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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There’s another week before the cauldron is extinguished and time for magic to be made. Let’s just hope the magic of the Olympic rings hasn’t already gone too stale. -
NFL players may pay from their wallets for COVID-forfeited games this year. -
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Orioles centerfielder Cedric Mullins has traveled a special route to the All-Star Game. -
A US sprinter's suspension may force a conversation over cannabis use. -
College athletes are on the verge of receiving the freedom to make money from their sports. -
Baseball pitchers bring a new substance to an old problem: cheating. -
Player skepticism about COVID vaccines could derail the NFL's return this fall. -
What do the Orioles' rebuilding and a church's building fund have in common? -
Naomi Osaka's French Open silence could be dangerous for tennis.
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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…
