ALBANY, N.Y. — LSU coach Kim Mulkey ripped a Los Angeles Times column that portrayed her team’s matchup against UCLA as a “reckoning” between good versus evil, calling it “sexist,” “awful” and “wrong.”
During her postgame news conference following a 78-69 victory Saturday, Mulkey was asked about her team embracing an “us against the world mentality” and whether she has told her players to “enjoy having the black hat on.”
In response, she said she was sent Friday’s column in the Times that described her team as “dirty debutantes” and UCLA as “milk and cookies.” In addition, the column portrayed the matchup as “good versus evil. Right versus wrong. Inclusive versus divisive.”
“You can criticize coaches all you want,” Mulkey said. “That’s our business. You can come at us and say you’re the worst coach in America. I hate you, I hate everything about you. We expect that. It comes with the territory.
“But the one thing I’m not going to let you do, I’m not going to let you attack young people, and there were some things in this commentary that you should be offended by as women. It was so sexist. It was good versus evil…
