Sports at Large
"Sports at Large" airs Mondays at 2:34 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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We’ve reached the two-minute warning, if you will, of the 2024 presidential campaign, the near-conclusion of our long slog of an election season, the end of a grueling, bruising competition. By the end of Tuesday night, we may know whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will coach the American attack – offense, defense and special teams -- for the next four years. -
Sometimes, in sports, we search long and hard for the story of the underdog, the overachiever, the Cinderella, if you will. We yearn for the tale of the scrappy fighter that beats the odds to emerge victorious, to grab the brass ring and all those other hoary cliches that are a part of athletics. -
Bennett led the University of Virginia’s men’s team to its first national title five years ago and his Cavaliers would likely have been a force to be reckoned with in their conference and nationally. -
James Franklin has a problem. So, too, does Kevin Hambly. Franklin is the head football coach at Penn State and Hambly is the volleyball coach at Stanford. While they lead teams in different sports, their issue has its roots in the same source: the greed of those who run college football. -
Spend a moment talking to Baltimore sports fans of a certain generation and it won’t take long to figure out that they can carry a grudge against other cities and their sports teams. The root of some of those animosities are easy to decipher. Simple geography dictates that a rivalry between Baltimore and Washington must take place. -
It’s been a year since Baltimore sports fans suffered the first in the latest series of humiliations from their teams who raise their hopes with stellar regular season performances, only to crash and burn in the postseason -
If you’ve bought tickets for concert or movie, you know that the price on the stub is just a starting point, an opening act, if you will, to the fees and hidden charges that come tucked in to the cost of admission. -
We’re nearly past the second week of the new pro football season and the NFL is already at a philosophical crossroads. The league is again confronted with the specter of an incident in which one of its higher profile players suffered a concussion in a nationally televised game, Tua Tagovailoa's. -
In this episode, we dive into the brewing rivalry between WNBA stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, and how their on-court battles may divide passionate WNBA fans. -
Apparently, the observation that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result did not originate with Albert Einstein. Regardless of who said it, it hasn’t taken NCAA president Charlie Baker long to recognize that that trope is true relative to the organization he heads.
Sports at Large
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In Washington, a handful of legislators are preparing to say goodbye to public life in the lame duck session of Congress.Some will make farewell speeches.… -
In my bachelor days, I would occasionally come upon a carton of milk in the refrigerator that was just about to reach its expiration date. I’d give it the… -
What a mess!No, not the Afghan puppy that’s the subject of a series of children’s books, but rather the situation the Ravens and the NFL find themselves… -
If your household was like mine around this time of the year, the life of the turkey we dined on on Thanksgiving Day extended long past the meal of the… -
All around the sports landscape, champagne corks are being popped and backs are being patted with the news that a woman has been welcomed into the ranks… -
The diamond of a baseball stadium is a remarkably competitive place, even in the cold of winter, when there are only echoes of games gone by.And it’s not… -
Over a 12 year career, Bobby Orr provided a platform for defenseman play that is the gold standard in hockey. The photo of Orr flying through the air in… -
If we’ve learned nothing over the past seven months, it’s that there truly is no shame in college sports. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March,… -
In recent weeks, baseball fans have seen some of the greatest names in the game’s great history go on to their eternal reward with such notables as Tom… -
In the midst of the pandemic, Americans have been forced to find forms of entertainment that don’t involve getting in a car and leaving home. In the…
