Lawyers for LSU coach Kim Mulkey criticized The Washington Post for talking to her estranged father and her sister for an article that published on Saturday in the hours before her team’s Sweet 16 game against UCLA.
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 paper during a news conference ahead of the NCAA Tournament. She said she had received questions from the Post, and the newspaper in its story included her objections and responses to its queries about the details of its reporting.
Before her team’s game on Saturday, Mulkey said in an interview with ESPN shown on the broadcast that she…
