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Minolta denies the charges, but earlier this month agreed to settle two similar cases filed by the states of Maryland and New York. The company promised as much as $700,000 in refunds to customers in those states...
...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...
...University of Virginia football team -- including Barry Word, former tailback and 1985 Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year -- were charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to distribute cocaine. They join 21 other individuals who have been indicted as part of a drug ring dealing coke in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee and Florida. The gridiron trio accounted for more than 56% of their team's points last season. Today they each face a maximum sentence of a $250,000 fine and 16 years in prison...
...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...
...important part of the antidrug crusade. But the war against drugs in sports must be fought day to day in the nation's high schools. It will take more coaches like Morgan Wootten, who has worked for 30 years at DeMatha Catholic High School, a small boys' school in Maryland. His basketball teams have had 23 Washington-area conference championships, and in the past 26 years every senior on the squad has won an athletic scholarship to college. "I talk a lot with my players," says Wootten. "To stress to them that they are in the public eye constantly...