Naazim Richardson to enter Pa. Boxing Hall of Fame
Boxing trainer Naazim Richardson, who has guided future Hall of Fame fighters Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley to world championship victories, will earn a well-deserved honor of his own when […]
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Is pro basketball ready for Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir?
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., […]
VIDEO: Muslim martial arts
At the Islamic Boarding School of Barid Al Munawwarah in Indonesia, when students are not memorizing the Quran, studying the religion and performing dawah to the public, they are training […]
UAE weightlifter Amna Al Haddad eyes the 2016 Olympics
During an early-May training session in Dubai, 24-year-old weightlifter Amna Al Haddad was attempting to hoist more than two-thirds of her body weight above her head when one of her […]
Yaya Toure, Edin Dzeko lead Man City to Premier League title
Manchester City clinched its second Premier League championship in three years on Sunday, overcoming a late-season deficit in the standings by winning its last five matches to clear runner-up Liverpool […]
Demba Ba pays to build a mosque in Senegal
There’s a reason so many people hold negative stereotypes that the NFL is full of criminals and the NBA is full of stupidly-spending rich guys on the verge of going […]
Teletovic helps Nets hand Heat first playoff loss
After Mirza Teletovic scored a team-high 20 points in Brooklyn’s 94-82 loss to Miami in Game 2 of their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series, I wrote that the Bosnian Muslim […]
Catching up with Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
During an era that some boxing fans consider the most competitive in the history of the light-heavyweight division, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad racked up a professional record of 50-8-1 (39 KOs) […]
Undrafted NFL hopeful Adham Talaat lands a tryout with Seattle
The third and final day of the 2014 NFL Draft was dominated by two storylines: Accomplished quarterbacks Aaron Murray (Georgia) and A.J. McCarron (Alabama) getting picked back-to-back in the fifth […]
Teletovic gives Brooklyn its best chance to beat the Heat
The Miami Heat are running through the NBA playoffs like the Kool-Aid Man running through a brick wall, sweeping Charlotte in the first round and taking the first two games […]
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