The dunk that made Hafid Yassin famous
Before Jan. 6, there hadn’t been anything remarkable about Chief Sealth High School (Seattle, Wash.) basketball player Hafid Yassin‘s senior season. The lanky 6-foot-5 guard was a good athlete on […]
Before Jan. 6, there hadn’t been anything remarkable about Chief Sealth High School (Seattle, Wash.) basketball player Hafid Yassin‘s senior season. The lanky 6-foot-5 guard was a good athlete on […]
Franck Ribery, a.k.a. Bilal Yusuf Mohammed, is one of the best and most successful soccer players in the world. The 5-foot-7 winger has won four championships in Germany’s top pro […]
Just when it looked like Dion Waiters was finding his niche and settling into an important role with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the 23-year-old shooting guard was traded on Monday to […]
Nothing can move you quite like seeing it in person. Almost immediately after the Dec. 16 massacre of a reported 150 people at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan by gunmen […]
In the sports world, “hustle” means more than diving to recover a fumble or booking it from first base to third with a headfirst slide. And the word “hustler” doesn’t […]
In this clip from 2012, a diverse handful of Muslim women in London talk about their participation in sport, from the barriers standing in their way to how they overcome […]
It is that time of year for end-of-the-year lists, where those of us trained to use the Gregorian calendar cordon off everything that happened from January 1 to December 31 […]
With the birth of every NBA “super team” comes the premature casualty of at least one promising pro career. When the Boston Celtics brought in Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen […]
Earlier this year, I was offered an opportunity to join the talented team of writers at MuslimMatters.org, where I’ll be posting a column or feature about once a month, Insha’Allah. […]
Early into his fourth season with the Utah Jazz, 22-year-old center Enes Kanter is still something of a project. But NBA teams are almost always willing to take their time […]