Marquette Sports Law Review Volume 5 Article 8 Issue 2 Spring Cautious Defense: Should I Be Afraid to Guard You? (Mandatory AIDS Testing in Professional Team Sports) Paul M. Anderson Marquette University Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw Part of the Entertainment and Sports Law Commons Repository Citation Paul M. Anderson, Cautious Defense: Should I Be Afraid to Guard You? (Mandatory AIDS Testing in Professional Team Sports), 5 Marq. Sports L. J. 279 (1995) Available at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw/vol5/iss2/8 This Comment is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. COMMENT CAUTIOUS DEFENSE: SHOULD I BE AFRAID TO GUARD YOU? (Mandatory AIDS Testing in Professional Team Sports) TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ............................................. 280 H. THE FEAR OF AIDS IN PROFESSIONAL TEAM SPORTS ...... 281 A. Magic Johnson ......................................... 281 B. Reality .................................................. 283 II. AN OVERVIEW OF THE DISEASE ........................... 284 A . H IV .................................................... 284 B. Transmission ........................................... 285 IV. ANALOGY TO DRUG TEsTING .............................. 286 A. League Policies......................................... 287 1. The NBA ........................................... 287 2. The NFL and MLB ................................