Pro Football

The Boston Globe, after obtaining sworn statements and other documents compiled in the case, reported that there were inconsistencies in reporter Lisa Olson’s accounts of sexual harassment in the New England Patriots’ locker room on Sept. 17, 1990.

The incident led to fines against the team and three players--Zeke Mowatt, Michael Timpson and Robert Perryman. Olson, who worked for the Boston Herald at the time, later moved to a newspaper in Australia.

Bob Sales, the Herald’s executive sports editor, criticized the Globe for reviving the story. “Why The Boston Globe would devote four pages to a classic blame-the-victim defense is beyond me. Is Desiree Washington next?” Sales wrote, referring to the Rhode Island woman whose rape charges landed fighter Mike Tyson in prison. “Isn’t it time for the people involved to put it behind them and get on with their lives?”