re: Mulkey article is online

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Kim Mulkey has long been college basketball’s most colorful, controversial figure. For almost as long, that has prompted a level of vitriol among the media that borders on the unprofessional.

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There are plenty of male coaches with documented records of doing terrible things or being unlikeable people who have not been put under the microscope like Mulkey has.

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Plenty of other coaches appear to be having rage strokes on the sidelines. Have blistered their players publicly. For them, it’s dismissed as “passion” or praised as “tough coaching.” Nothing to see here or look at further.

Yet it’s somehow fair game to detail the coach’s decades-long estrangement from her father, presenting as a sympathetic figure a man who devastated his daughter by cheating on her mother and walking out on his family, suggesting instead that it’s Mulkey who is the heartless one.

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You might not like Mulkey. You might not like her players. But if you are not bothered by the public discourse that surrounds them and cannot see the sexism and racism at its root, the problem isn’t them.

It’s you.

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