Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jamaal Wilkes stand up for Jerry West
Forget the NBA playoffs, the NHL postseason stretch run, or the early part of the MLB schedule. The most intriguing drama in sports television right now is the new HBO […]
Kaepernick’s anthem protest is absolutely the American way
The Muslim American community has become inextricably linked to the most controversial sports story of 2016. Before an NFL preseason game in Santa Clara, Calif., on August 26, San Francisco […]
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, […]
How Stephen Curry could change the game
An entire industry exists under the basketball umbrella for athletes known as “professional dunkers.” Tracing its roots in above-the-rim showmanship back to NBA superstars like Julius “Doctor J” Erving, Michael […]
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 […]
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 […]
Video: Abdul-Jabbar’s 1979 season-opening buzzer-beater
As the start of the 2015-16 NBA season approaches, it will be tough for any of the league’s opening-night games on Oct. 27 to beat the drama and historical significance […]
Tyson, Shaq and Kareem: Taking Islam seriously
Contrary to what some people believe, Muslim is not a racial group, and Islam is not wholly represented by one organization — be it honorable, deplorable, or otherwise. Therefore, it’s […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on ‘Meet the Press’
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 […]
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