What may seem like a long overdue and well-deserved victory for those urging basketball’s international governing body (FIBA) to eliminate a discriminatory headgear rule is but a small, slow step […]
In the course of one week, the deaths of two Muslim athletes — one a legend in his sport, the other just starting to build a legacy in his — […]
One way or another, Kamaal Ahmad was going to make his mark in this world through sports. Just like a Kennedy getting into a politics, or a Kardashian gravitating toward […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, has stepped to the forefront of the growing movement to pressure the […]
University of South Florida shooting guard Musa Abdul-Aleem (featured on Ummah Sports in March) will finish his college basketball career at another school as the Bulls transition from one coaching […]
It has been said that sports is the only true meritocracy left in this world. Athletes like Jackie Robinson, Billie Jean King and Oscar Pistorius are held up as examples […]
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 […]
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 […]
