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(Brian Bahr/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to denounce the 49ers for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/05/domestic-violence-49er-ray-mcdonald-to-play-sunday\" target=\"_blank\">the team's handling\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/01/6668566/49ers-ray-mcdonald-arrested-sunday.html\" target=\"_blank\">felony domestic violence charges\u003c/a> against defensive tackle Ray McDonald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board on Tuesday approved a nonbinding resolution by Supervisor London Breed that calls on the team to keep McDonald from playing until Santa Clara County authorities conclude their investigation into the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/01/6668566/49ers-ray-mcdonald-arrested-sunday.html\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested early Aug. 31\u003c/a>, reportedly after an altercation with his fiancee during a birthday party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/killion/2014/09/07/yes-ray-mcdonald-will-play-today-for-the-49ers/\" target=\"_blank\">has been widely criticized\u003c/a> for allowing McDonald to play in the team's season opener on Sunday despite the charges. Head coach Jim Harbaugh has said McDonald is entitled to constitutional due process rights before the team acts, a stance reiterated\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2014/09/09/jed-york/\" target=\"_blank\"> during a KNBR interview Tuesday\u003c/a> by team owner Jed York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#breedresolution\">Breed's resolution\u003c/a> argues that \"while criminal defendants are innocent until proven guilty and prosecutors must prove charges beyond a reasonable doubt, the threshold of accountability should rightly be lower for decisions about participating in a corporate athletic event for the public’s entertainment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also noted that former 49ers players have supported the idea of keeping McDonald off the field while Santa Clara County law enforcement officials investigate the case. And she mentions that when San Francisco city employees face serious criminal charges related to their jobs, it's standard operating procedure to put them on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution comes a day after the issue of domestic violence committed by NFL players leaped again into national headlines with \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/08/ray-rice-elevator-knockout-fiancee-takes-crushing-punch-video/\" target=\"_blank\">the disclosure of a video\u003c/a> showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching and knocking out his fiancee in a New Jersey hotel elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice reached a plea agreement in that February incident that allowed him to avoid trial on aggravated assault charges. NFL Commission Roger Goodell later suspended Rice for two games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leniency of that penalty \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/sports/football/roger-goodell-defends-his-two-game-suspension-of-ray-rice.html\" target=\"_blank\">prompted outrage\u003c/a> from domestic violence survivors and their supporters and from many voices in the media. On Aug. 28, three days before McDonald's arrest, Goodell admitted \"I didn't get it right\" in the Rice case and announced a new disciplinary policy, summarized this way \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/sports/football/roger-goodell-admits-he-was-wrong-and-alters-nfl-policy-on-domestic-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\">by The New York Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... Any N.F.L. employee — not only a player — who is found to have engaged in assault, battery, domestic violence or sexual assault that involved physical force will be suspended without pay for six games for a first offense. Second-time offenders will be banished from the league for at least one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodell said that second-time offenders could petition to be reinstated after one year, but that “there will be no presumption or assurance that the petition will be granted.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Ravens immediately terminated Rice's contract after the entertainment news site TMZ.com published the knockout video Monday. The NFL followed suit by suspending Rice from the league indefinitely. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146315\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 370px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146315 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Aldon_Smith_in_2012.jpg\" alt=\"Aldon_Smith_in_2012\" width=\"370\" height=\"399\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aldon Smith in 2012 (Mike Morbeck/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers' All-Pro linebacker Aldon Smith has been suspended by the NFL for nine games due to violations of its personal conduct and substance abuse policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/07/report-49ers-bracing-for-6-8-game-suspension-for-aldon-smith/\" target=\"_blank\">speculation\u003c/a> had been that Smith would receive a penalty of six to eight games. But the suspension will put him out until Monday, Nov. 10, and he will miss games against the Cowboys, Bears, Cardinals, Eagles, Chiefs, Rams and Saints. The first game Smith would be eligible for is against the New York Giants on Nov. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith's legal troubles have been well publicized. Last month, \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">a Santa Clara County judge sentenced him \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">to 11 days on a work crew, three years probation and 235 hours of community service for illegal weapons possession and drunken driving. Smith pleaded no contest to the charges.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USA Today has \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/49ers/2014/08/29/aldon-smith-san-francisco-nfl/14793107/\" target=\"_blank\">additional details\u003c/a> on the negotations that went on behind the scenes over the suspension:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A person with knowledge of the process, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said Smith's representatives and the league reached a settlement that allows him to be at the team facility and in meetings during his suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspension didn't come down until Friday because talks were ongoing, the person said, and the final sticking point was whether the ban would be eight or nine games – four games for the substance-abuse violation and either four or five for personal conduct.