Who Was Making Fun Of Len Bias?
To Whom It May Concern: I understand that this likely will not impact the success of your site one bit. But after reading the item today about the Len Bias film, I am certain that I will never waste another second of my time clicking onto Deadspin again. I know what the site is about, I know it’s never been intended to be about straight journalism or informed opinion or anything more lofty than entertainment. But Len Bias’s life and death did impact me, as a native of the D.C. area, a Maryland graduate who attended the same time as Bias, and a sports journalist. The way you misrepresented all the stories and the recollections – and what you smirkingly, dismissively and with so much pompous and misplaced superiority called the “legacy” – of Bias, was so inaccurate, so poorly presented, so ignorant, so limited by your shortsighted world view and so painfully juvenile that it’s downright insulting to anybody who really did have his or her live profoundly affected by the incident. We’re n
