Steinberg were the inspiration behind the Jerry Maguire character played by Tom Cruise. Moorad was the baseball technical consultant for the Universal picture For Love of the Game and had a cameo appearance in the movie. Community work Moorad encouraged his clients to donate millions of dollars to charities and their communities, including their own non-profit foundations and alma maters. Moorad himself endowed a $100,000 baseball scholarship to his alma mater UCLA, where he has taught a 'Business of Sports' class at UCLA's Anderson School of Management since 2013. In February 2012, Moorad committed $5 million to his alma mater Villanova University School of Law for the creation of The Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law. After Moorad's good friend Augie Nieto (founder, Chairman, and CEO of Life Fitness) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2005, Moorad has been active in helping to raise funds to find a cure for ALS. Moorad serves as a Vice President of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and is on the board of the Translational Genomics Research Institute, both of which he has helped partner with Augie's Quest. Moorad has also served as a chairperson of Childhelp's Drive the Dream Gala. Education A native of Modesto, California, Moorad served as student body president of Modesto Junior College, where he graduated with an Associate of Arts degree. He then went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UCLA in 1978, and a Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 1981. Moorad lives in Newport Beach, California, and has three sons. See also List of San Diego Padres owners and executives References American people of Iranian-Assyrian descent American sports agents Arizona Diamondbacks executives Arizona Diamondbacks owners Living people NASCAR team owners San Diego Padres executives San Diego Padres owners Year of birth missing (living people) American corporate directors Villanova University School of Law alumni American chief executives of professional sports organizations