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The recent suspension of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1084156/NFL-star-Ray-Rice-drags-unconscious-fiancee-elevator-fight.html\" target=\"_blank\">domestic violence incident\u003c/a> has weighed on the Smith decision. Rice's two-game suspension drew widespread criticism as a slap on the wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers/ci_26433361/49ers-aldon-smith-draws-nine-game-suspension\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a letter Thursday to NFL owners, Goodell set forth a stronger policy against domestic violence and sexual assault. He also wrote about other infractions involving weapons offenses and drunken driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition to focusing on domestic violence and sexual assault, we will continue to maintain strong policies regarding weapons offenses,\" Goodell wrote. \"We are similarly working to strengthen our response to impaired driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have sought — unsuccessfully — for several years to obtain the NFLPA's agreement to more stringent discipline for DUI, including mandatory deactivation for the game immediately following an arrest and a minimum two-game suspension for a first violation of law. We will continue to press our position on this issue in the hope of securing the union's agreement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most suspensions for personal-conduct violations have ranged between one and eight games since Goodell became commissioner in 2006. Prior to Smith's ruling, Goodell recently drew widespread criticism for suspending Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice only two games after a domestic-violence incident.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Smith missed five games last year to enter a substance abuse program. The Niners won all five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Niners All-Pro linebacker, NaVorro Bowman, will miss at least six games as he rehabs from a knee injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apropos of NFL suspension times, here's a \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nfl-domestic-violence-policy-suspensions/\">FiveThirtyEight feature\u003c/a> from yesterday looking at how much involuntary time off people received for different violations over the NFL's history. Most of these personal conduct suspensions have been for one to five games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full story on the Aldon Smith suspension from AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith has been suspended for nine games by the NFL after a series of off-field legal issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement Friday from the league said Smith had violated the NFL's substance abuse and personal conduct policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith won't be eligible to return until Nov. 10, the day after the 49ers' game against the New Orleans Saints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our organization has known this decision would come and we have prepared for it as a team,\" 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. \"Aldon has taken responsibility for his actions and has continued to show growth personally and professionally. We will continue to support him, but it is time to put this matter behind us and focus on the season ahead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 24-year-old Smith, one of the NFL's top pass rushers, missed five games last season to undergo treatment at an in-patient facility following his DUI arrest Sept. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before training camp began last month, the 24-year-old Smith was sentenced to serve three years of probation and to spend 11 days with a work crew after he pleaded no contest to drunken driving and weapons charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has repeatedly said he has been sober since his DUI arrest last September. Smith played in a 27-7 home loss to the Colts on Sept. 22, two days after he was arrested and jailed on suspicion of DUI and marijuana possession. After the game, he publicly apologized for his behavior and later announced he would leave for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Niners went on a five-game winning streak without him, Smith's menacing presence was sorely missed. The team still picked up his 2015 contract option this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his latest run-in with the law, Smith was arrested April 13 at Los Angeles International Airport. Police said Smith was randomly selected for a secondary screening and became uncooperative with the process, telling a TSA agent that he had a bomb. No charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, he pleaded not guilty to three felony counts of illegal possession of an assault weapon, stemming from a June 2012 party at his home. Investigators said several shots were fired, two partygoers were injured and Smith was stabbed. 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It’s very nice,” Pinkus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s very nice because 90 percent of the water in this part of the river comes from a couple of treatment plants upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Glendale Narrows is one of the greenest stretches of the river, and it’s where the boat race will be held on Aug. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 100 racers will canoe, kayak or stand-up paddle on a three-quarter-mile route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers hope to attract residents from the working-class Elysian Valley neighborhood next to the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, you still have a very mixed population, and we thought it’d be kind of interesting for youth in that neighborhood to see. ‘Wow, I could not only live next to the L.A. River, I might actually paddle on it and race, once I learn how to paddle,’ ” said organizer Anthea Raymond, with L.A. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/1282757-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145206\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/1282757-1-640x445.jpg\" alt=\"James Page, left, in a 1999 welterweight bout against Sam Garr. