Kim Mulkey, the head coach of the LSU Tigers women’s basketball team, has gone viral.
Apparently, a Washington Post reporter has been working on what Mulkey describes as a “hit piece” about her for the past two years. Yet, on Tuesday, just ahead of one of LSU’s biggest matchups as they prepare for the First Round of the NCAA Tournament, Mulkey was hit with 12 questions, and the reporter was “demanding a response” just two days later, right before tip-off.
Mulkey called the deadline “ridiculous” and rhetorically asked, “Are you kidding me!?”
She felt the reporter was desperately trying to distract her and the entire LSU women’s basketball team from their goals of advancing in the tournament, but as Mulkey states, “It ain’t gonna work, buddy.”
Yet, Mulkey claims this is “part of a pattern” that the reporter has repeated before. Her issues with him date back to when the reporter did a “hit piece” on former LSU football head coach Brian Kelly, which is when she decided she wouldn’t agree to an interview, not with this reporter anyway.
She even alleges that the Washington Post has tried to get current and former players to go on the record with anonymous comments, as long as they were negative remarks about Mulkey.
Mulkey said she’s “Fed up,” and has hired the best defamation law firm in the country, and is ready to sue the Washington Post if they “publish a false story about me.”
LSU coach Kim Mulkey says a Washington Post reporter has spent the past two years working on a negative story about her.
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) March 23, 2024
“I will sue the Washington Post if they publish a false story about me."
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Coaching since 1985, Mulkey first became a head coach in 2000, taking over at Baylor, where she remained until 2021 before taking the head coaching job at LSU.
Last year, Mulkey and star forward Angel Reese helped LSU win the NCAA Tournament National Final, and this year, the Tigers have already advanced to the Second Round of play, but as she says, these distractions won’t get in the way.
Meanwhile, now everyone is eager to learn more about this story the reporter has been working on for two years. Everyone except Mulkey.
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