Is Muhammad Ali The G.O.A.T. For All Sports?
When Tom Brady led the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Feb. 7, he collected the seventh Super Bowl championship of […]
Julian Williams is one of boxing’s rising stars
Boxing is a sport constantly in search of its next big thing. Whereas the NBA’s top stars play multiple games per week during its season, and the NFL dominates every […]
Williams, Kaepernick and the audacity of peaceful protest
Consider the dilemma of the socially conscious, conscientious objector whose skin color and/or religion does not align with mainstream White Christian Western society. When a real, perceived or anticipated injustice […]
Former boxing champ Chris Eubank on his conversion to Islam
During a 13-year professional boxing career, Chris Eubank compiled a record of 45 wins (23 by knockout), 5 losses and 2 draws. He won two world championships: the WBO middleweight […]
Muhammad Ali was both superhuman and super human
I wasn’t going to write this. When three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali passed away on June 3 at the age of 74, surrounded by his family in Scottsdale, […]
Muhammad Ali, a.k.a. ‘The Greatest,’ dies at 74
Muhammad Ali was either the best athlete the world has ever seen, the most influential athlete the world has ever seen, or both. The former three-time world heavyweight boxing champion, […]
Is boxing really better without Mayweather?
They said that boxing would be better without the best. They said the sport would thrive in the absence of the man has been its face for most of the […]
Muslim female boxers featured in documentary
The narrative of the female who shows strength through fighting — be it at home, in school, at work, in sports or simply day to day in a society that […]
Pro, amateur athletes among 2015’s most generous British Muslims
This is the time on the calendar for media outlets to make lists. Lots of best-of, worst-of, who’s-hot, who’s-not lists to commemorate the end of 2015 and the beginning of […]
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 […]
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