I had no choice but to remain composed, unless I wanted to be labeled with the angry Black woman stereotype.
The XL Bully locked onto Beau Beau's leg and that was it
He shared a message board post with me."She seems like a nice lady," a man wrote,"but I don't like how she reads scores." He shrugged."I didn't realize you read scores any differently than anyone else," he stated. This extended beyond work hours to trips to the mall, movie theater, and grocery store. There were times I wanted to be defiant and rebel against having to be"on" whenever in the public gaze, but I knew I represented far more than myself. I had something to prove.
A local sports radio guy, the big wig in town, called and berated me after I aired a story about a popular head football coach leaving for a school in the Beaumont area. Was it that I followed up on his report or that the coach had been willing to speak to me and declined all other interviews that angered him?
Sports broadcast news is not glamorous. Sweating on turf fields where the temperature peaked at 115, being pelted by hail during rain storms, or my hands going numb in sub-freezing temperatures, then coming back to the station and putting on my face for the cameras was quite the demand seven days a week during football season.It was 102 that day when I covered football.
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