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WIZARD of ID
DOONESBURY CLASSIC 1993
CALVIN AND HOBBES
DILBERT
Created by Peter Ritmeester/Presented by Will Shortz
SUDOKU No. 0808
Fill the grid so
that every row,
column 3x3 box
and shaded 3x
box contains
each of the
numbers
1 to 9 exactly
once.
Fill the grids with digits so as not
to repeat a digit in any row or
column, and so that the digits
within each heavily outlined box
will produce the target number
shown, by using addition,
subtraction, multiplication or
division, as indicated in the box.
A 4x4 grid will use the digits
1-4. A 6x6 grid will use 1-6.
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Solution No. 0708 CROSSWORD | Edited by Will Shortz
Across
1 osé, to amigosJ
5 Going rate
9 Motion pictures?
14 Company with a for-
profit foundation?
15 Improvisational style
16 Gondolier,
maybe
17 *Boo during a
baseball game
19 See 60-Across
20 Ricky’s player on old
TV
21 Around 20%, typically
23 Modern alternative to
a garage sale
24 2/
25 *Tin has been in them
since 1929
29 “I’d like another”
31 Philistine-fighting king
32 Org. with Huskies and
Bulldogs
33 One way to get help
35 Class for a physiology
major, informally
37 *Tar remover
43 Letters on an N.L.
Central cap
44 Was first
45 Spanish feminine
pronoun
46 Implores
49 Number one
51 *Ken, for one
55 Campground sights
56 Prefix meaning
“height”
57 Cable news anchor
Cabrera
58 Home of about 25% of
U.N. member states
60 With 19-Across,
reconsider ... or a hint
to the starts of the five
starred clues
62 *Can components
66 Member of Dubya’s
cabinet
67 843 acres, for New
York’s Central Park
68 Princess whose
brother is not a prince
69 Invited over for lunch,
say
70 Crawl (with)
71 Its min. score is 120
Down
1 Possible maker of a
muddy footprint
2 Law school
class
3 Climbing vegetables
4 Discontinues
5 Letter that sounds like
an expression of relief
6 Be dramatic?
7 Stickers in a plant
store
8 Law school
class
9 Not dither
10 Casualties of violent
storms
11 Out, of sorts
12 Show the highlights
13 Hearts that don’t beat
very much?
18 ___ de gallo
22 “Buckle Up,
Dummies” ad, e.g.
24 A fan (of)
26 ___ tradition
27 Interlace
28 Lazy river transport
30 Winner of five
swimming gold
medals at the 1988
Olympics
34 on of Arizona politicsJ
36 Figures calculated
using crude estimates
38 Pianist Templeton
39 azzman StanJ
40 Object of veneration
41 Part of a notable
1993 breakup
42 Some parlor designs,
informally
47 Scholarship
application fig.
48 Portable shade
provider
50 Zenith
51 Close securely
52 L.P.G.A. great Lorena
53 Daily monotony
54 Angola’s northern
neighbor, once
59 Place to grow some
herbs
61 Family
63 “Well, I’ll be!”
64 opping on a T
Hawaiian pizza
65 Lost one’s standing?
PUZZLE BY TIMOTHY POLIN
Solution to Aug 7 Puzzle
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17 18 19
20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28
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32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63 64 65
66 67 68
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E A R T H D A Y S L E E P Y
C I A O P L O O A K
E N T R E E U N D E R W A Y
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O D O N P E S T U B O L T
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P A C E R S T A T S S E W
Sports
Pat English, a lawyer with long and in-
fluential ties to boxing, was delivering a
history lesson on various United States
government guidelines for the sport
when he flashed a black-and-white pho-
tograph of a young fighter.
The boxer’s name was Stephan John-
son, a junior middleweight who had
fought three times (and most likely sus-
tained at least one brain injury) in the
seven months leading up to his United
States Boxing Association title fight
against Paul Vaden in November 1999.
Johnson was under a medical suspen-
sion that was not recognized by some lo-
cal boxing commissions, and despite his
trainer’s objections he was eager to re-
turn to the ring so he could earn enough
money to move his mother out of public
housing.
Johnson lost the fight, and his life.
Knocked out in the 10th round, he was
rushed to a hospital where surgeons
drilled two holes in his skull. He died two
weeks later at 31.
English, who was at that fight, re-
called some of those details last week as
he spoke at a meeting of the people who
regulate the sport and are grappling
with fresh tragedies that feel too famil-
iar.
Two boxers died days apart last
month after sustaining brain injuries in
the ring. Maxim Dadashev, a 28-year-
old Russian, died on July 23, four days
after a light welterweight fight in Mary-
land. Hugo Alfredo Santillán, a 23-year-
old Argentine, died on July 25, five days
after collapsing at the end of a light-
weight fight in Buenos Aires. Santillán
had fought to a draw.
Their deaths framed conversations at
the annual meeting of the Association of
Boxing Commissions, where directors
of state and tribal commissions exam-
ined policies central to boxing and other
combat sports they supervise at a local
level. They touched on drug testing, con-
cussion protocols and even social media
decorum for referees (the primary mes-
sage there: Don’t tweet dumb stuff ).
But the discussions kept returning to a
basic idea: Boxing is inherently danger-
ous, and fighters depend on the rules to
prevent the worst possible injuries.
“Sometimes I wonder why I’m doing
this for a living,” Mike Mazzulli, the de-
parting president of the association,
said in a telephone interview after the
meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz. “But if I’m
not doing it, no one will.”
