
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The industry of journalism in this country is under attack as never before. That’s not news.
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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.
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Following Thursday’s 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, Ravens linebacker Odafe Oweh declared that the team wanted to make a statement.
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During the 8 p.m. Saturday window this week, there was a cavalcade of the usual college football suspects on television
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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.
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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.
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The landscape is dotted with plenty of ways for people of a certain age to try to stay relevant, up to and including sports cars, hair plugs, Botox and tummy tucks, to name a few
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…