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...might have been” unfulfilled potential stories are always the worst, I still remember my folks telling me the Len Bias story as a kid. What are these words? (c)Biggavel Welcome to NY Mr. Adalius Thomas..basketball is so wack nowadays..niggas be all friendly...
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...first-round NCAA tournament matchup against Houston (19-15) in Spokane, Wash., and he will do so only 21 points shy of passing Len Bias for second place on the program's all-time scoring list. Vasquez also ranks in the Maryland top 10 in assists (second),...
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...results for "gutenberg", Â in 0.28 seconds. Â What do we do with all this information? Â Do we need that much? Consider Len Bias. Len Bias was a talented basketball player at the University of Maryland. Â He was a senior during the same year that Michael Jordan...
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...have helped the Celtics win a couple more titles but died before playing 1 minute of ball. C's have had some bad luck with Len Bias & Reggie Lewis His story is as disappointing as anyone's out there. I just got done reading Bill Simmons' book about basketball...
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Hoopsworld
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...might more easily remember where they were when the Challenger blew up on that frigid day in 1986 (or the aforementioned Len Bias tragedy, which still manages to shock, in June of the same year). But the murder of Lennon (like JFK), by gunfire, was the same...
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PopMatters
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...that have resonated throughout the sports world and beyond. Here are some of the more memorable ones: n June 19, 1986 — Len Bias, an All-American basketball player at the University of Maryland, was found dead in his campus dorm room after an apparent cocaine...
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It’s not too early to surmise that the tragic death of Robert Enke will have a long lasting effect on the way German society considers depression and other forms of mental illness. In its own way, it may parallel the drug overdose death of Len Bias or
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The Offside
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TSN is the exclusive Canadian home to ESPN's critically acclaimed 30 FOR 30 film project - featuring some of Hollywood's finest filmmakers creating documentaries centered on the last 30 years in sports.
More than two decades after his tragic cocaine
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TSN.ca
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JUNEAU A 55-year-old Beaver Dam convicted in April of this year under the Len Bias Law will spend four years in prison after having his probation revoked.
Mark Sires was found guilty on a felony charge of first-degree reckless homicide stemming from
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The Fond du Lac Reporter
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They are easy to remember, when the questions involve where you were when your alma mater won a national championship, or your favorite teams won Super Bowls or World Series titles. What about those Ali fights, or when Len Bias and Magic Johnson taught
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Gainesville Sun
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As Boston Celtics fans sit in their TD Garden seats for a given game, a tilt of the head upward will lead to a sight no other fan base can claim in its home building — 17 NBA Championship banners.
The bulk of those banners — 13, to be exact — come from
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NECN
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In commemoration of its 30th anniversary, ESPN has enlisted thirty different film-makers to make 30 different films about 30 different things that happened since the cable giant first came on the air. The series, appropriately called 30 For 30, has
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Sports Blogs
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Pardon me while I go off track for a moment.
Last night I watched one of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentaries. It was “Without Bias: The Len Bias Story” or something like that. It didn’t blow me away as far as storytelling goes, but it was well done.
Near
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Sports Blogs
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In 1999, at 22-years-old, Antoine Walker signed a six-year $71 million deal with the Boston Celtics. It prompted Rick Pitino, then Celtics president and coach, to declare Walker, “will never have to worry about money again in his life.” A decade later,
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SLAM Online
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Well done, I put it behind the AliHolmes though.
-Did anyone else think that the Tribble dude just plain old liked to get down? He was so casually talking about doing coke that I bet he was blowing rails all over College Park in the 80’s.
I would put
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The Big Lead
http://thebiglead.com/?p=27053
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In commemoration of its 30th anniversary, ESPN has enlisted thirty different film-makers to make 30 different films about 30 different things that happened since the cable giant first came on the air. The series, appropriately called 30 For 30, has
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Sports Blogs
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You dont see Kobe hitting a jump shit while Durant goes up for the block?
I don’t think that was that great of a play. Durant was just caught.
If you’re like us and you have been enamored with Len Bias for the last 23 years, ESPN’s 30-for-30
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The Big Lead
http://thebiglead.com/?p=26806
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I'm looking forward to the ESPN joint tonight on Len Bias. I was a kid in West Baltimore when he ODed. I had no game, but you had to play around my way. There just wasn't much choice. We had a milk crate nailed to a telephone pole that we used to play
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The Atlantic
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Some quick thoughts on the latest "30 for 30" documentary coming right up...
