Sports at Large
"Sports at Large" airs Mondays at 4:44 P.M.
Sports at Large is a weekly exploration of the issues and people who play and watch sports. SaL goes behind the headlines and stats to find the how and why, and the ways in which sports intersect with and influence our daily lives. SaL features interviews and commentaries from professionals and fans a like to tell a more complete story. One person described it as "a thinking fan’s guide to sports."
Milton Kent is a veteran of Baltimore sports media, having covered the World Series, the Final Four, NFL conference championship games and high schools over a career that spans over four decades. He currently teaches journalism at Morgan State University, where he is an advisor to the school newspaper, The MSU Spokesman. He and his wife live in Baltimore County.
Contact Milton at [email protected] and on Twitter: @SportsAtLarge
Latest Episodes
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Everything in life is a matter of perspective, and depending on how you view things, the University of Michigan’s win over Ohio State in Saturday’s football game is either the universe setting things right or a triumph of darkness over the light. -
Following Thursday’s 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, Ravens linebacker Odafe Oweh declared that the team wanted to make a statement. -
During the 8 p.m. Saturday window this week, there was a cavalcade of the usual college football suspects on television -
While the sports world has been fixated on the goings on with the University of Michigan football program and the potentially explosive cheating scandal we told you about last week, the really important action has been taking place 2,000 miles away. -
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: There’s cheating going on in college sports and no one knows what to do about it. -
The landscape is dotted with plenty of ways for people of a certain age to try to stay relevant, up to and including sports cars, hair plugs, Botox and tummy tucks, to name a few -
When Brandon Hyde sat at a microphone last week and declared that he was irritated at the abrupt end to the Orioles season, he spoke for a shockingly small number of Baltimoreans. -
No matter what this October portends for the Orioles, the immediate and perhaps extended future appears to hold considerable promise for the franchise. -
There’s been a collective feeling around Baltimore since the news broke that Brooks Robinson died that we now have this guardian angel above the clouds, doing what he can to make things better. -
We’re only a month and change into the 2023 college football season, but there’s already a dominant storyline and a central place where the story is being told, as well as a vehicle to tell the story through.
Sports at Large
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There’s a saying at the end of a relationship that goes, don’t be sad that it’s ending, be glad that it happened. If we are, in fact, watching the end of… -
Did you hear the one about the major sports franchise that refused to play the Star-Spangled Banner before games and the furor that ensued? Chances are,… -
For most of the 20th century, the Sporting News was the bible of baseball, the publication where fans went to get player and manager quotes, box scores… -
For the last few years now, the political right in this country has reveled in the slogans “shut up and dribble” or “stick to sports” with those terms… -
It seems incongruous, bordering on ridiculous now in the days just past his death last Friday to say that Henry Aaron was underrated.How could a man who… -
At the end of a relationship, it’s typical for one or both parties to take stock, to dust oneself off, as it were, and try to figure out what went wrong… -
The last nine months or so have been marked with upheaval and a search for what’s familiar and what’s continual. Well, in these troubling times, isn’t it… -
I want to start 2021 with a confession: I play the lottery.Now, this isn’t an everyday thing. I don’t jeopardize my retirement or anyone’s college fund… -
It’s customary, at the end of a year, for wags and pundits to sum up the previous 12 months in a crude context, by naming those whose reputations have… -
There’s very little that many of us will take from this dumpster fire of a year. Most people I know have already purchased a calendar for 2021 in joyous…
