The 2025-26 NBA Season Through One Man’s Fandom
The worst-case scenario after the worst-case scenario became a real-life nightmare for myself and a lot of castaway Seattle-based NBA fans in 2025. Our team, my hometown team, the Seattle […]
NBA Preview: 15 Players Who Will Define the 2024-25 Season
Opening Night of the 2024-25 NBA season will be one for the history books. That’s when the league’s career scoring leader, 22-year veteran LeBron James, is expected to share the […]
Team USA May Define (and Dominate) the Paris Olympics
The biggest and possibly baddest national team at this year’s Paris Olympics will, not surprisingly, represent the United States of America. Historically, it checks out: in the Summer Olympics, the […]
10 NBA teams to watch in 2023-24
There’s a chicken-vs.-egg argument to be had regarding why people who follow the NBA — from the fans to the media to the ex-players in the media who act like […]
The Reset, Part 3: Does Anyone Need a Favorite NBA Team?
Throughout this process of shopping for new sports teams like I’m on an episode of Love It or List It, I haven’t been particularly dead-set on finding a forever home. […]
The realities of retirement for pro athletes
There are two types of sports fans: Those who have no problem comparing professional athletes to people with “normal” or “regular” jobs; and those who insist that pro athletes cannot […]
Is Muhammad Ali The G.O.A.T. For All Sports?
When Tom Brady led the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Feb. 7, he collected the seventh Super Bowl championship of […]
NBA 2016-17 Preview: Muslim Players to Watch
If you threw up your hands in frustration, swore off the NBA this past summer and haven’t paid attention since then, you may be surprised to learn that the league […]
LeBron Says Eliminating Pork Helps Performance
LeBron James may be one of the most polarizing sports personalities in the world, but one thing James’ biggest critics and biggest fans can agree on is that the four-time […]
Athletes and activism: When does ignorance become intolerable?
At the masjid on a recent Friday, they talked about priorities. The context of this khutba was that while plenty of Muslims manage to make time for leisure, not enough […]
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