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...Less than two days after being selected first by the world-champion Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association's college draft last June, University of Maryland Superstar Len Bias, 22, died of cocaine intoxication. A grand jury investigating his death has already indicted several of the young men who were with him on the last night of his life. The jurors last week began looking into a range of broader questions about the pervasiveness of drug abuse on the Terrapin team and the manner in which the university and Coach Lefty Driesell administered the varsity basketball program. The university...
...Just eight days following the Bias tragedy, Cleveland Browns Safety Don Rogers, 23, died of a cocaine-induced heart attack. A member of the N.F.L. All-Rookie team in 1984, Rogers consumed his deadly overdose the day before he was to marry his college sweetheart...
Many young athletes today belong to a generation in which drugs are casually accepted. By the time they enter the high-stakes sports world, it is more than likely that a number of them have experimented. Says Edwards: "Len Bias and Don Rogers may constitute only the first wave of tragic drug-abuse casualties from within the ranks of athletes who have matured with the drug counterculture and with big-time sports...
...Bias associated with a few such human leeches. Brian Lee Tribble, 24, a self-employed furniture upholsterer and former Maryland junior varsity basketball player, has been charged with providing Bias with the coke that killed him. "We had heard about it, and I had approached him about it," says Wharton Lee Madkins, director of Maryland's Columbia Park Recreation Center and Bias' first basketball coach. "He told me he wasn't messing with drugs, so I just took it for granted and left it alone...
...Robert Pritchett, coach of the Clark College basketball team in Atlanta and a onetime high school star, the Bias-Tribble relationship is a grim sign of changing times. "I remember when I was coming up. The night before a game, some guys would be standing on the corner drinking a bottle of wine. I would try to get a sip, and a brother would say, 'You can't have none of this. You've got a game tomorrow. You've got to be at your best. You've got a future.' Twenty years ago Len Bias would not have been...