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By Austin L. Burton on April 4, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Januzaj Named Best Teen Soccer Player in Europe

Manchester United wing Adnan Januzaj was recently ranked No. 1 by Italy’s Gazzetta Dello Sport on its list of teenage soccer players in Europe. The 19-year-old Kosovar-Albanian prodigy was raised […]

By Austin L. Burton on April 3, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Former NBA star Zaid Abdul-Aziz found sunlight after darkness

There is no gaudy gold watch. No loud tailored suit or shiny Italian shoes. Nothing immediately giving away that the quiet man sitting at the simple plastic table in the […]

By Austin L. Burton on April 1, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Video: Hakeem Olajuwon – It Changed Everything

Hakeem Olajuwon’s name has been making its way around basketball circles a lot as of late. With the NCAA tournament underway, the man who stood tall in the middle of […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 31, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Vieira says Yaya Toure is the Player of the Year

Here’s the thing with pretty much every Most Valuable, Most Outstanding, Most Whatever-You-Want-To-Call-It Player award: Winning it doesn’t necessarily mean you were the best player, or that you definitely had […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 31, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Cabrera cashes in: How much money is too much?

The most valuable player in sports last week wasn’t Scottie Wilbekin, the NCAA Tournament’s breakout star who led Florida to another Final Four while likely cementing his spot as a […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 28, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Video: Mike Tyson meets Street Fighter II

Even before he converted to Islam, Mike Tyson was indisputably my favorite athlete growing up. And Street Fighter II was definitely one of my favorite video games. Oddly enough, however, […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 27, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Video: The Muslim Premier League

This documentary special produced by BBC originally aired in 2013, focusing on the fairly recent influx of Muslim players in the English Premier League. If you want to learn more […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 27, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Amir Khan says Mayweather needs to fight him to be a global star

Although Amir Khan’s public campaign to be Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s next opponent didn’t quite work out the way he wanted — Khan and Mayweather are scheduled to fight on May […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 27, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Jags owner Khan has learned his lesson going into 2014 NFL draft

In the two full seasons in which Shahid Khan has owned the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, his team has been the worst in the league — winning just six games and […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 25, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was the Stephen Curry of the 1990s

As part of its retrospective series on the NBA golden era of the 1990s, SB Nation ran a feature today on the short, complicated and otherwise brilliant career of Mahmoud […]

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