In a way, these "30 for 30" films are almost idiot-proof. The stories that have been chosen have, so far, been so inherently interesting that it almost doesn't matter how the
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What's Alan Watching
http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2009/11/30-for-30-without-bias-everyones.html
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So my prediction of a “Bats Not Right, Bats Not Ok” chant was actually accurate?
PETA is the worst. They are worse than the radical right and left combined.
umm..they are the far left..
alf is worse. Arent they on the terrorist watch list? I want to
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The Big Lead
http://thebiglead.com/?p=26897
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Sports fans live in a “what if’’ world. What if Bledsoe hadn’t gotten injured? What if Grady had pulled Pedro? But only one “what if’’ isn’t so much a barstool debate in Boston as a moment of reflection, and it’s a moment ESPN captures provocatively,
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Boston Globe
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The irony of the eventual Yankee win will be that it vaults Joe Girardi into the pantheon of great managers
Yeah, one series does not a great manager make.
One WS wins makes legends of most managers. Not Yankees managers though.
And after the Phillies
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The Big Lead
http://thebiglead.com/?p=26687
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Len Bias’s death was more than just a basketball tragedy.
EMPTY PROMISE: Just 48 hours after being selected second in the 1986 NBA draft, Len Bias (center) was dead of a cocaine overdose, leaving basketball fans everywhere wondering what might have
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The Phoenix
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Len Bias has now been dead longer than he was alive, and yet his life and death don't feel like an old story in Without Bias, the documentary that will debut on ESPN on Tuesday. Instead, the story of Bias, who died of a cocaine overdose at age 22
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AOL Sports
http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/10/28/without-bias-a-basketball-career-cut-short-a-long-legacy/
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The hook behind ESPN's 30 For 30 series -- and, to be frank, the main reason we're covering it here -- is that it presents compelling documentaries by name-brand directors that don't necessarily rely on a viewer's knowledge of, or even interest in, the
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The A.V. Club
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CHARLOTTESVILLE --- There are many things with no right or wrong answer. An all-time all-ACC basketball team is one of them.
Fans and writers can bickeras much as they want, but usually you don't get actual current players involved.
But on a whim,
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Washington Times Blogs
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/d1scourse/2009/oct/12/high-five-from-spurlock/
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Reggie Miller is the topic of one ESPN 30 for 30 documentary.
On October 6th ESPN will be starting their new 30 for 30 documentary series. See, it's entitled 30 for 30 because it is ESPN's first good idea in 30 years. I kid!
ESPN had some good
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Associated Content
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On the afternoon of June 17, 1986, Len Bias was selected by the defending champion Boston
Celtics as the second pick of the NBA draft.
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30 for 30 will be shown at 8 tonight on ESPN.
In the early hours of June 19, Bias, a University of Maryland star,
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Columbus Dispatch
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Kirk Fraser was 9 years old - and living in the shadow of the University of Maryland - when the school’s basketball star, Celtics-bound Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose in 1986. Fraser remembers the media frenzy, the emotions, the way the event
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Boston Globe
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ON the afternoon of June 17, 1986, Len Bias was selected by the defending champion Boston Celtics as the second pick of that year’s National Basketball Association draft. In the early hours of June 19, Bias, a University of Maryland All-American,
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The New York Times
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Casey Gogos was convicted of reckless homicide and bail jumping Thursday after testimony from 21 witnesses and 2ź hours of deliberation by a Brown County jury.
Gogos, 19, could spend up to 52 years in prison for supplying the heroin that killed 17-year-
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Green Bay Press-Gazette
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WASHINGTON -- A long-awaited documentary about the life and death of Maryland basketball star Len Bias was shown for the first time Wednesday afternoon, some six weeks before its official release.
Bias's mother, Lonise, attended the screening of
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MANITOWOC Amy Kline isn't the first person to ever be charged in Manitowoc County with reckless homicide under the Len Bias law, but she is one name on a very short list.
