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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cavaliers trade Dion 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
VIDEO: Muslim women talk about participation in sport
In this clip from 2012, a diverse handful of Muslim women in London talk about their participation in sport, from the barriers standing in their way to how they overcome […]
Amla, Oshoala, Toure among most influential African athletes
It is that time of year for end-of-the-year lists, where those of us trained to use the Gregorian calendar cordon off everything that happened from January 1 to December 31 […]
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