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Page, left, in a 1999 welterweight bout against Sam Garr. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Starting in the mid-1990s, James \"The Mighty Quinn\" Page fought near or at the top of the professional boxing world's welterweight division. He \"hit like a mule,\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.boxing.com/a_fall_from_grace.html\" target=\"_blank\"> according to one assessment\u003c/a> of his career. He was rated highly for his stamina and ability to take a punch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Page, who grew up in what his most recent lawyer describes as a violent and drug-ridden household in Pittsburg, is arguably better known now for how he spent his time outside the ring. As Page began to find success in the ring, he also started amassing what became a long criminal rap sheet, including felony drug possession, drug trafficking, robbery, and theft, in addition to a long list of misdemeanor convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he lost his title once and for all in 2001, he committed several unarmed bank robberies in Georgia. He was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison, got out in 2012 and, at the age of 41, returned to the East Bay. He later told a neuropsychologist retained to examine him that when he came home \"he had no idea how to earn a living. He could not get a job. He did try one fight. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bout was part of a card in Sacramento in November 2012. Here's how Boxing.com \u003ca href=\"http://www.boxing.com/a_fall_from_grace.html\" target=\"_blank\">describes the proceedings\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>James Page made his short-lived comeback in November 2012 against ultra-limited Rahman Mustafa “Genghis Khan” Yusubov, a native of Azerbaijan. After a decent first round, Page lost by second round KO via a left hook-right cross combo that put him away. This was Genghis’s only win in his last ten bouts. Fortunately, Page wasn’t seriously injured in the bout—one that arguably should never have been sanctioned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145198\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 306px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/76262_428483523884438_1520509733_n-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/76262_428483523884438_1520509733_n-1-458x640.jpg\" alt=\"Poster advertising James Page's final fight, in November 2012. He was knocked out in the second round.\" width=\"306\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster advertising James Page's final fight, in November 2012. He was knocked out in the second round.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The aftermath? Page unsuccessfully tried to find work as a trainer. Then, a few months later, still under supervised release from his earlier conviction, he launched another series of unarmed bank robberies. His modus operandi was to hand tellers a note demanding cash, and since he wore collared shirts in an apparent attempt to conceal a tattoo on his neck, he was called the Button-Down Bandit. Between early March and mid-June of last year, Page hit eight banks and netted a total of about $17,000. He pleaded guilty to six of the heists, and Tuesday he was sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page's public defender, Ellen Leonida, had argued for a lighter sentence — five years and three months. She cited a series of extenuating circumstances, including neglect Page suffered as a child and the fact he committed his bank jobs without resorting to violence. But most of her argument turns on the physical effects of Page's chosen profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the course of his boxing career, thousands of blows were inflicted to James Page’s head, ultimately causing severe, permanent damage to his brain,\" Leonida wrote in a sentencing memorandum.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Friedman, a Walnut Creek neuropsychologist who examined the boxer to help determine whether he was competent to stand trial, found Page suffering from a wide range of cognitive problems and \"severely impaired\" memory. He speculated on the probable cause:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The difficulties that [Page] has with aspects of his cognitive function are consistent with his reported history. He had a number of concussions related to having been a professional boxer. His boxing career had been associated with the number of times that he was knocked out or dazed, which would qualify as traumatic brain injury. Although an individual might recover from a single traumatic brain injury, multiple injuries have been described as producing chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Another way brain trauma from boxing has been characterized is dementia pugilistic, that is, a dementia induced by boxing which produces blows to the head. Dementia is defined as impairment in memory and at least one other cognitive domain. There are many possible causes of dementia. The most well-known is Alzheimer’s. However, traumatic brain injury is another cause and boxing particularly has been identified as one with the above mentioned name of dementia pugilistic. That is clearly the case with Mr. Page as he does have impairment with memory and impairment with concept formation and executive functioning.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area News Group reporter David DeBolt \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_26346616/once-pittsburgs-champion-world-former-boxer-james-page\" target=\"_blank\">recounted most of this history\u003c/a> in a nicely done piece published last week. He concluded by speaking to Page's wife, Marquita, with whom he has a 7-month-old daughter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This month, Marquita Page took a drive from her home in Oakley to Oakland, as she does twice a week, with her young daughter Jariah, to visit Page at the North County Jail. It was one of the last times she will see him there before he is moved to a federal facility, likely farther away. His mother, Pamela Page, was there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm going to tell her the positive things about him,\" Marquita Page said of her daughter. \"The saddest thing is when I take her, she stands up to the glass and wants to touch his face but she can't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a deep sadness in his eyes.