LSU coach Kim Mulkey has won four national championships and is enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame. Despite her on-court success, she’s been a polarizing force in women’s college basketball, frequently stirring controversy.
The Washington Post published a story on Mulkey on Saturday, hours before LSU’s Sweet 16 victory over UCLA, detailing the coach’s demeanor, playing days at Louisiana Tech and relationships with past players and family members. Lawyers for Mulkey criticized the newspaper for talking to her estranged father and her sister. Mulkey declined to speak with The Post directly, but said through her lawyers that her family members did not “relate in any way to her career,” the newspaper said in its story.
Mulkey and her father, Les, have not spoken in 37 years, the Post said, after Les’ infidelity and eventual divorce from Mulkey’s mother. Mulkey herself wrote about the subjects in her 2007 autobiography, “Won’t Back Down.” Mulkey walked alone down the aisle at her wedding, and returned notes from Les unread as he pleaded for reconciliation, according to The Post.
“His unfaithfulness to my mother devastated our entire family,” Mulkey wrote in her autobiography.
Last week, before The Post’s story was published, Mulkey threatened to sue the…
