ABSTRACT
Events of the 1990s shocked many sports fans. Basketball fans were stunned when the legendary Earvin “Magic” Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers announced on November 7, 1991, that he had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Tennis fans felt a loss when they learned that Arthur Ashe, the first African American man to win Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens, died of complications related to HIV/AIDS in 1993. And aquatic sports fans soberly absorbed the announcement in 1994 by Greg Louganis, the winner of four Olympic gold medals, that he, too, had HIV. By comparison, few people heard about Ryan White, an adolescent who contracted the disease several years earlier (see Figure 8.1 ).
