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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Michael Strahan faced criticism on Fox’s NFL Sunday for not placing his hand over his heart during the national anthem, reigniting debates about patriotism and personal choice. Strahan, from a military family, defended his stance, underscoring cultural tensions around public displays of national pride. -
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.
Sports at Large
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While there are no actual NFL games at the moment, there’s also no shortage of drama during what is supposed to be an offseason.Some of it is ridiculous,… -
Spend any appreciable time around those in Generation Z, the group born between 1995 and 2015 and you understand that the only constant is change.… -
For millions of Americans, things like soy and almond milk and plant-based protein have become important substitutes for more traditional products like… -
If you want to know how far baseball is off its moorings, consider this: Pete Rose is claiming the high moral ground.Yes, that Pete Rose, the guy who… -
If the people who run football had their way, you’d see their game not in terms of a mere battle between offense and defense, but rather in the context of… -
It’s quite likely that Sunday’s news of the passing of Kobe Bryant will be this generation’s moment where everyone remembers where they were when they… -
These are heady days for the WNBA, a phrase you rarely, if ever, have heard before.Yet, as the women’s professional basketball league approaches its 24th… -
Was Alfred Lord Tennyson right nearly two centuries ago when he queried if it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?Or, posited…
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One of the recent trends in sports is to assemble some of the greats of a game onto an athletic version of Mount Rushmore.David Stern, who died New Year’s…
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At their best, sports provide a bridge to connect otherwise disparate groups often across racial, gender and ethnic lines.But, our games, or more…
