Len Bias

Phil Jackson provides mixed assessment on Prop. 19

2010-11-02 21:34:13

<![CDATA[Phil Jackson provides mixed assessment on Prop. 19]]>

'Fringe': Headlines from the Other Side

2009-09-17 08:54:34

<![CDATA['Fringe': Headlines from the Other Side]]>

Prisoners of panic

2008-01-06 00:00:00

How much more folly, absurdity, fiscal irresponsibility and human tragedy will we endure before we stop tolerating the political pandering that has dictated our criminal justice law and policy over the last two decades? The pattern has become all too...

MC Longshot recalls early days reading poetry

2013-05-23 09:26:00

Chad Heslup high-tailed it up to Minneapolis a few years ago, to continue to develop his connections with that city's entrenched independent hip-hop scene, but his roots as a rapper are in Chicago, where he began. He returns to the city this weekend to...

Men's basketball: Maryland to pay visit for Big Ten/ACC event

2013-05-09 04:14:02

Ohio State men's basketball fans will get an early preview of Maryland, a future opponent in the Big Ten. The Buckeyes will play the Terrapins on Dec. 4 at Value City Arena as part of the 15th Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Maryland, a charter member of the...

Alex Len earns Len Bias Award as most valuable Terp

2013-04-18 04:30:00

Alex Len was given the Len Bias Award as Maryland's most valuable player at the team's awards banquet. Len also earned the Len Elmore Award for most rebounds and the Buck Williams Award for most valuable defensive player. Dez Wells received the Greivis...

Digest: Len earns Bias Award as most valuable Terp

2013-04-17 23:03:00

Men's college basketball Len earns Bias Award as most valuable Terp Alex Len was given the Len Bias Award as Maryland's most valuable player at the team's awards banquet. Len also earned the Len Elmore Award for most rebounds and the Buck Williams...

Lefty Driesell honored with bas-relief at Comcast Center

2013-04-17 06:20:00

More than a quarter century after he was forced to resign in the months following the cocaine-induced death of basketball star Len Bias, longtime Maryland coach Lefty Driesell was officially — and permanently — recognized Tuesday with the...

Teel Time: ACC tournament memories of Lefty, Jimmy V, and my bride

2013-03-12 11:36:00

Our family moved from the Jersey Shore to Baltimore in the summer of 1970. The following winter, an irresistible character began frequenting our television. Lefty Driesell was equal parts coach, salesman and showman, and through sheer force of...

Virginia Tech's Erick Green earns ACC's player of the year honors

2013-03-12 12:48:00

As satisfying as it was for Virginia Tech's Erick Green to learn he'd made first team All-Atlantic Coast Conference, he wasn't afraid to admit he had his fingers crossed for an even loftier distinction. He wanted to be recognized as the best. He got his...

Teel Time: ACC player of year race crowded with Larkin, Green, Harris, Plumlee

2013-03-07 11:22:00

Duke’s Shane Battier and North Carolina’s Joseph Forte shared 2001 ACC basketball player of the year honors as media balloting deadlocked at 32 votes each. If ever another season was going to produce such an improbable tie, it’s this...

Lefty Driesell sees Saturday's recognition as a nod to the players of his era

2013-02-22 16:51:00

COLLEGE PARK — Lefty Driesell is more than 26 years and 220 miles removed from Maryland's men's basketball program. At 81, the former coach doesn't get to many games anymore. But from his condo in Virginia Beach, Va., Driesell thinks about his...

All-American Len Bias, thought by many to be the greatest basketball player to ever wear a Terps uniform, died from the after-effects of a cocaine overdose on June 19, 1986 -- two days after being drafted by the Boston Celtics.

2012-02-09 07:22:59

$79.49 amazon.com This group of 30 sports documentaries by several Academy Award-winning directors is a must for any diehard sports fan.

2011-11-23 02:25:51

Mike Gimbel writes that 25 years after Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose, athletes are still abusing drugs and hurting themselves and others.

2011-06-20 12:32:07