Fani Willis Says She’s ‘Not Embarrassed’ In First Public Comments After Nathan Wade Scandal Threatened Trump Trial, Report SaysKim Mulkey, the head coach of Louisiana State University‘s women’s basketball team, was on the defensive Saturday, threatening legal action against The Washington Post for what she described as a forthcoming “hit piece,” the latest controversy Mulkey has found herself in the center of.
LSU and the University of South Carolina brawled during an SEC championship game earlier this year, but while South Carolina’s head coachshe wished South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso, who pushed an LSU player, had shoved LSU’s Angel Reese, who is much taller. In March 2021—as the pandemic still raged—she criticized the COVID-19 testing policy put in place during the March Madness tournament that year andthe tournament should “dump” the testing protocols so that all of the players could compete in the tournament’s final games.
A month later, during her first press conference as head coach at LSU, Mulkey dramatically ripped her “damn mask” off, saying she had “a lot to say.” In 2017, Mulkey then publicly dismissed a sexual misconduct scandal at Baylor University, where she was coach, saying “the problems that we have at Baylor are no different than the problems at any other school in America,” but after many criticized her remarks as insensitive to victims, she latera report that said Mulkey urged her former basketball player, Brittney Griner, to hide her sexuality while she played at Baylor University, with Griner telling the sports outlet, “the coaches thought if...