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’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. -
If you left a pair of three-year olds in the middle of a room with a bowl full of finger paints and told them to have at it, they could hardly make more of a mess than Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Orioles CEO John Angelos have with negotiations for a new Camden Yards lease. -
The industry of journalism in this country is under attack as never before. That’s not news. -
Everything in life is a matter of perspective, and depending on how you view things, the University of Michigan’s win over Ohio State in Saturday’s football game is either the universe setting things right or a triumph of darkness over the light. -
Following Thursday’s 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, Ravens linebacker Odafe Oweh declared that the team wanted to make a statement. -
During the 8 p.m. Saturday window this week, there was a cavalcade of the usual college football suspects on television -
While the sports world has been fixated on the goings on with the University of Michigan football program and the potentially explosive cheating scandal we told you about last week, the really important action has been taking place 2,000 miles away. -
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: There’s cheating going on in college sports and no one knows what to do about it.
Sports at Large
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We’re just a few days away from the launch of a new baseball season.Across the area, from Woodbine in the west, to Whiteford in the east, from the… -
There are those who will liken the UMBC men’s basketball team’s weekend in the NCAA tournament to an afternoon thunderstorm on a blistering hot July day.… -
With the start of spring rapidly approaching, the thoughts of many young people will turn, not lightly to love, but rather to the prospects of getting a… -
We begin today with a fairy tale and it goes something like this:Once upon a time, athletes in the United States competed for nothing more than the human… -
Suppose you were on the verge of throwing the year’s biggest party, but you weren’t sure how many guests could stay?That’s the dilemma before NCAA…
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Here are four things we know: One is that Donald Trump is President of the United States.Two is that, barring some unforeseen occurrence, Donald Trump… -
Football builds men. Football builds strength. Football builds character.Those are mantras uttered as near gospel by virtually every coach, player and… -
Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti has shared the grand plan for the franchise going forward, or at least, he’s disclosed who will be at the helm.General… -
Now that the great evil known as Larry Nassar has been purged from the national consciousness, we move on to the next phase of the Great Gymnastics… -
For the nearly 150 years since college students have been playing organized sports, the deck has been decidedly stacked against the collegians.Well, the…
