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
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When Brandon Hyde sat at a microphone last week and declared that he was irritated at the abrupt end to the Orioles season, he spoke for a shockingly small number of Baltimoreans. -
No matter what this October portends for the Orioles, the immediate and perhaps extended future appears to hold considerable promise for the franchise. -
There’s been a collective feeling around Baltimore since the news broke that Brooks Robinson died that we now have this guardian angel above the clouds, doing what he can to make things better. -
We’re only a month and change into the 2023 college football season, but there’s already a dominant storyline and a central place where the story is being told, as well as a vehicle to tell the story through. -
Former baseball slugger Dick Allen once pithily said quote if a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it unquote, a reference to playing on artificial turf. -
In a sport like football that takes itself way too seriously, there is no place more sacrosanct than the position room. It’s the place where players who play the same position and the specific coaches who lead them congregate to contemplate in the days leading up to that week’s holy war. -
Of all the places one might expect to go for absolution, it’s a fair bet that a volleyball match would be fairly low on the list. Yet, that’s exactly what happened last Wednesday at the University of Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium, though hardly any of the more than 92,000 people in the house realized that was what was happening at the time. -
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For many, this time of the year brings on memories of joyful times, of camaraderie with like-minded kids, of days spent under the bright summer sun in blissful play.
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Ten years ago, St. Francis Academy, the oldest continuously operating, predominately African-American Catholic school in the United States, launched a… -
Black players in the National Football League have awakened to the realization, that despite their gifts to what has become the nation’s most popular… -
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