Lesley honored as the first woman to win the Sports Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award
As the pioneering Sports Broadcaster, Sportswriter, Author and Mentor, Lesley becomes the first woman to win the Sports Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award
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“Lesley is not only the First, she is the GOAT.”
On “Ladies Room – A Deadspin Sports Podcast,” Lesley talks about being “the first” at just about everything, covering every major sporting event, and whether things have gotten easier for women working in sports media today.
Women’s History Month | We Need To Talk
The ladies of We Need to Talk discuss Lesley and other trail-blazing women of sports who have inspired them and made history as “firsts.”
Lesley moderates a conversation with Boston Globe Sports Editors
Lesley Visser discusses the Boston Globe sports pages over the years with its Sports Editors
Doug Williams on being the first Black QB to start a Super Bowl.
“I understood the significance of being the first Black QB to play in the Super Bowl. But I also looked at it from the standpoint I was the starting quarterback for Washington who just happened to be Black.” Doug Williams