"This is exactly why people don't trust journalists and the media anymore... I'm fed up... I will sue the Washington Post if they publish a false story about me." - LSU HC Kim Mulkey
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 23, 2024
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“But you see, reporters who give a megaphone to a one-sided, embellished version of things aren’t trying to tell the truth. They’re trying to sell newspapers and feed the click machine. This is exactly why people don’t trust journalists and the media anymore. It’s these kinds of sleazy tactics and hatchet jobs that people are just tired of.”
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Washington Post? Sounds like the reporter is using the 1965 National Enquirer's playbook.
Did he used to work for Nickelodeon?.
She’s right.
Apparently lots of people on Twitter hate this woman and I had no idea who she was until yesterday. But apparently she’s a conservative so she must be destroyed by the Left.
reporters who give a megaphone to a one-sided, embellished version of things aren’t trying to tell the truth. They’re trying to sell newspapers and feed the click machine. This is exactly why people don’t trust journalists and the media anymore.
They aren’t selling newspapers- they don’t care about that anymore. They are selling an unpopular agenda and trying to manipulate minds and intimidate anyone who doesn’t comply. Propaganda they call it…
Hoping the WaPoo prints a defamation story and the LSU coach gets a jury loaded with LSU fans. Defamation is a two-way street.
Is this the same women that went after Portnoy and all the pizza shop owners on the eve of the charity event?
It sounds like trash talking, a feature of women's basketball strategy since Imus and Rutgers. Wapo being the other team.
Kim Mulkey is the women's BB coach version of Bobby Knight. Total nut case. But she's right about the press.
The Washington Post is the enemy of the people. Sleaze bags all. It's part of the Democrat/Barbarian Party to ensure Democrat/Barbarians are in charge for all time.
No lie is too outrageous for them if advances the narrative for the Democrat/Barbarians.
"Dave Begley said...
Apparently lots of people on Twitter hate this woman and I had no idea who she was until yesterday. But apparently she’s a conservative so she must be destroyed by the Left."
Apparently.
She's a hell of a coach, but she's wacky.
She can't stand the heat in the kitchen. File under freedom of the press we don't like.
She’s right. And I don’t know anything about what this is about.
I remember when athletes talking about their sexuality was considered "locker room talk" and was looked down upon as crass and vulgar. Now coaches are supposed to encourage it?
Wow! Mulkey is an incredible woman.
From Wikipedia:
Kimberly Duane Mulkey (born May 17, 1962) is an American college basketball coach and former player. She is the head coach for Louisiana State University's women's basketball team. A Pan-American gold medalist in 1983 and Olympic gold medalist in 1984, she became the first person in NCAA women's basketball history to win a national championship as a player, assistant coach, and head coach. She has won NCAA championships as the coach of Baylor in 2005, 2012, and 2019 and of LSU in 2023. Mulkey was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 and into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.
Kim Mulkey was one of the first girls in the U.S. to play organized basketball with boys. After playing basketball at Nesom Junior High School in Tickfaw, Louisiana, she led her Hammond High School basketball team to four consecutive state championships. As high school valedictorian, she posted a perfect 4.0 GPA.
The list of extraordinary accomplishments and honors goes on and on. She's 5'4".
Bob Knight was not fond of the press either, and was not hesitant to say so.
He liked to tell the press "We all learn how to write by the third grade. Most of us move on to other things."
Don't follow women's sports. No apologies for that. I don't follow soccer either. So I don't know the players, coaches in these sports. I don't know Lynn Mulkey from Amy Madigan. But what she's said about WaPo and journalists in general is true. It is why journalists have a popularity that polls around the level of Congress...or lower. (Interestingly, psychiatrists and labor union leaders are in the same vicinity).
WaPo does what she stated. This is standard operating procedure for them. I hope they release whatever it is. And I hope she sues them into Gawkerville.
Sounds like she knows it will get her fired if it comes out.
She didn’t have time to answer questions, but plenty of time to engage the best defamation law firm in America, and hold a press conference to rant about it.
And like Bobby Knight, perhaps even more so, a very successful basketball coach. Many hyper-successful coaches tend to be single minded and obsessive about what they do and are not always pleasant human beings who are extremely demanding of their players. Nevertheless their players have a tendency to be devoted to them. Does this say something about the malleability of the young or the effectiveness of "tough love."
She should make sure to sue them in Louisiana.
@Howard sez: "She can't stand the heat in the kitchen. File under freedom of the press we don't like."
Looks to me like she's standing up to the heat just fine, and dishing some of it back. She didn't say they shouldn't print the story, and she didn't say people should be prevented from reading it. She simply described the WaPo's tactics and put them on notice that she is ready for them to meet her expectations.
I notice you went right to the censorship boogey man to frighten us all. Tell us more how this story is about 'freedom of the press', and your fear of assertive women.
