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Although the knighthood was granted in 1959, Guinness does not consider himself on the same level as England's great aristocrats of the theater: John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and the late Ralph Richardson. "I'm just not," he says. "It's as simple as that. It doesn't worry me. I never pretended to be." But he has known and, with characteristic detachment, admired all three...
...commissioner's crackdown came just three days after the National Basketball Association dealt with a drug problem of its own. The New Jersey Nets' talented point guard, Micheal ("Sugar") Ray Richardson, who tested positive for cocaine use for the third time, was banned from playing in the N.B.A...
February, 1986. NBA commissioner David Stern announces that three-time All-Star Michael Ray Richardson is banned from playing in the NBA for at least two years. Richardson admits to having a cocaine problem despite twice going through the league-sanctioned drug rehabilitation center...
While neither the players, the owners, or the leagues are solely to blame for the problem, each makes its contribution. Obviously, the players are most responsible because they are the ones causing the problem. But, as the Richardson case demonstrates, the leagues and owners are not doing enough to solve the problem...
...before Stern banned Richardson, he was at the top of his game. Richardson was second in the NBA in steals, and was averaging seven assists per game this season. Judging from his play, the average fan could not have known that he was addicted to cocaine...