The regulators, and others in the
sport, are still seeking answers.
“This is a time where we all need to go
back to the drawing board and under-
stand what is happening,” Mauricio Su-
laiman, the president of the World Box-
ing Council, said in a speech at the meet-
ing. “Because something is happening.”
Sulaiman, whose organization sanc-
tioned Santillán’s deadly fight, contin-
ued: “Any boxer who goes to the ring is
willing to do whatever he has to do to
win — whatever he has to do to be suc-
cessful and make money for his family. If
you ask him to fight 20 rounds, he will do
whatever it takes. They’re warriors. It’s
our duty to protect them from them-
selves.”
That’s quite a demand for the people
Sulaiman addressed. Boxing is not syn-
onymous with health and safety.
“People are going to get hurt, and peo-
ple are going to die,” Dr. Michael
Schwartz, a co-chairman of the medical
advisory committee for the A.B.C., said
while speaking about the liability issues
involved in practicing ringside medi-
cine. “But we’re here to do everything
we can to minimize those risks.”
One area where the sport can im-
prove, regulators said, is oversight of
how boxers cut weight before fights.
The former light heavyweight world
champion Andre Ward, who last fought
in 2017, said on the day Santillán died
that it was crucial to do more monitoring
of rapid weight loss just before bouts —
and of the resulting dehydration.
“Lack of fluid around the brain in-
creases the risk of a brain bleed,” Ward
wrote on Twitter.
Because weigh-ins typically happen
the day before the fight, boxers spend
about 24 hours regaining as much
weight as possible. But their bodies can-
not absorb fluids again in such a short
period of time, often leaving fighters de-
hydrated — a condition that can hurt vi-
tal organs and leave the brain less pro-
tected than usual.
The W.B.C. introduced a pilot pro-
gram this year that called for more
weigh-ins in the days and weeks leading
up to fights, plus one final weigh-in on
the day of the fight itself to gauge just
how many pounds each boxer was gain-
ing at essentially the last minute.
Andy Foster, the executive officer of
the California State Athletic Commis-
sion, has been charting the weight fluc-
tuations of boxers in his state. His find-
ings: Of 1,594 boxers studied in a three-
year period through 2018, 306 had
gained more than 10 percent of their
body weight in the roughly 24 hours be-
fore their fights.
Foster shook his head when sharing
that information and said he supposed
that ignoring his findings would be easi-
er than the alternative.
“But I don’t want it to be easier,” he
said. “I now know this information, so
we have to do something with it.”
Foster said he was going to start can-
celing more fights. A weight gain of 15
percent or more? Fight is off. He said the
California commission had asked him to
draft language to that effect so that the
members could bring it to a vote in Octo-
ber. Foster acknowledged that calling
off a fight would be extremely difficult.
“You’re pushed against the wall by
the promoter, and you’ve got 18,000 peo-
ple sitting around looking at you,” he
said. “But I don’t just think this stuff is
dangerous — I know it.”
Schwartz emphasized the severity of
the problem in boxing. Generally, he
said, rapid weight loss below even 10
percent could be fatal.
“In the real world, we’re talking about
potential death at 5 to 7 percent” be-
cause of dehydration, Schwartz said,
contrasting that with fighters’ cutting 15
percent or more of their body weight.
Schwartz recalled reviewing some pa-
perwork before a recent bout in Con-
necticut. A boxer who was scheduled to
fight in a month had undergone a physi-
cal examination that listed his weight at
212 pounds. He was supposed to fight at
185 pounds.
“If we know that ahead of time, why
are we even allowing them to get into
that weight class?” he asked.
One of the major criticisms from fans
after Santillán’s fight was that it took a
long time for him to get medical atten-
tion; he collapsed in the ring after need-
ing help to stand for several minutes
while the decision was read.
Boxing has long struggled with the
fact that many of its events are managed
locally, leading to lapses in communica-
tion and differences in rules. The A.B.C.
has tried to curb some of those issues, in
part by teaming up with BoxRec, a sta-
tistical database. Mazzulli said the num-
ber of boxers fighting while on suspen-
sion, as Johnson did in 1999, had de-
clined drastically in recent years, to be-
low 1 percent.
Near the end of the convention, Maz-
zulli wanted to revisit the death of Da-
dashev in Maryland. From his point of
view, he said, it was hard to see what
anyone had done wrong during the bout
itself. Dadashev’s cornerman, Buddy
McGirt, had gone so far as stepping in to
stop the fight when it was clear to him
that his fighter was taking too much
punishment.
Mazzulli asked: So what can the sport
learn from these twin tragedies? Where
would it go from here?
Schwartz said being able to gather
more information ahead of fights would
be helpful.
“We don’t know what happened in the
gym,” Schwartz said, speaking of boxers
in general. “We don’t know how much
weight he cut. We don’t know if he was
concussed during training. This is prob-
ably the most difficult part of your job:
How do we get that information? How
do we get the fighters and corners and
managers to be truthful?”
It’s not a fight to the death
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.
After two fatalities
in one week, boxing
is looking for answers
BY SCOTT CACCIOLA
Maxim Dadashev in his corner just before officials halted the July 19 fight because of his injuries. Dadashev died four days later.
SCOTT TAETSCH/GETTY IMAGES
“If you ask him to fight 20 rounds,
he will do whatever it takes.
They’re warriors. It’s our duty to
protect them from themselves.”
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