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sara Hossaini\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/07/cal-football-player-dies-during-drill/tedagu/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125602\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/tedagu-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"UC Berkeley football player Ted Agu, in image released today by Cal. \" width=\"640\" height=\"362\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley football player Ted Agu, in image released by Cal.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/163185658&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast Feb. 7, Cal football player Ted Agu \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/07/cal-football-player-dies-during-drill/\">collapsed and died\u003c/a> following an off-season training drill. A walk-on defensive player who had worked hard to earn a scholarship, Agu was a popular player known as “Pre-Med Ted” for his ambition to go to medical school. His death devastated family, friends and teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that tragedy is the focus of a wrongful death lawsuit by Agu’s parents, who say the university failed to take adequate precautions to respond to a potentially deadly medical condition their son had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That condition, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/traits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sickle cell trait\u003c/a>, is found in people who have inherited just one of the two genes that cause sickle cell disease. Sickle cell trait itself is not uncommon: It’s found in about 8 percent of the African-American population, and it’s distinct from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/facts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sickle cell disease\u003c/a> that afflicts people who inherit the gene from both parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Agu’s family and lawyers say Cal officials knew he had sickle cell trait and should have been monitoring him more carefully.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Agu lawsuit shines a spotlight both on what Cal officials knew about the player’s sickle cell status and on a debate about what measures should be taken to protect student athletes with the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Thomas Beaver, Alameda County’s former chief forensic pathologist, performed the initial autopsy on Agu shortly after he died on Feb. 7. He says he observed that Agu’s heart was somewhat enlarged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not what I would call a severe case, it’s not incompatible with life,” Beaver says. He adds that the discovery led him to focus on \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000192.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hypertrophic cardiomyopathy\u003c/a>, a condition that leads to abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, as a possible cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver says he was told Agu suddenly collapsed during a conditioning drill and couldn’t be revived, a sequence of events that suggested a sudden cardiac event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Surprise Discovery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Beaver got slides of Agu’s heart tissue and set out to confirm his theory. It was only then that he made a surprising discovery: abnormal, “sickled” red blood cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t discover the sickle cell until I was looking at the tissues under the microscope, and I was shocked to see it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”F0CIL9dEcUFt44dGs4JwecbAsGhwWPM4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver says that none of the medical records he saw suggested Agu had sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I mean I didn’t expect that at all,” says Beaver. He adds that after discovering the condition, he asked Agu’s family for medical records to learn more about the player’s sickle cell history, but he never received any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coroner’s records show that a nurse at Alta Bates who reported Agu’s death mentioned a “history of sickle cell anemia.” Beaver said that statement was nonspecific and never substantiated. Beaver says “history” could have referred to Agu or his family, and sickle cell “anemia” or “disease” is different from sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparent absence of documentation of Agu’s sickle cell status is remarkable in light of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncaa.org/health-and-safety/medical-conditions/sickle-cell-trait\">an NCAA policy that took effect in 2010\u003c/a> that acknowledges sickle cell trait’s potential danger and requires athletes to undergo sickle cell tests or submit the results of prior tests. UC Berkeley says \u003ca href=\"http://uhs.berkeley.edu/students/athletics/pdf/Sickle%20Cell%20Parent%20Letter,%20Final%20Spring%202011.pdf\">it complies\u003c/a> with the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Beaver’s synopsis of Agu’s cause of death stated the player died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy “based on the information available to me at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you read my comment carefully,” he says, “it’s very hesitant on the diagnosis and it leaves a lot of room for the sickle cell to become the diagnosis, given history or more information or whatever, so I agonized over each of those words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Agu’s family said during a press conference earlier this month that the player, a defensive star at Bakersfield’s Frontier High School, had tested positive for sickle cell trait in 2010, before he came to Cal. They say the school later confirmed that finding. The family’s suit says Agu’s status meant coaches and trainers should have been monitoring him more carefully during the tough Feb. 7 workout session and should have responded much more promptly when they realized he was in distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t die within seconds from the onset of his symptoms,” said attorney Steven Yerrid. “A sickling athlete has very, very definitive symptomatology, it’s very well known. The problem is you have to have people watching, and you have to have people intervening, and looking out for the welfare of the student athlete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges that Cal was negligent in hiring and supervising one of the trainers overseeing the workout that preceded Agu’s death. That’s because the trainer was also present during what the lawsuit calls a “remarkably similar” 2008 incident at the University of Central Florida, when another player with sickle cell trait died after a workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement responding to the lawsuit, UC Berkeley reiterated that it follows “all recommended protocols, including those outlined by the NCAA, for all student-athletes with identified medical conditions” — including the requirement for sickle cell testing. The statement also said that the university provided all “relevant medical records — including the results of all medical testing — to the Alameda County coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the pending litigation, Cal officials would not say whether the records it provided included information on Agu’s sickle cell status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Big a Danger? And How to Respond?