Q&A with NFL Draft prospect Ameer Abdullah
In a past era of pro football, Ameer Abdullah would have been traveling to Chicago this week to attend the NFL Draft in person, taking his place in the invitation-only […]
Olympic hopeful Ibtihaj Muhammad balances fencing and fashion
Speed, precision and effective strategy with a fencing saber has taken Ibtihaj Muhammad on business trips to bucket-list destinations like London, Paris, Italy and Morocco — and next summer, if […]
Life in prison: How Islam can save Aaron Hernandez
When the gavel came down last week on Aaron Hernandez — the former New England Patriots and University of Florida football star convicted of first-degree murder in the 2013 shooting […]
Kenneth Faried and the breakout season that wasn’t
The beginning of the NBA playoffs last weekend marked the end of a regular season that was both fruitful and frustrating for Denver Nuggets power forward Kenneth Faried. Last summer, […]
2015 NBA Playoffs: 7 Muslims to Watch
The globalization of the National Basketball Association has been a multi-layered process: part geographic, part linguistic, part stylistic and part philosophical. Not only has the league that was born in […]
Marouane Fellaini has gone ‘from misfit to maestro’
Sports fans are fickle. So is the sports media. And while that’s certainly no industry secret or recent development, it does seem like that fickle behavior has worsened in the […]
Haroon’s Marathon Mission: Racing to Fight Cancer
Originally published at MuslimMatters.org on April 11, 2015 If all goes well, Haroon Mota will cross the finish line at the 2015 London Marathon about two hours after the winner […]
Video: Miralem Pjanic highlights
Miralem Pjanic‘s skills on the soccer pitch are so smooth, he’s earned the nickname “il Pianista,” or “The Pianist.” The 25-year-old Bosnian Muslim midfielder plies his trade for Roma in […]
NHL player Yakupov’s generosity makes headlines
For reasons complicated enough to deserve their own column — or more like a graduate-level dissertation — an athlete behaving badly on his personal time is 100 times more likely […]
Anelka speaks on his conversion to Islam
Nicolas Anelka‘s career has covered enough peaks and valleys across the international soccer landscape to warrant at least a couple of ESPN 30 for 30 documentary pitches. The 36-year-old striker […]
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