The Washington Post has ignored the 25th anniversary of the death of Maryland basketball star Len Bias. It’s only the biggest D.C. sports story ever. A few days ago they ran a story by Dave Ungrady urging Maryland to put Bias in its athletic Hall of Fame, but other than that, the Bias story barely got a mention here:
“Today is Sunday, June 19, the 170th day of 2011. There are 195 days left in the year. This is Father’s Day.” They proceed to mention one sentence about Bias. Then they mention today’s birthdays. I love how they say “there are 195 days left in the year.” Thanks. This is what radio stations in Podunk, Iowa do.
The Post’s sports page used to be great. They still have good beat writers, and Jason Reid is an excellent columnist who writes clearly and strongly, without name dropping or using “I” 100 times per article like Mike Wise. But for such a good paper the sports page is lacking.
Whatever happened to the Washington Times sports page with great writers like Thom Loverro, Dave Elfin, Dick Heller, and Dan Daly? You could always count on them.
Anyway, maybe they did something on Bias and it’s just impossible to find. But I think it shows gross negligence to completely ignore the 25th anniversary of Bias’ death. Though Mike Wilbon got very arrogant in the past few years, he would have probably done an article if he were still employed by the Post. And where is John Feinstein? It’s not too late for him to do something in the next week. All these guys have become big stars – that’s part of the problem.
The Post’s coverage of Bias’ death was excellent. A quarter century later, they are asleep at the wheel.
To see my Examiner.com article on the death of Len Bias, published today, click here.
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