Beasley Professor Ken Jacobsen, who teaches sports law, proved to be an invaluable mentor, allowing Sam to create his own coursework crafting mathematical algorithms to determine an athlete’s fair compensation. Sam also started a Sports Law Negotiation Team at Temple that still competes across the country and leveraged a Temple connection to secure a key internship with the Philadelphia Eagles news website Inside the Birds, where he still writes and co-hosts his own podcast segment Inside the Data with Geoff Mosher.

Sam went pro as an attorney for Fox Rothschild immediately after graduation at the firm’s Center City office, building on a summer associate role that he obtained a year earlier. In his first two years, Sam helped international athletes obtain green cards, successfully represented a prominent sports agent in a contract dispute, and secured and negotiated NIL (name, image, likeness) deals for clients in both sports and music. He’s next eyeing a certification that would allow him to directly represent athletes in contract negotiations with professional teams.