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10 Basketball Jobs That Are a Slam Dunk

Maybe you never made the team. Maybe you’re the biggest fan alive. Or maybe you played with the best of them in college—but a pro career just wasn’t in the cards. Just because you’re not on the court doesn’t mean you can’t work in the field—the field of basketball jobs, that is. The global sports industry is expected to reach $599.9 billion by 2...

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8 Sports Management Careers for Players and Fans

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

Sports management is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of different jobs. People who work in sports management careers can be found on the field alongside professional or college teams or on the “sales pitch,” planning marketing strategies, creating public relations campaigns, or managing events. According to the Bureau of Labor Statisti...

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How to Become an Athletic Trainer

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

From golf players to football players, every athlete risks sustaining an injury. A small ankle twist can result in excruciating pain and weeks of immobilization that are devastating to a professional athlete’s career. Fortunately, there are licensed professionals who know how to prevent and treat these injuries. If you want to help people get back ...

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12 awesome careers for football lovers--no helmets required

By Robert Fucci, Monster contributor

Are you ready for some football? Whether you're all about the NFL, only do NCAA, or are rooting for the local high school, this is your time of year. But if the pigskin is your passion, maybe it should be more than just your pastime. Monster's jobs database is full of football-related jobs that need to be filled today (there are even some o...

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10 ace jobs for golf lovers

By Jon Simmons, Monster contributor

For many people, golf is a hobby—a fun (and sometimes frustrating) pastime enjoyed while on vacation or while partaking in a “sick” day. But for others, golf is a way of life. Good news if you’re one of them: The golf industry in the U.S. is in the green. “A total of 2.2 million people took up the game last year, approaching the record of 2.4 mi...

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How I became a professional mountain biker

By Duval Culpepper

Becky Gardner's last outing to a BMX bike park ended with disaster. “I broke my back trying backflips,” the 24-year-old casually explains. For most people, this would be a life altering injury that’d make them reconsider doing anything remotely physical again. For Gardner, it goes with the territory of being a professional mountain biker. Tho...

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The Jobs Behind the Big (Football) Game

By Monster Contributor

OK, so you're never going to make the cut as a professional football player. But how are your sales, facilities management, administrative, finance or technology skills? Without people filling these kinds of jobs, there wouldn't be a football game. We’ve put together a list of the jobs that make each and every game happen, from back-end technology ...

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Manage a Sports Facility

By Matt Krumrie, Monster Contributing Writer

The number of sports facilities in the US is rising rapidly, and demand for qualified managers to oversee them is at an all-time high, says Rick Nelson, program coordinator for the Sports Facility Management program at Century College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Nelson says that when most people think of sports facilities, what automatically com...

Sports Careers

10 Basketball Jobs That Are a Slam Dunk

8 Sports Management Careers for Players and Fans

How to Become an Athletic Trainer

12 awesome careers for football lovers--no helmets required

10 ace jobs for golf lovers

How I became a professional mountain biker

The Jobs Behind the Big (Football) Game

Manage a Sports Facility

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