Amir Khan to open halal steak house chain
While he waits his turn for a career-defining fight — and major payday — against Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao, two-time world champion boxer Amir Khan is making business […]
What would a Muslim do as NFL commissioner?
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 […]
Video: Ameer Abdullah Senior Bowl highlights
Ameer Abdullah passed on a chance to enter the 2014 NFL Draft to return to the University of Nebraska for his senior year. The 5-foot-9 running back’s primary motivation was […]
Bernard Hopkins ranked second-best over 40
A new list of old boxers ranks Muslim American multi-division champion Bernard Hopkins the second-best fighter over 40 years old in the sport’s long history. Jarrett Zook of Boxing.com put […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on ‘Meet the Press’
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, arguably the greatest basketball player in history and one of the world’s most prominent Muslim athletes, talked about extremist Islamic violence, Islamophobia, and how it all impacts true […]
Blood clots put Teletovic’s NBA career in jeopardy
In the past six months or so, I’ve become closely acquainted with the dangers of blood clots in the lungs. Over the summer, a close family member wound up in […]
VIDEO: Marouane Fellaini highlights
Two things seem to overshadow everything Marouane Fellaini has accomplished on the soccer pitch lately: Hair and money. Fellaini, the 27-year-old Moroccan-Belgian Muslim midfielder for Manchester United in England’s Premier […]
Dion Waiters is thriving with the Thunder
Since being traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Jan. 5, Muslim American basketball pro Dion Waiters has been showing more frequent flashes of the star […]
Demba Ba’s prostration debated among Muslim scholars
Demba Ba is, in at least one way, the Tim Tebow of Muslim athletes. Tebow is the Heisman Trophy-winning college quarterback who played a few way-too-scrutinized years in the NFL. […]
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 […]
