(Rod Aydelotte/Associated Press)Kim Mulkey, the highly successful coach of the Baylor women’s basketball team, offered a stirring and tone-deaf defense of the school as it faces allegations of sexual assault. Mulkey’s remarks were met with cheers and she went on to call Baylor “the damn best school” in the country. [Lawsuit alleges Baylor scandal is more widespread than initially believed]“I’m tired of people talking on it on a national scale that don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said after the Bears beat Texas Tech. The problems that we have at Baylor are no different than the problems at any other school in America. In January, a federal lawsuit was filed by a Virginia woman who alleges that she was gang-raped by two Baylor players in 2013.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2017 18:22 UTC