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By Amaar Burton on January 18, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Could this year be better for Ozil than last year?

All things considered, 2014 was a smashing success for Mesut Ozil. While the 26-year-old midfielder’s injury-plagued first full season with Arsenal of England’s Premier League was just mediocre by his […]

By Amaar Burton on January 16, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Muslim soccer players show united front with France

Contrary to what you may have been told, a condemnation of the self-proclaimed Muslims who killed 17 people during three days of gun violence in France last week is not […]

By Amaar Burton on January 14, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Amir Khan speaks out against radical Islam

Amir Khan, the reigning WBC Silver Welterweight champion and 2014’s British boxer of the year according to at least one columnist, has become the world’s most outspoken Muslim athlete on […]

By Amaar Burton on January 14, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Mohamed Sanu on his breakout NFL season

For fans of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, the 2014 season won’t go down in history as anything different from what they’ve become accustomed to in recent memory. For the fourth […]

By Amaar Burton on January 13, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Ali Al-Habsi patrols the posts for Oman

Oman is not a soccer powerhouse. But the Muslim-majority country on the Arabian Peninsula is trying to get there. Oman’s senior men’s national squad is currently tied for 93rd in […]

By Amaar Burton on January 11, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

The Dunk that Made Hafid Yassin Famous

Before Jan. 6, there hadn’t been anything remarkable about Chief Sealth High School (Seattle, Wash.) basketball player Hafid Yassin‘s senior season. The lanky 6-foot-5 guard was a good athlete on […]

By Amaar Burton on January 10, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

VIDEO: Franck Ribery highlights

Franck Ribery, a.k.a. Bilal Yusuf Mohammed, is one of the best and most successful soccer players in the world. The 5-foot-7 winger has won four championships in Germany’s top pro […]

By Amaar Burton on January 5, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Cavaliers Trade Waiters to Thunder

Just when it looked like Dion Waiters was finding his niche and settling into an important role with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the 23-year-old shooting guard was traded on Monday to […]

By Amaar Burton on January 5, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

Khan’s boxing academy will fight the good fight

Nothing can move you quite like seeing it in person. Almost immediately after the Dec. 16 massacre of a reported 150 people at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan by gunmen […]

By Amaar Burton on January 1, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Q&A with journalist Ismael AbduSalaam

In the sports world, “hustle” means more than diving to recover a fumble or booking it from first base to third with a headfirst slide. And the word “hustler” doesn’t […]

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