women have earned more respect as players, but on the sidelines, it’s still appalling – and this is one step in the direction of respect and consequences for not just “bad” behavior, but criminal behavior.
Great press! I live in a small town about 30 miles south of Fresno, and when I first saw the case mentioned reported on our local news, I knew it was a prime example of the need for your particular piece of legislation.
It may ‘sound horrible’ to think all sports recruits should be subject to DOJ background checks as well as criminal b/g checks in areas local to their home, but I can’t believe it would be as ‘difficult’ to do as the coach interviewed seems to indicate.
Frankly – those kinds of checks are routine for anyone who wants to volunteer in positions that put them in close contact with juveniles, so why wouldn’t it make sense to screen those ‘destined’ to become sports ‘heroes’?
Congrats on your SI interview!