Paul Sloca

Way Out of Bounds

How an ugly incident prompted the Star's Mary Ormsby to tackle locker-room sexism

In 1985, Toronto Star sportswriter Mary Ormsby became one of the first women in the history of the Canadian Football League to report from players’ locker rooms. By then, Ormsby had been in dozens of male athletes’ locker rooms. In her four years on the job, Ormsby, then 25, had learned to accept the reality […]