European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday july 10, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 25 Knight i Don t feel sorry for Len Bias from press dispatches Pittsburgh Indiana coach Bob Knight told a group of High school basketball players he has no sympathy for Len Bias the former Maryland Star who died of cocaine overdosing task year. Knight made his remarks tuesday to 365 players at the five Star basketball Camp which annually attracts some of the nation s lop High school players to Robert Morris College. In the last 10 years the two Best col lege basketball players i be seen arc Bias and Michael Jordan Knight said. But i Don l feel sorry for Len Bias. Len Bias had his own mind and his own body to take care of and he did t do in. If some of you Are popping pills or smoking dope those Are bad shots you Are taking. Len Bias was better than anybody in this room. But he s dead. He s not sick he s not Bun he s dead. He just was t Strong enough to lat care of himself. He wanted to be one of the boys. He wanted to be Cool. Well he was so Cool he s cold. He s cold As Bias considered Maryland s greatest basketball player died after snorting co Caine june 19,1986, two Days after being drafted by the Boston celtics. Lefty Driesell Bias s College coach said wednesday that Knight must have been quoted out of context. He s out trying to Tell kids not to use drug like i did and the Media tried to put something in there to make him Loo bad said one set from his office on the College Park my Campus. Drissell re signed in the Wake of Bias s death an was Given an administrative Job in the athletic department. I was t there but i Don t have to be there Drissell said. He was in the same position i was. I m sure he did t mean it to come across that last , Drissell said during speech in Rhode Island that cocaine could be performance enhancing for athletes. Drissell said the statement was taken out of context one of Bias s friends Brian Tribble was brought to trial on drug charges re lated to the 22-year-old All american s death. Tribble was in the room Wilh Bias when he died and was accused of Supply ing the cocaine thai killed him. Last month a jury in Prince George county md., acquitted Tribble on All charges. App Emo Indiana s Bob Knight. He wanted to be Cool Sembach tops Span Dahlem in baseball Sembach a Germany John san Villilo lashed a fifth inning bases loaded double to spark the Sembach tigers past the Span Dahlem sabers 7-4 wednesday in Continental sports con Ference baseball. Sembach crept to tour games behind league leading Ramstein. Second place Span Dahlem fell two games behind. Sembach look a 1-0 Lead in
