Enter Gayle Gardner. Clearly the most visible woman sportscaster in America, the red-haired Gardner, an anchor on ESPN, has succeeded where George and Kennedy failed. How? One simple reason.

Two headlines within a couple of pages of each other in the sports section of a Barbados ... "Garner is the man for the job" proclaimed one, "Gayle and Garner a recipe for disaster" maintained ...

One centered on Gayle Gardner, one of the first women to rise to the high-profile position of sports anchor at ESPN and NBC Sports in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Behind the scenes ...