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By Austin L. Burton on May 12, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Yaya Toure, Edin Dzeko lead Man City to Premier League title

Manchester City clinched its second Premier League championship in three years on Sunday, overcoming a late-season deficit in the standings by winning its last five matches to clear runner-up Liverpool […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 12, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Demba Ba pays to build a mosque in Senegal

There’s a reason so many people hold negative stereotypes that the NFL is full of criminals and the NBA is full of stupidly-spending rich guys on the verge of going […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 11, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Teletovic helps Nets hand Heat first playoff loss

After Mirza Teletovic scored a team-high 20 points in Brooklyn’s 94-82 loss to Miami in Game 2 of their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series, I wrote that the Bosnian Muslim […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 11, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Catching up with Eddie Mustafa Muhammad

During an era that some boxing fans consider the most competitive in the history of the light-heavyweight division, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad racked up a professional record of 50-8-1 (39 KOs) […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 10, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Undrafted NFL hopeful Adham Talaat lands a tryout with Seattle

The third and final day of the 2014 NFL Draft was dominated by two storylines: Accomplished quarterbacks Aaron Murray (Georgia) and A.J. McCarron (Alabama) getting picked back-to-back in the fifth […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 9, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Teletovic gives Brooklyn its best chance to beat the Heat

The Miami Heat are running through the NBA playoffs like the Kool-Aid Man running through a brick wall, sweeping Charlotte in the first round and taking the first two games […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 9, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Khan’s Jaguars take QB Bortles in NFL draft

What was shaping up as a difficult month for international sports magnate Shahid Khan took a turn for the good on Thursday, when his Jacksonville Jaguars landed the (potential) franchise […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 8, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Sagna lets the world know he’s thankful to be Muslim

Bacary Sagna is young, talented, rich and famous. The 31-year-old defender for Arsenal of the English Premier League is married to a model and owns a $500,000 Lamborghini that he […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 8, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

How Tariq Abdul-Wahad changed Doc Rivers as a coach

In an article for USA TODAY titled “For NBA teams, religion can be unifying or divisive,” author Sam Amick explores the dynamics of faith in pro basketball, primarily through the […]

By Austin L. Burton on May 7, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Talaat is ready for anything in the NFL draft

In the grand scheme of the NFL draft, the first round isn’t really worth sweating. The players you’ve read so much about leading up to Thursday’s extravaganza — Jadeveon Clowney, […]

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