Sports world celebrates Eid al-Fitr to close Ramadan
This year’s Ramadan fell during a busy time on the sports calendar. The 30-day ninth month of the Islamic calendar began in late March and concluded this week — a […]
Muslim trio among highest-paid soccer players
Arguably the biggest and most important sporting event on planet Earth kicks off next month. With all due respect to the Olympics and the Super Bowl, the men’s FIFA World […]
Muslim medal winners at the year’s biggest track meet
Track and field’s most prominent stages have been on shaky ground for the last few years. And that’s not just because the sport lost its biggest superstar when Jamaican sprint […]
Abdelfattah joins NBA coaching staff after conquering G League
Mahmoud Abdelfattah is on the fast track to an NBA head coaching job. During a typically busy basketball offseason, the Chicago native and former St. Cloud State University player was […]
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 […]
Muslim players to watch in the NBA playoffs
The story of Kyrie Irving‘s 2021-22 NBA season has been one of the most unique in recent memory. The Brooklyn Nets’ star point guard played in just 29 of the […]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic targeted with anti-Muslim slurs
A fan of Serbian pro soccer team Red Star hurled anti-Muslim slurs at AC Milan (Italy) star Zlatan Ibrahimovic during a match on Feb. 19. The Red Star organization issued […]
Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad sets a new world record
Watch enough track and field meets, and you’ll eventually hear an athlete or an announcer reiterate the theory that the 400-meter hurdles race is perhaps the toughest single event in […]
Muslim soccer referee Jawahir Roble is making history
From basketball and boxing, to tennis and truck racing, women’s sports are still by and large in a development phase in terms of maintaining a cultural footprint with the mainstream […]
Tacko Fall’s NBA journey begins with the Boston Celtics
The biggest name in the 2019 NBA Draft pool was Zion Williamson, the teenage phenom from Duke University who, as expected, went to the New Orleans Pelicans with the No. […]
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