The Decision: Considering Islam in free agency
If you think Dwyane Wade, LaMarcus Aldridge and the rest of the big names in the NBA’s free-agency class of 2015 will be the subjects of too many rumors and […]
If you think Dwyane Wade, LaMarcus Aldridge and the rest of the big names in the NBA’s free-agency class of 2015 will be the subjects of too many rumors and […]
Contrary to what some people believe, Muslim is not a racial group, and Islam is not wholly represented by one organization — be it honorable, deplorable, or otherwise. Therefore, it’s […]
When the gavel came down last week on Aaron Hernandez — the former New England Patriots and University of Florida football star convicted of first-degree murder in the 2013 shooting […]
As the global sports industry continues to grow — from a million-dollar business to a billion-dollar business to a trillion-dollar business and beyond — not every element of its progress […]
Originally published at MuslimMatters.org on March 14, 2015 What is excellence without exposure? While the devout Muslim wakes up and goes to bed striving for rewards bestowed by none other […]
As the Open Sud de France rolls on this week, Tunisian tennis star Malek Jaziri is at the center of an investigation by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for […]
Originally published at MuslimMatters.org on Jan. 31, 2015 In the fortnight of wall-to-wall media hype dedicated to Super Bowl XLIX, no storyline has gone unturned. From Bill Belichick‘s deflated footballs […]
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 […]
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 […]
With the birth of every NBA “super team” comes the premature casualty of at least one promising pro career. When the Boston Celtics brought in Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen […]