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
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The COVID vaccine has forced some in sports to put their beliefs where their money is -
The Orioles had another season for the ages. This one challenged the faith of 12-year-olds. -
Guess who's unbeaten? The Maryland football team through four games. Who'd have thunk it? -
There may be much more unreported sexual abuse in college sports than we've previously thought. -
The Ravens open the season with questions about their running backs and Lamar Jackson. -
It's only September, but there's already a scandal in high school football. -
What the story of the scorpion and the frog can teach us about college football. -
MLB ended 70 years of tradition by breaking off a deal with its trading card partner. -
Chris Davis' departure from the Orioles inspires cheers and regrets. -
Lamar Jackson and other NFL quarterbacks are sprinting away from COVID vaccines.
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The Orioles began the 2019 season winning two of three against the Toronto Blue Jays. They closed the season winning two of three against the defending… -
Amid all the gloom and cynicism attending sports these days come a couple of unrelated heart-warming stories, oddly enough emerging from the same place,…
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Collegiate athletes in California are one step closer to gaining a piece of financial freedom, now that a bill giving them the right to profit from their… -
There’s no truth to the rumor that school officials are thinking of changing the fight song at the University of Maryland to “Happy Days Are Here…
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The Virginia Tech football team opened their 2019 season Saturday against Boston College and Brock Hoffman had hoped to be part of the action for the…
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It’s been said that we as a culture have lost the capacity to be surprised, that there’s little in this day and age that truly shocks us anymore.Well, I…
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For the last week, the major question raging through African American barbershops, backyard barbecues and other places where black men gather had nothing… -
After the season the Orioles have had and the week they endured last week, Sunday afternoon’s home plate celebration following Rio Ruiz’s ninth inning… -
It’s hard to ascribe “blink and you missed it” status to something that goes on for three weeks.Yet, one of the world’s great sporting events, the Tour de… -
While checking out my Twitter feed the other night, I happened upon the page of Rich Eisen, an NFL Network anchor.Eisen, who hosts one of the best sports…