Manitowoc police say the only other Manitowoc County Len Bias conviction they can
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Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
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McGuire was not a color man, he was a poet. He took a televised basketball game and turned it into performance art. Big centers were aircraft carriers. A flashy, unnecessary move was French pastry. Traveling resulted from the insensitive (but
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Sports Illustrated
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The anti-drug Abuse Act of 1986 was one of Congress's more notable efforts to get tough on drugs. Passed in the wake of the emotionally resonant death-by-overdose of college basketball star Len Bias, the law aimed a sledgehammer at crack-cocaine
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Newsweek
http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/newsweek/cultureideas/~3/Emf4qNElQfY/206262
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Henry in Houston:
WHAT do YOU think the ROCKETS will do on DRAFT day.
Good Morning and welcome to the Chat! Heading of to NY for the Draft tomorrow, so it's going to be an exciting week!
The Rockets are working hard to trade into the first round -
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Hoopsworld
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It may have been twenty-three years ago, but Nate McMillan remembers the 1986 NBA Draft like it was yesterday.
He couldn't forget if he tried.
"They (the television network) turned it off after the first round. Right when they stopped coverage, I
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Hoopsworld
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The Celtics are the most storied franchise in NBA history. The 17 banners hanging from the rafters attest to this. No other NBA franchise can boast that many. 1981-1986 were very good years for the Celtics and for Celtics fans. In Larry Bird's
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Sports Blogs
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Hard to believe it has been 23 years since Len Bias died of a drug overdose. In someways it seems like a distant memory as I was only 10 when he passed and not a huge sports fan at that point. Yet in other ways, with each passing year it seems to
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Right Off Russell
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When Len Bias died, the world mourned. Twenty-three years later, we want to make sure you never forget.
The date was June 19, 1986. I was on my way into this world. Sadly, Len Bias, just a kid himself, was on his way out.
I found it amazing when I
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SLAM Online
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Give it up Mike. Let the Magic go. The season is over. Start writing about Tebow and the Gators!!!
At 8.7 points per game, that video may have contained every basket he made for an entire season.
sorry dude I dont find you funny at all. What I do find
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Orlando Sentinel
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A little more than two days remain until Maryland guard Greivis Vasquez faces a deadline to choose between the NBA and returning to school for his final season of college eligibility.
This protracted wait --- quite possibly, right down to Monday at 5 p.
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Washington Times Blogs
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/d1scourse/2009/jun/13/early-but-not-often/
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Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder:
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Hot Air
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/26/video-fbi-director-congressman-spar-on-gateway-drug/
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About three months ago I wrote this post recalling the round ball phenom that was Len Bias and his subsequent, premature passing. It was the height of the A-Rod saga, or at least I thought it had reached it's apex.
Since then, we've seen a couple of
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Sports Blogs
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MADISON, Wis. -- A Madison man will spend a year and a-half in prison for supplying a friend with a fatal dose of methadone.
James Swenby, 34, pleaded no contest in March to first-degree reckless homicide for giving the pills to his friend Nicholas
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WISC Madison
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Well, there I was, watching the Fringe season finale, merrily taking notes about how much villain David Robert Jones, wrapped in his head bandages, looked and sounded like Claude Rains in the 1933 movie The Invisible Man, and getting goosebumps when,
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Entertainment Weekly
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Fringe showrunner/executive producer Jeff Pinkner has provided an analysis of last night's boggling final scene. Check it out and tell me what you think:
Len Bias was a basketball player for the University of Maryland that had a very promising future
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Entertainment Weekly
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1986—The Boston Celtics win their 16th championship going away, dominating the Ralph Sampson led Houston Rockets. It’s June and the weather in Boston is beautiful.
The Bird Era is set to continue the run of the NBA’s champion of all champions—Red
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SLAM Online
http://slamonline.com/online/blogs/game-notes/2009/05/celticsmagic-game-4-recap/
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JUNEAU A 55-year-old wheelchair-bound Beaver Dam man convicted under the Len Bias Law will spend a year in the Dodge County Jail.
Mark Sire was found guilty on a felony charge of first degree reckless homicide stemming from the February 2008 death of
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The Fond du Lac Reporter
http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20090430/FON0101/90430106/1289&located=RSS
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The mother of a college basketball star who died tragically of a drug overdose delivered a powerful message of personal awareness and responsibility to the student body of Central Middle School Thursday.
Lonise Bias kept the audience of more than 700
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Daily News Journal
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