Locker Room

The former Folcroft Borough manager on trial for allegedly planting hidden cameras in the police locker room told the courtroom yesterday the female officer caught changing her clothes on video put on "a good show. " "You are telling everyone that Officer Leslie McLean knew the cameras were there?" said E. Marc Costanzo, a senior deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania. "Yes, she knew the cameras were there," Anthony Truscello said. "She was told the cameras were there. " McLean has denied that on the witness stand.

As a certified sports-orexic, I face a daily groaning board of games and news with hardly a pang of temptation. The only sport that passes my lips is an occasional baseball, one red sock at a time. Even then, I just nibble. Despite this deep aversion, it has become clear over the last decade that almost every social issue concerning Americans gets played out on or around a field. Everything except rock-and-roll ends up on the sports pages and shows. You want to talk about drugs?

State police last night arrested a 16-year-old Cumberland Regional High School sophomore and charged him with murder in the slaying of a 16-year-old sprinter on the girls' track team found stabbed in the neck inside the boys' locker room. Nielsa Mason's death was the first homicide in this rural municipality since 1993 and a first for the 18-year-old school. State police last night refused to identify the boy because of his age. The youth was arrested at his Bridgeton home without incident about 10 p.m. and taken to the Bridgeton state police barracks, said police spokesman John Hagerty.

For the last few days, Toronto newspapers and fans - some more vicious than others - have poked fun at John Kruk's physique. Last night, in the first World Series appearance of his career, the Phillies' first baseman poked back. He had three hits, knocked in two runs, scored twice, and reached base four times. It was the one time that the Blue Jays retired him, however, that left Kruk perplexed. With the score tied, 4-4, and the bases loaded with two out in the sixth, Kruk struck out, chasing a 3-2 slider from lefthander Al Leiter, a former high school star in Ocean County, N.J. "I faced him once in spring training, but I didn't remember much about him," Kruk said.

It came up most recently in a letter written to protest our disendorsement of a woman running for re-election to the Pennsylvania legislature who claimed that the editorial reeked with "the stench of the country club locker room. " Last week while doing scholarly research on popular music I encountered a comment from a black feminist saying that the rap music of 2 Live Crew and others was, essentially, "a locker room with a beat. " Indeed, women have been making sexist slurs for years to the effect that men, when in the relative privacy of their locker rooms, join together in making lewd, lascivious and demeaning comments about women.

10 tonight CHANNEL 3 When a beautiful star quarterback in the Lingerie Football League is murdered in a locker room with traces of lidocaine in her system, Mac (Gary Sinise, right) and the CSIs are summoned.

MEXICAN TV sportscaster Ines Sainz has a smoking-hot body, the kind most women would kill for, and the type of job that being easy on the eye is a career requirement. But that doesn't mean she was asking for trouble when she showed up in the New York Jets locker room in painted-on jeans. When you stop and consider her vavavavoom image and that she got her position in part for being eye candy for TV Azteca's male viewers, Sainz was doing her job. For her, dressing in provocative clothing is as much a part of how she earns her living as her interviewing skills.

BREAKING GROUND for an expansion at the Yellin School in Stratford is Arnold Wiseman, principal there for 27 years. The project will include art facilities as well as a "gymnatorium" with a locker room. The school covers grades four through eight.

The Rochester Knighthawks romped past the Wings 22-12 in the season opener at the Wells Fargo Center in what Wings coach Johnny Mouradian called a "slug fest" when fist fights burst out with seconds left in the fourth quarter. Wings defenseman Tom Hajek and Knighthawks defenseman Tyler Burton were ejected after exchanging punches with about 25 seconds left in the game. The game resumed but stopped about 10 seconds later as each of the 12 players on the field erupted in fights with opposing players.