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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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 -
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.
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.… -
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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… -
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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…
