Beau will be visiting soon. In the meantime, here’s a look at Kim Mulkey’s tournament:
Everything about Kim Mulkey screams: LOOK AT ME – of her flashy sideline to her in-your-face coaching style to her combative media attitude. But perceptions of Mulkey have never shifted more wildly than during this year’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament, where the LSU coach has come under a level of criticism unlike any she has experienced in her lengthy hoops career.
The rollercoaster ride began late last month, when the 61-year-old devoted the first of two postgame news conferences to criticizing an impending “hit piece” from the Washington Post. This despite the newspaper asking for her cooperation for two years and giving her two more days to respond to a final list of questions. Mulkey threatened legal action and labeled Kent Babb, the respected Post writer in question, a two-bit muckraker. (“Not many people are in a position to hold these types of journalists accountable, but I am, and I will,” Mulkey said.) While the aggressive PR defense endeared Mulkey to groups of conservative-leaning hoops agnostics who Already wary of the press, the press had the counterproductive effect of offering free advertising for what turned out to be a fairly benign profile — a major disappointment to readers who half expected the Post to report that they were in the Capitol on January 6 Has been. based on the coach’s outburst.
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