LSU Coach Kim Mulkey Fires Away Again, Calls Washington Post Writer 'One Sleazy Reporter'

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Kim Mulkey could not resist posting up Washington Post sports writer Kent Babb again on Sunday afternoon.

A reporter asked after LSU's game Sunday if Mulkey and her team "externally felt like maybe you were distracted a touch" by Mulkey's tirade against Babb on Saturday, which included a lawsuit threat if an incoming feature by Babb on Mulkey is not accurate.

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"No, listen man, I'm not, we're not going to let one sleazy reporter distract us from what we're trying to do," Mulkey said after her No. 3 seed Tigers roared back from a 36-32 halftime deficit to rout No. 11 seed Middle Tennessee, 83-56, in the NCAA Tournament second round before 12,632 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Defending national champion LSU (30-5) advances to the Sweet 16.

"Absolutely not," Mulkey said. "My kids didn't even know I said that yesterday. That team's not involved in this. They were in shock when they saw all that on the Internet. I don't take that stuff to my team."

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But Mulkey took it to Babb and to journalism in general. Babb confirmed to OutKick Sunday that he has been working on a profile on Mulkey. It will possibly come out on Monday. Mulkey took offense to some of the interview tactics she described that Babb took with former players Mulkey has coached and coaches she played under, among other things.

LSU coach Kim Mulkey embraces Middle Tennessee coach Rick Insell before their NCAA Tournament second round game Sunday at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center (Photo by Andy Hancock/NCAA Photos via Getty Images).

Babb did not respond to that accusation.

"I'm not able to say anything beyond to confirm that I am working on a profile of Kim Mulkey," he said. 

Mulkey also said that she didn't like a "hit job" Babb wrote on LSU football coach Brian Kelly two years ago and said that was why she would not agree to an interview with him. But OutKick reviewed that story and found it was nothing like a hit piece on Kelly whatsoever.

READ: Kim Mulkey's ‘Hit Job’ Accusation Of Post Story Misses Off The Iron 

As far as the "sleazy" comment, Babb's only comment to that Sunday was, "Ha."

Sleazy?

Babb has won several major sports writing awards, including three No. 1 features (2005, ‘10 and ’19) in the Associated Press Sports Editors annual contest, which is regarded as the No. 1 national contest for sports writers. Three of his stories were featured in the exclusive "Best American Sports Writing" anthology in 2013, ‘18 and ’21 and in "The Year's Best Sports Writing" in 2021.

He also has published two widely acclaimed sports books - "Not A Game: The Incredible Rise And Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson" in 2015 and "Across The River: Life, Death And Football In An American City" in 2021.

He wrote the book on Iverson without ever being granted an interview, and it was a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. Babb has been at the Washington Post since 2012 and previously wrote for the Kansas City Star and The State in Columbia, South Carolina.

LSU will play next weekend in Albany, New York, against the winner of Monday's game between No. 7 seed Creighton (26-5) and No. 2 seed UCLA (26-6) at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN2.