LA Times writer issues apology over controversial LSU op-ed that called team ‘dirty debutantes’… after head coach Kim Mulkey hit out at ‘sexist’ wording: ‘I terribly missed the mark’

LA Times columnist Ben Bolch apologized for his op-ed in which he referred to the LSU women’s basketball team as “dirty rookies” ahead of their Elite Eight matchup with Iowa.

Bolch issued a statement on

‘Words matter. As a journalist, no one should know this more than me. However, I have failed miserably in the choice of my words,” Bolch wrote.

“Now I can see why the words I used were wrong,” he continued. “I didn’t mean any harm, but now I understand that I failed terribly.”

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