Is this the woman who was ejected from a Savannah Bananas game? I didn’t bother to see what that was about when it popped up last week?
Why do Howard and Mark fear and smear women who are strong enough to stand up to bullies?
She engaged in some speculative objections to mask mandates during the COVID-19 wars. She therefore is an enemy of the people who want to boss us around. Apparently (heh, see Curious George above) she doesn't think her players should talk about their personal lives too much.
She has a target on her back. The girly men and the manly girls at WaPoo want to get her.
Iowa lost the LSU last year in the NCAA final
I honestly ignored the Iowa women until the last two or three games of last years season, but have seen all most every game since. So I never paid any attention to LSU until last years Tournament. The contrast of character between the two programs is stark to me. There is a ton of egos feasting on the program, and the program is the worse for it. The star, Angel Reese, has taken several sabbaticals this season. The coach was forced to ban her from the locker room, because she made the atmosphere toxic. The coach has taken pot shot at other programs and players. When Iowa's Clark surpassed the scoring records of others that proceeded her, Mulkey responded to a question about the accomplishment, by saying it was good, but her program does no focus on players taking 40 shots a game. Referencing Clarks record. Except the coach knows she rarely shoots that many times. Besides the fact she leads the Nation in assists, and has about 15 triple doubles for her carreer, and over 20 double, doubles this season.
In short, the LSU program has lots of internal personality problems. Who knows with the WAPO reporter, whats up.
Amadeus 48 said...
She engaged in some speculative objections to mask mandates during the COVID-19 wars. She therefore is an enemy of the people who want to boss us around. Apparently (heh, see Curious George above) she doesn't think her players should talk about their personal lives too much.
She has a target on her back. The girly men and the manly girls at WaPoo want to get
They prefer women like Hillary. No morals and particularly no judgement of male predatory behavior.
The reason they are clinging to the Carrol Trump rape fantasy so hard is because they know the kind of man that votes for democrats.
Ann clings to the fantasy to justify voting for and supporting men like this all her life.
In New Zealand this was called the "Tall Poppy Syndrome." It would have particular appeal to the losers of the leftmedia.
If it is, it seems like she has a sense of humor. The Savannah Bananas are baseballs version of the Harlem Globetrotters.
I'm torn. Part of me wants to applaud her wildly for attacking the Journolist jackals head-on, and part of me wants to remind her of the Barbara Streisand Effect.
"Many hyper-successful coaches tend to be single minded and obsessive about what they do and are not always pleasant human beings who are extremely demanding of their players. Nevertheless their players have a tendency to be devoted to them."
Stockholm Syndrome?
Kim is a one off. Fiery and committed. I suspect she is right on about warning the WAPO away from her team. I have absolutely no trust in the national press and certainly the last thing LSU needs during the NCAA tournament is some kind of press controversy to demoralize what appears, already, to be an emotionally fragile team.
The Washington Post is irresponsible? Who knew, I've got to know!!! Channeling my inner Howard Cosell.
I don't know, nor much care about one way or the other, the coach of a very successful women's college basketball program. The coach of any successful major college sports team is likely to be a manipulator at one time or another--and so what? Your average journolist seems to think it's okay to malign people--and probably safe, unless you are in a room with Bobby Knight and folding chair.
If they publish--go get 'em Kim!
What is she hiding that she doesn't want anyone to know? Could not even imagine what it could be.
vicki from Pasadena
Kim Mulkey's real crime:
"In 2013, star Baylor player Brittney Griner told ESPN that Mulkey advised student athletes to stay quiet about their sexual orientation, as being openly gay could hurt the reputation of the program at a religious school and inhibit recruiting efforts."
This, I think, is the "hit piece" by "reporter" Kent Babb.
It is more anti-South than anything and hits all the old stereotypes. Plucking those heartstrings.
Mulkey's accent alone tags her as evil in Babb's world.
And for those who don't know, the exorbitant coaching salaries cited in the hit piece are almost entirely funded by donations to booster clubs, not University funds, for the explicit purpose of paying exorbitant coaching salaries.
Also,
Purple shirts
Yellow britches
Go to Hell
You sons-of-bitches.
You can’t totally appreciate Coach Kim Mulkey unless you get a sense of her fashion. I suggest doing a search on her name and then select images. You will not be disappointed.
victoria said...
What is she hiding that she doesn't want anyone to know? Could not even imagine what it could be.
vicki from Pasadena
This is a good reminder of where the power in a population is derived that fascist movements harness.
Can't read the site.
But why would she ask anyone to be circumspect about their sexuality?
I thought gay/bi/trans was the highest form of life on earth.
Sheryl Swoopes was the hateful bigot that said Clark takes 40 shots a game.
Howard and Mark are weak males. Mulkey would kick both their asses.
She's a good coach, I like her.
Sportswriters are the worst, they want to see themselves as journalists.
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