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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
Paul Pogba is 21 years old, stands 6-foot-2, has the stamina of a steeplechaser, the long and powerful legs of an NFL wide receiver, and the quick and nimble feet […]
All things considered, 2014 was a smashing success for Mesut Ozil. While the 26-year-old midfielder’s injury-plagued first full season with Arsenal of England’s Premier League was just mediocre by his […]
Contrary to what you may have been told, a condemnation of the self-proclaimed Muslims who killed 17 people during three days of gun violence in France last week is not […]
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 […]
