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 […]
Modesty and the Muslim athlete
First, we must acknowledge the hypocrisy: That is, how college and pro football players can make a play that sends thousands of fans in the stadium — along with millions […]
NBA journey ending for Turkoglu, Mohammed
Two of the longest-tenured players in the NBA, a pair who played for a total of 13 teams over a combined 32 seasons, have both reached the end of the […]
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. […]
Rugby star, boxer owes transformation to Islam
For as long as humans have been interested in recognizing athletic excellence, versatility has been a highly valued trait. Amidst our canonization of Michael Jordan the basketball player and Babe […]
Prayer on the field should not be a problem
Somehow, some way, a scene that has played out over a thousand Friday nights in thousands of cities and towns across the United States recently became a source of national […]
Benzema: Best in the world?
The college football season is going strong and the NBA season is just starting, which means a lot of today and tomorrow’s sports debates are going to be variations of […]
Muslim players to watch this NBA season
When Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors clinched the 2015 NBA championship in a six-game series victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, it was the perfect way […]
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 […]
Justice or Else: What role do athletes play in the movement?
My father and I were two of the hundreds of thousands of people — two of perhaps one million, according to some estimates — who gathered in front of the […]
