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By Austin L. Burton on March 10, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Q&A with Heisman Trophy candidate Ameer Abdullah

Its location alone evokes images of gargantuan nose tackles and corn-fed linebackers, but the University of Nebraska football program has a rich heritage of electric playmakers on the offensive side […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 9, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

New Jersey’s Muslim Basketball league builds brotherhood

While certainly not the first or the last venture of its kind, the Muslim Basketball league in northern New Jersey (muslimbasketball.org) just might be the best in the U.S. at […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 9, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Introducing: South Florida SG Musa Abdul-Aleem

His father asked, “O Messenger of Allah, which people are tested most severely?” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “They are the prophets, then the […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 4, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

War Eagles: From fans to fanatics to terrorists

On Feb. 7, college football’s National Signing Day, Auburn (Ala.) High School linebacker Rashaan Evans held a press conference to announce where he would be taking his talents to next. […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 4, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Video: “My Story” by Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

NBA and overseas veteran Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf gave this talk at the Al Tawheed Center in May of 2013.

By Austin L. Burton on March 3, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Abdusalamov featured on “Outside the Lines”

ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” ran a 30-minute special on Magomed Abdusalamov on Feb. 23, telling the story of the heavyweight boxer’s last match — a brutal unanimous-decision loss to Mike […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 2, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Video: Lady Caliphs HS basketball team

This is an ESPN feature from 2006 about the W.D. Mohammed High School (since renamed Mohammed Schools of Atlanta) girls’ basketball team. The clip includes Aamira Terry, who would go […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 2, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

Abdur-Rahim helps build Sacramento mosque

Saturday, Feb. 22 marked the grand opening of Masjid As-Sabur in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood, the first mosque in Northern California built primarily by African-Americans, according to the Sacramento Bee. […]

By Austin L. Burton on March 1, 2014 • ( 4 Comments )

My path to Islam

AUSTIN BURTON, Ummah Sports editor Although I was raised in a traditionally Christian family, it took me a quarter-century on this earth to become certain of God’s existence, let alone […]

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