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ONE SHOCK WAVE AFTER ANOTHER
Craig Neff
November 10, 1986
The cocaine death of Len Bias, the Maryland basketball star, has prompted criticism of the school's athletic policies—and last week led to coach Lefty Driesell's resignation
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November 10, 1986

One Shock Wave After Another

The cocaine death of Len Bias, the Maryland basketball star, has prompted criticism of the school's athletic policies—and last week led to coach Lefty Driesell's resignation

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"One of the things I've found it necessary to do is remember the poem If, by Rudyard Kipling," says Slaughter. " 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,/If you can-trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too'; I say that to myself a lot of times."

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