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'Without Bias': Basketball Career Cut Short Still Resonates Today

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 less than 48 hours after being drafted by the Boston Celtics, feels like...

Len Bias' Legacy, Family's Struggles Captured in Documentary

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 Without Bias at a downtown theater, and afterward spoke to the roughly 75...

Tip-Off Timer: '87 Was End of Bird-Magic, Celtics-Lakers

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 NBA season. On Saturday, there are exactly 87 days left.In the NBA, 1987 was a tough year.That's when it became official the Celtics were never going to be the same again, and neither was the Celtics-Lakers rivalry. Meaning it was also the end of...

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05/04/12 Bias to be inducted into D.C. Hall of Fame Source: The Sentinel Perhaps no local story has had a greater impact on our society over the last quarter century than the tale of Len Bias. Bias, a Prince George's County product, was a basketball star at the University of Maryland in the 1980s.