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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...
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...
...Len 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...
...This is Len Bias . . . There's no way he can die. Seriously, sir, please come quick." That was Brian Tribble's desperate plea to a 911 operator as his friend, University of Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias, lay dying of cocaine intoxication in his dormitory on June 19. Last week Tribble surrendered to authorities after a grand jury indicted him on narcotics charges that included possession of cocaine with intent to distribute the drug. Tribble, 24, a former Maryland junior-varsity basketball player, is suspected of providing Bias with the coke that killed...
...younger Americans who could never afford the drug in its more expensive powdered form. One study reported that cocaine has spread to as many as one-third of America's college students. Since 1980, cocaine-related deaths have tripled. The deaths last month of University of Maryland Basketball Player Len Bias, 22, and Cleveland Browns Defensive Back Don Rogers, 23, added to the sense of urgency...