Muhammad Ali was both superhuman and super human
I wasn’t going to write this. When three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali passed away on June 3 at the age of 74, surrounded by his family in Scottsdale, […]
Justice or Else: What role do athletes play in the movement?
My father and I were two of the hundreds of thousands of people — two of perhaps one million, according to some estimates — who gathered in front of the […]
Abdul-Jabbar Has Mixed Feelings About MLK Day
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 […]
Kamaal Ahmad Chose the Quran Over College Football
One way or another, Kamaal Ahmad was going to make his mark in this world through sports. Just like a Kennedy getting into a politics, or a Kardashian gravitating toward […]
Boston Marathon bombings: One year after
I don’t remember exactly where I was or what I was doing on April 15, 2013, when I learned two bombs had exploded near the finish line of the Boston […]
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