Kim Mulkey gets her statue at Louisiana Tech in a warm homecoming: 'Timing is everything'

RUSTON — One day, more than 23 years ago, Sonja Hogg picked up her phone and dialed a north Louisiana area code. Hogg, the legendary coach who started the Louisiana Tech women’s basketball program, called from Waco, Texas. She was retiring, wrapping up her sixth and final year at Baylor, and she wanted to talk to Leon Barmore, then the coach at Louisiana Tech, because she had a plan. Hogg would step aside. And Baylor would hire one of her former Louisiana Tech players, a young coach named Kim Mulkey,...