LA Times columnist Ben Bolch has issued an apology for his op-ed which referred to LSU’s women’s basketball team as ‘dirty debutantes’ ahead of their Elite Eight matchup with Iowa.
Bolch released a statement on X, captioning the post ‘A LONG OVERDUE APOLOGY’ in reference to his piece which LSU coach Kim Mulkey slammed as ‘sexist.’
‘Words matter. As a journalist, no one should know this more than me. Yet I have failed miserably in my choice of words,’ Bolch wrote.
‘I can now see why the words I used were wrong,’ he continued. ‘It was not my intent to be hurtful but I now understand that I terribly missed the mark.’
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