Kim Mulkey mentioned she hadn’t had the chance to read the Washington Post article about her before her important game on Saturday. The article, which Mulkey had already threatened the outlet over prior to its publication, was released just hours before LSU’s Sweet 16 matchup against UCLA.
Upon being informed by ESPN’s Holly Rowe about the article’s publication, Mulkey responded, “You’re telling me something I didn’t know, so you’re the bearer of good news, bad news, however you want to look at it.
But are you really surprised? Are you really surprised by the timing of it? But I can tell you I haven’t read it. Don’t know that I will read it. I’ll leave that up to my attorneys.”
The article discussed allegations regarding Mulkey’s treatment of gay players, her association with Brittney Griner, her conduct during Baylor’s football sexual assault scandal while she was the women’s basketball coach, insights into her relationship with her father, and comments attributed to her regarding LSU star Angel Reese.
In response, Mulkey’s attorneys asserted that she had not treated gay players “more harshly or differently” in a letter to the Washington Post. They also refuted claims that Mulkey did not support Griner during her imprisonment in Russia.
Amidst rumors of an impending Washington Post article about Mulkey last week, she criticized both the outlet and the reporter, Kent Babb.
Mulkey publicly addressed the situation, stating, “I wouldn’t normally discuss media rumors about me, but I felt the need to publicly address what exactly this reporter for the Washington Post has been doing the past several years and the lengths he has gone to try and put a hit piece together.
Kim Mulkey reacts to the publishing of the Washington Post story on her—an hour and a half before LSU’s Sweet 16 matchup.
“Are you really surprised by the timing of it?”pic.twitter.com/wEoYcTc51H
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) March 30, 2024
This reporter has been working on a story about me for two years. After two years of trying to get me to sit with him for an interview, he contacts LSU on Tuesday, as we were getting ready for the first-round game of this [NCAA] tournament, with more than a dozen questions, demanding a response by Thursday right before we’re scheduled to tip off. Are you kidding me?
“This was a ridiculous deadline that LSU and I could not possibly meet, and the reporter knew it. It’s just an attempt to prevent me from commenting and an attempt to distract us from this tournament. It ain’t gonna work, buddy. Unfortunately, this is part of a pattern that goes back years. I told this reporter two years ago that I didn’t appreciate the hit job he wrote on [LSU football coach] Brian Kelly, and that’s why I wasn’t going to do an interview with him.
“After that, the reporter called two former college coaches of mine and left multiple messages that he was with me in Baton Rouge to get them to call him back — trying to trick these coaches into believing that I was working with the Washington Post on a story.”
