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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The Orioles began the 2019 season winning two of three against the Toronto Blue Jays. They closed the season winning two of three against the defending… -
Amid all the gloom and cynicism attending sports these days come a couple of unrelated heart-warming stories, oddly enough emerging from the same place,…
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Collegiate athletes in California are one step closer to gaining a piece of financial freedom, now that a bill giving them the right to profit from their… -
There’s no truth to the rumor that school officials are thinking of changing the fight song at the University of Maryland to “Happy Days Are Here…
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The Virginia Tech football team opened their 2019 season Saturday against Boston College and Brock Hoffman had hoped to be part of the action for the…
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It’s been said that we as a culture have lost the capacity to be surprised, that there’s little in this day and age that truly shocks us anymore.Well, I…
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For the last week, the major question raging through African American barbershops, backyard barbecues and other places where black men gather had nothing… -
After the season the Orioles have had and the week they endured last week, Sunday afternoon’s home plate celebration following Rio Ruiz’s ninth inning… -
It’s hard to ascribe “blink and you missed it” status to something that goes on for three weeks.Yet, one of the world’s great sporting events, the Tour de… -
While checking out my Twitter feed the other night, I happened upon the page of Rich Eisen, an NFL Network anchor.Eisen, who hosts one of the best sports…
