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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The Orioles are bringing Camden Yards' left field wall closer, aiming to boost offense and attract right-handed sluggers. While hitters welcome the change, questions remain about its impact on free agency and pitching strategy. -
If you’ve spent any time around toddlers, you know how much of a challenge it can be to get them to eat. Sometimes, they can spend as much time playing with their food, as they do actually eating it. With all due respect, watching the Baltimore Ravens play football this year can be a lot like watching a four-year-old at the dinner table. Sometimes, the spaghetti feels as likely to end up on the wall as it might in Tommy’s tummy. -
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.
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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.
Sports at Large
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While it’s true that the family stands at the core of every success story, in order to truly make a mark, you need someone outside your circle of life to… -
When I was a kid, I remember spending Sundays on the front porch of a friend of my older sisters, listening to old school R&B on their 45s and LPs. That… -
A good parent keeps an eye on what other parents do, but doesn’t let their decision-making impact on the choices they must make for their own kids. That’s… -
By all rights, Dak Prescott is the kind of guy that, in a sports context, I should hate.For openers, he’s the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys,… -
Imagine you’re preparing to impress a first date at the best restaurant in town. Or, better yet, the dates have gone so well over a period of time that… -
The shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, Wisconsin police officers last week reopened deep wounds that had barely begun to close, much less heal, among… -
When the bard posited so many years ago that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, he couldn’t have imagined the idea of 21st century sports.In… -
It’s hard to think of this miserable time that we’ve all been forced to endure as yielding a winner, as it feels as though in some ways we’ve all… -
It’s been nearly 20 years since Sean Frazier was a linebacker at Alabama that he’s done anything heroic on a football field. But when the history of how… -
The phrase “speaking truth to power” has been said so frequently of late that it’s bordering on triteness, if not outright cliche.But when a group of more…
