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Says Richard Bull, a senior at Loyola College in Maryland, "Muscles ache that we never knew we had." His friend, Jane Keller interjects, "You find you have to get a lot of rest and sleep on weekends," quickly adding that "no one does...
With that unequivocal statement, the Maryland medical examiner, Dr. John Smialek, last week ended some of the widespread speculation about the shocking death of the University of Maryland basketball star. Bias, 22, who had just been drafted by the Boston Celtics, had been in perfect health. He did not, as rumored, have the genetic disorder Marfan's syndrome. Nor did he suffer from any previously undetected defect in his heart or circulatory system. Bias had simply taken some cocaine--perhaps for the first time--and, as a direct result, died...
While doctors pondered how cocaine killed Bias, Maryland authorities were investigating how he obtained the drug. At week's end they were interested in questioning Brian Tribble, an acquaintance who lives well and drives a Mercedes. Reports circulated that Tribble was seen with Bias in various places around Washington in the early morning before the athlete's death and accompanied him back to his dormitory at 5 a.m., about an hour before he was stricken. Arthur Marshall, state's attorney for Prince Georges County, vowed to develop a manslaughter case if the dealer who sold the fatal cocaine...
Bias' death turned the spotlight on the status of athletes at the University of Maryland. Bias had compiled a dismal academic record at the school, particularly in the past year, and was still 21 credits short of graduating, instead of nine, as he recently claimed. The university and Basketball Coach "Lefty" Driesell quickly found themselves the targets of charges that athletes, particularly black athletes, are routinely exploited at big-time sports schools. Wendy Whittemore, academic counselor to the basketball team, took the occasion to resign, saying that she thought education was not a top priority for Coach Driesell. Marshall claimed...
...Basketball Association, what he called a "dream within a dream." The next day he made a lavish deal to wear Reebok shoes. On the third day, he died. No dream is emptier than death at 22, but the cruel death last week of Len Bias, the All- America from Maryland, got crueler. Cocaine was implied, maybe an experimental first taste. Friends considered even that unthinkable, but if the substance found in his car and system was cocaine, then in some dazzling order more rapid than a heartbeat, Bias must have experienced all the shades of an athlete's life...