L.A. Times Writer Apologizes for ‘Sexist’ Column About LSU Women’s Basketball Team

A Los Angeles Times sports writer has issued a public apology for a column that referred to the Louisiana State University women’s basketball team as “dirty debutantes”—after the ill-advised phrasing drew a very public denunciation from the team’s coach Kim Mulkey.

“Words matter. As a journalist, no one should know that more than me. Yet I have failed miserably in my choice of words,” Ben Bolch wrote in a statement on Monday.

In his Friday commentary previewing a game between LSU and UCLA, Bolch described it as “America’s sweethearts vs. its basketball villains,” and a battle between “good and evil” and “right versus wrong.”

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