Len Bias

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...

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...

Saluting Lefty Driesell, one of basketball's most interesting coaches of all time

2013-02-22 07:17:00

Lefty Driesell’s career at Maryland was coming to an end when a sportswriter who had spent the first 10 years of his career in New York showed up to cover the Terrapins for The Baltimore Sun. It was the summer of 1985 and there were rumors that...

Terps Trio: Inconsistent big men, Lefty Driesell, first football recruit

2013-02-22 07:18:00

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. A lot has been made about the erratic play at point guard this season for the Terps. How has a lack of...

Terps Trio: Dez Wells, Signing Day, football recruiting sleeper

2013-02-01 08:28:00

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. Is Dez Wells Maryland's next great player? Don Markus: A generation of Maryland basketball has...

10 Awkward Questions for Derrick E. Vaughan

2013-01-29 11:29:00

Many English words derive from Latin. Others from Spanish, American Indian, Norwegian. You name a country, an English word probably came from there. But in the grand history of William Shakespeare, some words are invented by brilliant minds. Derrick E....

The Sun remembers: Jan. 20-26

2013-01-20 11:28:00

Jan. 23, 2004: P.J. Wakefield's goal in overtime gives the surging Blast its seventh straight victory, 5-4 over the Monterrey Fury at 1st Mariner Arena. It's the 16th win in 21 games for Baltimore, which will win the Major Indoor Soccer League...

Melo Trimble, 2014 combo guard, commits to the Terps

2012-12-13 08:14:00

Ask Melo Trimble when he started following Maryland basketball and why he developed such an affinity for the Terps and you’re likely to get a lengthy list of reasons from the four-star combo guard. “I’ve been watching Maryland most...

Former Terps football coach Joe Krivak dies at 77

2012-12-26 13:04:00

Bobby Ross got much of the credit for Maryland's short reign as the most dominant team in the Atlantic Coast Conference in the mid 1980s, but Joe Krivak was often referred to as the guru and play-caller for a string of record-setting Terps quarterbacks....

InsideMDSports: Recruits react to Maryland's Big Ten move

2012-11-21 08:37:00

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Among the first questions asked about Maryland’s move to the Big Ten Conference: how will...

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

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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