The biggest boxing event of the 21st century will draw the world’s attention to Las Vegas on May 2, when welterweight superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will step […]
In a past era of pro football, Ameer Abdullah would have been traveling to Chicago this week to attend the NFL Draft in person, taking his place in the invitation-only […]
Speed, precision and effective strategy with a fencing saber has taken Ibtihaj Muhammad on business trips to bucket-list destinations like London, Paris, Italy and Morocco — and next summer, if […]
When the gavel came down last week on Aaron Hernandez — the former New England Patriots and University of Florida football star convicted of first-degree murder in the 2013 shooting […]
The beginning of the NBA playoffs last weekend marked the end of a regular season that was both fruitful and frustrating for Denver Nuggets power forward Kenneth Faried. Last summer, […]
The globalization of the National Basketball Association has been a multi-layered process: part geographic, part linguistic, part stylistic and part philosophical. Not only has the league that was born in […]
Sports fans are fickle. So is the sports media. And while that’s certainly no industry secret or recent development, it does seem like that fickle behavior has worsened in the […]
Originally published at MuslimMatters.org on April 11, 2015 If all goes well, Haroon Mota will cross the finish line at the 2015 London Marathon about two hours after the winner […]
Miralem Pjanic‘s skills on the soccer pitch are so smooth, he’s earned the nickname “il Pianista,” or “The Pianist.” The 25-year-old Bosnian Muslim midfielder plies his trade for Roma in […]
For reasons complicated enough to deserve their own column — or more like a graduate-level dissertation — an athlete behaving badly on his personal time is 100 times more likely […]
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