VIDEO: Demba Ba is a goal-scoring machine
The professional soccer landscape is full of Muslim players, and many of them have been known to occasionally celebrate a goal by performing the sajdah prostration before Allah. But Senegalese-French […]
VIDEO: Mohamed Salah has skills
Mohamed Salah hasn’t had a lot of success since his landmark move from Basel of the Swiss Super League to Chelsea of the English Premier League in January 2014. It’s […]
VIDEO: NFL Films features Husain Abdullah
It took “Monday Night Football,” a touchdown scored at the expense of a living legend, and a brief yet heated controversy for Husain Abdullah to become a household name among […]
VIDEO: Khabib Nurmagomedov’s greatest hits
If the old saying is true that we learn more about ourselves in defeat than we do in victory, then it’s possible Khabib Nurmagomedov does not yet know himself very […]
Yaya Sanogo scores a hat trick, plus one
American football fans, as eager as they may be for NFL action come early-August, know well enough that what happens in the preseason isn’t a promise of what’s to come […]
Video: Suz Member talks about training during Ramadan
Firefighter by day, professional boxer by night, British welterweight Suz Member did a radio interview toward the end of Ramadan in which, among other things, he talked about how he […]
Barshim vs. Bondarenko: Historic high jump showdown
At the adidas Grand Prix on June 14 in New York, Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko and Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim engaged in what has been called the greatest 1-on-1 high jump […]
World Cup Dawah: Soccer fan takes shahada in Brazil
The Islamic Education and Research Academy, along with Mission Dawah, are in Brazil during the World Cup spreading the world of Islam ahead of Global Dawah Day on July 5. […]
‘Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant would love Islam’
In a recent episode of “The Deen Show,” a conversation with Imam Abu Taubah about polygyny in Islam evoked references to Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant, two megastar athletes whose […]
High school soccer team wears hijab to support Muslim teammate
Soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, lifted a longtime ban on headscarves on March 1 of this year, opening the door for Muslim women to wear hijab on the pitch. Apparently […]
