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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | No Comments »
While most sports have neither required testing nor banned HIV-positive athletes, the United States Boxing Commission denies licenses to HIV-positive boxers and bans them from further competition. Boxers are ... Read more..Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | No Comments »
Policies have now been adopted by most professional, amateur, and recreational sports leagues. Generally, most leagues advocate some variation of universal precautions. This means that leagues now operate ... Read more..Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | No Comments »
A host of ethical and legal considerations surround HIV-positive athletes’ participation in sports. Foremost is the issue of confidentiality. Currently, most leagues and professional organizations do not require mandatory ... Read more..Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | No Comments »
AIDS has impacted sporting bodies in a number of ways. In the first case, the world of sports has had to seriously consider risk of transmission. In addition to ... Read more..Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | 1 Comment »
The public response to athletes with AIDS has varied widely depending on the status and sexual orientation of the athlete. While heterosexual high profile Magic Johnson was labeled a ... Read more..Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | No Comments »
In a November 1991 press conference, the star basketball player Magic Johnson told the world he had tested positive for the HIV virus. In an instant, his announcement changed ... Read more..Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | No Comments »
In the early stages of the epidemic, the emerging threat was largely ignored by the sports world in the United States. As it was incorrectly perceived as a disease contracted ... Read more..Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in AIDS and HIV in Sport | No Comments »
In 1978 gay men in Sweden and the United States and heterosexuals in Tanzania and Haiti began developing unusual symptoms and ailments. In 1982, what at first seemed like a ... Read more..Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Sports Agents | No Comments »
Agents will continue to provide valuable services to athletes. During the past thirty years agents have become prominent stakeholders in professional sports as players have enjoyed significant salary increases and ... Read more..Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Sports Agents | No Comments »
Athletes have several means by which they can seek recourse for abuses by their agents. Just as teams and players may seek judicial and nonjudicial solutions to breaches of the ... Read more..