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Sports Media Can't Lose Humanity In Covering Athletics, Specifically Black Athletes - Blavity

The nation has been enthralled with the storylines playing out in this year’s women’s NCAA Tournament . Last Friday, March 29, Ben Bolch of The Los Angeles Times stained an otherwise beautiful thing. He wrote an article in which he juxtaposed two squads. The UCLA Bruins were to face the LSU Tigers. Bolch thought it to be a good idea to frame the match-up as “good versus evil.” He went on to try and further contextualize the teams’ personas as UCLA being the “milk and cookies” to LSU’s “ dirty debutantes .” For purposes of clarity, the LSU Tigers are a predominately Black team. They play a physical brand of ball led by Angel Reese. In response, Tigers head coach Kim Mulkey put Bolch on the Summer Jam screen. She addressed the sexist and racial undertones that he chose to angle his piece with. I’m glad that she did because the article was then edited, and rid of the distasteful phrasing that it had the first time around. We cannot lose humanity in covering athletes. These ladies are...

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