Sports Business Journal:
At CBS’ March Madness press conference,
Lesley Visser said she met her
husband, Fox broadcaster Dick Stockton, when they were both covering the sixth game of the 1975
World Series—the classic Carlton Fisk game. He was a Red Sox broadcaster and she was a reporter
for the Boston Globe. Their second date was seven years later. They just returned from London
where they celebrated their 22nd anniversary. “We went to a museum to see, among other things,
the Magna Carta and five original Beatles lyrics, one written on a cocktail napkin,” Visser said.
Lesley Visser Received the 2005 Pop Warner Female Achievement Award: "Presented to one of the women who has demonstrated remarkable strength of character and leadership in attaining achievements in her life that inspire others."
THE LAST WORD: CBS' Lesley Visser, agreeing with Brett Favre's claim that he has changed a lot since his rookie year of 1991:
"When I first came to talk to you, you had two six packs and leftover Chinese food in your refrigerator."
– Lexington Herald Leader
Favorite thing someone said about her:
"My friend and GQ writer, Alan Richman, said I'm one of the only women who gets it that men don't want to be alone, they want to be left alone."
"She's the queen mother of female sports reporters..."
– The New York Times
BEST INTERVIEW:
Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre told CBS' Lesley Visser he has a "sophomore's heart and a senior's body."
– USA Today
"Visser inducted into New England Sports Museum Hall of Fame
"The journalist who shattered the gender barrier."
"Bill Belichick is worthy of being interviewed by both Lesley Stahl and Lesley Visser..."
– Boston Globe
Tempo – A minute with Lesley Visser: Visser is covering her 26th Final Four. Her best advice to anyone
interested in sportscasting? "Be authentic. If you don't know sports or don't love sports, pick something else—people at the highest level all know and love the game."
– Cincinnati Enquirer
Lesley Visser is the pioneer who blazed the path. "She set the ground work for all the women who want to get involved,"
said ESPN's Erin Andrews of Visser.
– The Capital Times
"It's appropriate that Lesley Visser should end up as the first woman on Monday Night Football—she's frank, confident, sporty. And what's more, she's real."
