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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' - comments that were slammed as 'sexist' by Tigers coach Kim Mulkey
In previewing LSU's Sweet 16 matchup vs. UCLA (who Bolch regularly covers), he pitted the contest as a matchup between 'good versus evil,' while referring to LSU as 'villains' and calling UCLA 'milk and cookies.'
On Monday - just before the Tigers' Elite 8 matchup vs. Iowa - Bolch said he had 'terribly missed the mark and 'failed miserably in my choice of words.'
It has taken me two days to write this apology because I wanted to be as thoughtful as possible in my response to the situation I
