Ben Bulch referred to LSU as the “dirty debutantes” in a battle with “America’s sweethearts.”
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.
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.”over a recent profile that explored tensions in her family—slammed the piece after her team beat the UCLA Bruins Saturday.
Bolch said he waited two days to address it “because I wanted to be as thoughtful as possible in my response to the situation I have created.”
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