Video: Islam Slimani highlights
While we’re on the topic of modesty and celebrations, here are some highlights of Islam Slimani, the 27-year-old Muslim striker from Algeria whose loud and intense goal celebrations are almost […]
Video: Brimah Razak’s goalkeeper training
ESPN could have made one of its “30 for 30” documentaries about what happened to Ghana’s national soccer team and goalkeeper Brimah Razak during the first week of February 2015. […]
NBA commercial features Muslim wheelchair basketball players
For the upcoming 2015-16 NBA regular season, the league has a new ad campaign titled “This Is Why We Play.” The first in the series of television commercials features a […]
Video: Abdul-Jabbar’s 1979 season-opening buzzer-beater
As the start of the 2015-16 NBA season approaches, it will be tough for any of the league’s opening-night games on Oct. 27 to beat the drama and historical significance […]
Video: Lassana Diarra highlights
Some of the skills required to be a good defensive midfielder in soccer are the same skills required to be a good rebounder in basketball. On his way to carving […]
Olajuwon makes surprise return in South Africa
The NBA first game on African soil produced a couple of surprises. First was the brief un-retirement of the two best basketball players from Africa to play in the NBA: […]
Video: Chagaev defends WBA title with 1st-round KO
Ruslan Chagaev, the WBA heavyweight boxing champion of the world and practicing Muslim from Russia, faced Italy’s Francesco Pianeta in his first defense of the title he won almost exactly […]
