When 17-year-old Malik Abdul-Haqq starts telling a story about ditching school early on a Friday afternoon, it sounds like the beginning of a tale we’ve all heard before. Teenagers skipping […]
For Musa Abdul-Aleem, his basketball future is right now. Mathematically speaking, getting into the NBA is a long shot for any of the 4,000-plus NCAA Division-1 college basketball players in […]
Deah Shaddy Barakat was a man of varied interests and talents: The second-year graduate student at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry started a successful fundraiser aimed at […]
Former college basketball star Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir was among the 14 Muslim-American community leaders who met with President Barack Obama and senior officials on Feb. 4 at the White House in […]
Basketball’s international governing body met on Wednesday in Spain prior to the start of the 2014 FIBA World Cup, a scheduled session that had received worldwide attention because of one […]
From the playgrounds of California to the pro game in Europe, Indira Kaljo made it to the highest level of basketball without truly standing out from the crowd. As a […]
Athletes are rarely afforded the opportunity to write their own ending. For every one who makes it all the way to the professional level and gets to retire from their […]
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir‘s basketball future is hanging by the threads of a headscarf. The 5-4 guard averaged a team-high 14.2 points as a senior at Indiana State University this past season […]
A lot of people would call Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir an overachiever. But then, who are any of us to put a limit on what a 5-foot-4 Muslim girl from Springfield, Mass., […]
Jamie Foxx wants to play Mike Tyson in a movie http://www.boxingscene.com/jamie-foxx-still-very-eager-play-mike-tyson-movie–77401 Looking to follow in the footsteps of Will Smith, who played Muhammad Ali in the acclaimed movie based on […]
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