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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 28, 1996
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Massachusetts to require HIV test for boxers
The Associated Press
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Boxing Commission will implement mandatory testing for the virus that causes AIDS starting with a fight March 15.
"The decision is for the protection of the fighters and the people who come in contact with the fighters, like the referees or the physicians," said Skeeter McClure, the commission's chairman.
"It's a contact sport where fluids, namely blood, is exchanged through clutching or gloves or other ways.
It's in the best interest of everybody."
McClure and the commission's other two members, Ben Doherty and Jocko Annian, unanimously approved mandatory HIV testing on Feb. 16, six days after heavyweight Tommy Morrison tested positive for HIV when he applied for a license to box in Las Vegas.
However, the rule will not be in effect for an eight-match card at the Dorchester Armory March 8 in Boston. McClure told the State House News Service that forcing boxers to be tested for HIV would
place an undue burden on the fighters and handlers because they would be coming from around the world.
The next scheduled bout, March 15 at Wonderland Greyhound Park, will be the first in which test results must be submitted.
Before Morrison's announcement, eight boxing commissions — Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Puerto Rico — required HIV testing.
Since then, New York commission chairman Floyd Patterson has said
New York soon will start testing for HIV. Other states have indicated they will follow suit.
The Massachusetts regulation is modeled after Nevada's, in which boxes are tested for HIV annually and must submit results when applying for a license. The boxers would have to pay for the tests.
McClure said he and the other commission members had talked about mandatory testing in the past but decided to take action once word began leaking Feb. 11 that Morrison had tested positive for HIV.
Judge increases NFL salary cap by $2 million
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — What the NFL likes to call its partnership with its players union is a little shaky again because of a court ruling, which increases the salary cap for 1996 by almost $2 million.
The decision was handed down Monday in Minneapolis by U.S. District Court Judge David Doty, who has retained ultimate jurisdiction of
the league's labor matters since presiding over a 1992 antitrust suit, which led to the league's labor agreement.
Doty's ruling raises next season's cap from $38,773 million to $40,753 million. The lower figure, up from $37.1 million last year, had been set by independent auditors for the league and the NFL Players Association.
Under the contract, the projected
cap for each year is determined by the growth of the previous season. Because of 1995's growth, the cap should increase by $2 million, Doty said.
But the league argues that last season's growth was artificial because of the addition of the two expansion teams, the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars.
But Doty's decision may not be negative to everyone because it
gives teams more money with which they could pursue free agents.
The Dallas Cowboys, who have lost 21 players in four years to free agency, have been struggling to get under the cap.
"It can certainly fracture the sprit de corps of a team," Dallas coach Barry Switzer said. "The day of loyalty to a team is over. They go play for the dollar."
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