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A much-derided L.A. Times column directed at LSU women's basketball has received another damage control update.

This time the tweak was to the editor's note that was added following adjustments to remove the term "dirty debutantes" from the missive that characterized the LSU women as the villain of college basketball.

"The original version of this commentary did not meet Times editorial standards. It has been edited to remove language that was inappropriate and offensive," the note reads. "We apologize to the LSU basketball program and to our readers."

The column, which was written in advance of LSU's victory over UCLA, still exists in its new edited form with the headline "UCLA-LSU is America's sweethearts vs. its basketball villains."

Even with watered-down language it is a column that paints the LSU women's program in a light that has been as consistent as it is questionable, a cauldron that has been brewing since the 2023 tournament and a microscope over the behavior of Tigers star Angel Reese. Tigers head coach Kim Mulkey has also found herself in the crosshairs, with a Washington Post article taking aim at her career, most notably during her stint as the head coach at Baylor.

Mulkey was among the loudest critics of the column, written by Ben Bolch, which also characterized UCLA as "milk and cookies" in another since-deleted line of the column. The Tigers coach called out what she considers to be blatant and overt sexism in the writing.

“You can criticize coaches all you want, that’s our business. You can come at us and say you’re the worst coach in America, I hate you, I hate everything about you. We expect that, it comes with the territory," Mulkey said. "But the one thing I’m not gonna let you do, I’m not gonna let you attack young people, and there were some things in this commentary, guys, that you should be offended by as women. It was so sexist and they don’t even know it. It was ‘good vs. evil’ in that game today. Evil? Called us ‘dirty debutantes’ … are you kidding me? I’m not gonna let you talk about 18-21 year old kids in that tone."

Bolch has been an L.A. Times staff writer since 1999 and currently serves as the outlet's UCLA beat writer. He issued an apology Monday afternoon, about an hour prior to LSU's tipoff against Iowa. UCLA women's basketball coach Cori Close said she shared the article without reading it and apologized for doing so.

"I made a huge mistake in reposting without reading it first, and I am very sorry for that," she wrote. "I would never want to promote anything that tears down a group of people in our great game."

LSU guard Hailey Van Lith spoke publicly about the article and pointed to racism as what is fueling the narrative around her team, which has only gotten louder as they've bullied their way through the field into another Elite Eight, where they will match up with superstar Caitlin Clark and Iowa on Monday evening. Encounters between Reese and Clark in the title game last year also spurred discussions about LSU's on-court persona.

Clark and Reese have both downplayed any bad blood between the two off the basketball court, as they also did after the title game a year ago.

"Me and Caitlin Clark don’t hate each other, like, I want everyone to understand that it’s just a super competitive game, and like, I just wish people realized that," Reese said.

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