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The Washington Publish on Saturday launched an in-depth profile of Louisiana State College girls’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey, which paints the coach as a frontrunner with single-minded dedication whose habits typically leaves the basketball neighborhood, and her personal gamers, divided.
Anticipation for WaPo’s report was excessive after Mulkey every week in the past threatened to sue the Publish over a “hit piece” she mentioned the newspaper had been engaged on for greater than two years.
The Publish’s story doesn’t comprise the kind of bombshell revelations that many had been anticipating following Mulkey’s fiery tirade final Saturday forward of LSU’s second spherical recreation within the NCAA girls’s basketball match.
As an alternative, it paints an image of a coach whose brash method and tendency to carry a grudge make her one of the vital polarizing figures in school basketball historical past, and of a life dedicated to the pursuit of basketball excellence that has left in its wake a collection of fractured relationships.
Mulkey briefly spoke to match broadcaster ESPN as her LSU crew was getting ready to tip-off its Candy 16 recreation, with Mulkey saying she’d simply discovered that the article had been printed.
“You’re telling me one thing I didn’t know,” Mulkey informed ESPN. “So that you’re the bearer of fine information or dangerous information or nonetheless the way you wish to take a look at it. However are you actually stunned? Are you actually stunned by the timing of it? However I can inform you I haven’t learn it, don’t know that I’ll learn it, I’ll depart that as much as my attorneys.”
Each LSU and Mulkey’s earlier college Baylor College declined to touch upon the Washington Publish story when contacted by CNN.
No. 3 seeded LSU is at the moment enjoying its Candy 16 recreation towards No. 2 UCLA in Albany, New York.