Guest post by Sally Jenkins (this article was first published February 7, 1986 four months before his death).
Len Bias got a fur coat the other day, which he wears with jeans when he is in his radical chic mood and is tired of the leather trench coat with the ermine collar. The overall effect is startling, so much so that Maryland Coach Charles G. Driesell stopped in the middle of Cole Field House and said: "Okay, so where did you get that one?"
That Maryland's 6-foot-8 forward is aesthetically inclined should not shock anyone who has witnessed the all-America on a basketball court, where a routine evening is just another elegant 20 points or so and the quelling of a shrieking gymnasium.