Originally published at MuslimMatters.org on Jan. 31, 2015 In the fortnight of wall-to-wall media hype dedicated to Super Bowl XLIX, no storyline has gone unturned. From Bill Belichick‘s deflated footballs […]
Ameer Abdullah passed on a chance to enter the 2014 NFL Draft to return to the University of Nebraska for his senior year. The 5-foot-9 running back’s primary motivation was […]
A new list of old boxers ranks Muslim American multi-division champion Bernard Hopkins the second-best fighter over 40 years old in the sport’s long history. Jarrett Zook of Boxing.com put […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, arguably the greatest basketball player in history and one of the world’s most prominent Muslim athletes, talked about extremist Islamic violence, Islamophobia, and how it all impacts true […]
In the past six months or so, I’ve become closely acquainted with the dangers of blood clots in the lungs. Over the summer, a close family member wound up in […]
Two things seem to overshadow everything Marouane Fellaini has accomplished on the soccer pitch lately: Hair and money. Fellaini, the 27-year-old Moroccan-Belgian Muslim midfielder for Manchester United in England’s Premier […]
Since being traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Jan. 5, Muslim American basketball pro Dion Waiters has been showing more frequent flashes of the star […]
Demba Ba is, in at least one way, the Tim Tebow of Muslim athletes. Tebow is the Heisman Trophy-winning college quarterback who played a few way-too-scrutinized years in the NFL. […]
Sometimes it’s hard to believe the “dumb jock” stereotype persists when you have counterexamples as big and as brainy as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The 67-year-old New Yorker is a giant in […]
Paul Pogba is 21 years old, stands 6-foot-2, has the stamina of a steeplechaser, the long and powerful legs of an NFL wide receiver, and the quick and nimble feet […]
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