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the case begins wending its way through Alameda County Superior Court, medical experts are divided on the magnitude of the danger posed by sickle cell trait and on the best way to respond to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that kids die of sickle trait,” says Dr. Frans Kuypers. He studies sickle cell trait and its impact on athletes at UCSF-Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In most of the cases, the kids die of very different kind of things that have nothing to do with sickle trait,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuypers says the risk factors for problems associated with sickle cell trait, and how they vary among athletes, are not well understood or well studied. He’s partnering with UC Berkeley on a $100,000 grant from the National Football League to undertake just such a study. He hopes to find out why, for example, one athlete is more likely to have trouble playing in altitude, while another may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other experts say there is evidence that sickle cell trait has killed athletes during workouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. John Strouse is an assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who studies and treats patients with sickle cell conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been reports from the military where they looked at military recruits undergoing basic training by their sickle cell trait status,” says Strouse, “and they had a much greater risk of having serious heat-related injury” or dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strouse says the military opted to use “universal precautions” that apply to all recruits, regardless of sickle cell status, including proper hydration and more breaks from exercise when it’s hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One medical organization, the American Society of Hematology, says that for a variety of reasons, that approach \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/26/145923225/blood-doctors-call-foul-on-ncaas-screening-for-sickle-cell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes more sense\u003c/a> than the NCAA’s testing requirement. 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It was only then that he made a surprising discovery: abnormal, “sickled” red blood cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t discover the sickle cell until I was looking at the tissues under the microscope, and I was shocked to see it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver says that none of the medical records he saw suggested Agu had sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I mean I didn’t expect that at all,” says Beaver. He adds that after discovering the condition, he asked Agu’s family for medical records to learn more about the player’s sickle cell history, but he never received any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coroner’s records show that a nurse at Alta Bates who reported Agu’s death mentioned a “history of sickle cell anemia.” Beaver said that statement was nonspecific and never substantiated. 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Commissioner of Baseball\u003c/a> — or rather, on a key part of the city’s case that focuses on Major League Baseball’s exemption from federal antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials filed the suit last year in an attempt to force major league owners to let the Oakland A’s relocate to the South Bay. That move has been blocked for five years by the San Francisco Giants, the franchise that holds baseball’s territorial rights to San Jose and the rest of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s action is an appeal of a lower court’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24290747/judge-dismisses-san-jose-antitrust-claims-against-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissal of most of San Jose’s case\u003c/a>. A three-judge panel will hear about 20 minutes of oral argument from each side. The judges aren’t expected to issue a ruling until sometime this fall, and either side might appeal their decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Tuesday’s proceedings will be streamed live \u003ca href=\"http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000006503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In advance of the hearing, I spoke with Nathaniel Grow, a law professor at the University of Georgia who specializes in sports law and has written \u003ca href=\"http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/56snn7zy9780252038198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book\u003c/a> on the \u003ca href=\"http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/259/200/case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1922 Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> that has protected the major leagues from antitrust actions in the past. Grow says the law is not on San Jose’s side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got not only three Supreme Court decisions that are binding precedents, but the 9th Circuit has their own binding precedent from the 1970s, saying that this very same issue, relocation of franchises, is covered by baseball’s antitrust exemption. San Jose has to get out of that and come up with some way to convince the judges on the 9th Circuit to ignore all that and rule in their favor. Whereas Major League Baseball’s case is much cleaner. All they have to do is say, ‘Look, this is what the law is, this is how it applies’ — there really isn’t a lot of discretion for the appellate court to exercise its judgment here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow says the last time that Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption came before the Supreme Court was in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there the Supreme Court said, ‘You know, Congress has known about this for 50 years at this point. They’ve thought about acting, they’ve never acted, so it’s not our place to touch it now. That would be unfair to Major League Baseball to reverse this protection that they’ve been relying on for five decades.’ And I think if this case were to get to the Supreme Court level, that’d be the argument — 40 years later, is it even less fair to MLB to act, or is Congress being so negligent that it’s time for the court to step in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow rates San Jose’s chances of succeeding at the 9th Circuit at less than 10 percent, and he thinks the high court would probably decline to hear an appeal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if the Supreme Court does take the case, then I think that’s a really bad sign for Major League Baseball. I don’t see the court wading into this highly contentious, controversial issue for a fourth time only to issue what is sure to be a highly criticized opinion affirming baseball’s antitrust exemption. So, if the Supreme Court agrees to take the case, San Jose would likely win one way or another, either through a settlement or a judicial decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Grow if San Jose’s argument — that the A’s want to move, and only MLB’s intransigence is stopping them — was damaged when the A’s owners \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/06/Coliseum-board-approves-10-year-deal-with-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a 10-year lease extension at the Oakland Coliseum last week\u003c/a> and said they’re talking with architects and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26287681/approach-architect-oakland-ballpark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking at sites for a new ballpark in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it certainly doesn’t help, in part because it casts doubt on San Jose’s standing to bring a suit — since they can’t claim damages for losing a baseball team that they might have never had:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, courts have often said unless a team is 100 percent contractually committed to moving, there is no case yet. And that would be the worst possible outcome for San Jose — for the 9th Circuit to rule that there’s no standing here. If the 9th Circuit affirms the dismissal on ‘no standing’ grounds, there’s very, very, very little chance the Supreme Court would review that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that the court won’t be ruling for a few months, I asked Grow what clues might we get from the oral arguments? He cautioned against trying to read too much into questions from the bench:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially here, where the city faces such a strong uphill climb to get over those Supreme Court precedents. The judges will undoubtedly ask some pointed questions of Major League Baseball, because they have to treat both sides a little critically in order to be fair. But if you started to get the sense that at least two of the three judges are willing to disregard precedent — or if they start to suggest the precedents are so outdated that it isn’t binding any more — that’s the type of language that might get San Jose a victory here. It’s much more likely, though, that the judges are critical of San Jose’s case, and that indicates they’re likely to rule for Major League Baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They said some of the relief sought by the plaintiffs would allow for third parties to play players and that universities would lose control of their programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several players testified during the trial that they viewed playing sports as their main occupation in college, saying the many hours they had to devote to the sport made it difficult — if not impossible — to function like regular students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Bannon portrayed himself as a dedicated athlete who would stay after games to work on his shot if needed, but not much of a student. He said his job at UCLA was to play basketball and took up so much time that just making it to class was difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was an athlete masquerading as a student,\" said O'Bannon, star of the 1995 UCLA team that won the national title. \"I was there strictly to play basketball. I did basically the minimum to make sure I kept my eligibility academically so I could continue to play.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But witnesses called by the NCAA during the trial spoke of the education provided athletes as payment for their services and said the college model has functioned well for more than a century. They contended that paying players would make college sports less popular and could force schools to cut other programs funded by the hundreds of millions of dollars taken in by big time athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the Big Ten painted a dire picture of what college sports would look like in his testimony, saying his conference would likely cease to exist and the Rose Bowl would probably not be played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Delany said the idea of paying players goes against the entire college experience and he couldn't see league members agreeing to it. If some did, he said, they likely would be kicked out of the conference because the move would create an imbalance among schools that could not be resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There wouldn't be a Rose Bowl if either they or we were operating in a very different wavelength in terms of paying players,\" Delany said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That theme has since been echoed by college and conference administrators, even as they move forward on plans — prompted by the O'Bannon suit and others — to give expanded benefits to athletes in the 65 schools that comprise the five biggest conferences in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I fear that we will get past the change and then we'll realize that all the gymnastics programs went away, or that we have agents on campus all the time negotiating playing time for student athletes,\" Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in July. \"There's all kind of Armageddon scenarios you could come up with. ... 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