As general counsel for The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Ike Lawrence Epstein isn’t worried about his safety, but his work as counsel to the UFC deals with fighter safety, as well as contracts, intellectual property, regulatory and political issues.
Kevin McGuire leverages his law degree and personal experience to help his clients, which include nearly all of the U.S. professional sports teams, make their venues accessible to people with disabilities. Read more about his work here.
High tech helmets no better than leather?
A recent study suggests that for the everyday hits football players absorb hundreds or thousands of times, new helmets are not any better than what players wore decades ago.
Looking for an IT job? How about designing intelligent cleats like this at Adidas? Have a pro athlete give you a tour of the jobs, or browse on your own.
“Using statistical physics theory, [Boston U. graduate student Alexander Petersen has] found a way to compare baseball players over the generations, whether they played in the dead-ball era in the early 1900s or the steroids era beginning in the 1990s.”
An Athademic gets more academic
Elsa Cole, served as general counsel to the NCAA for more than a dozen years. While there, she talked about her career path and work combining the law through education and sports in this interview as part of Athademic. This year, she began working for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, which focuses on urban education, childhood health and family economic stability.
If you want a career in sports, do some research.
You won’t have to look far.
My neighbor is finishing a fellowship in sports medicine at Vanderbilt. He spends most of his time helping out at Vanderbilt, Belmont, Lipscomb and other university sporting events—home and not too far away.
Someone must have designed ESPN’s Big Blue mobile broadcast station for the Women’s World Cup. Someone else must have built it, someone else must be driving it.
And there must be dozens of people making the Women’s World Cup happen.
The Tour? Every rider must have at least two support people behind him.
Find the jobs and leave a comment with the results of your research. What did people study to get those jobs? What was their prior experience? Were they all competitors in those sports?
