Once the league realized chasing after every random Twitter egg that posted a LeBron James lay-up was a waste of time, it had the sense to let the issue go. He became the Premier League’s first head of sports science and then their head of elite performance last October. at was 5,000 more than turned up for Phillies-Mets baseball game the same afternoon). He did not always exude the physical power of the great Pittsburgh Steelers machine.