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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It takes a special quality to thumb your nose at a city, a state and a culture to hold out for just what you want just the way you want it. Call it persistence. Call it self-confidence. Call it arrogance. Whatever it is, Orioles CEO John Angelos has it in abundance. -
Greed, duplicity, betrayal and treachery.Sounds like the plot of a summer blockbuster movie or a Robert B. Parker mystery novel. That and the latest chapter of “As College Sports Turns.” -
We’re six weeks away from the start of a new NFL campaign, but we may already have identified the big winners of the pending professional football season. -
So, what does $260 million get you?We’re about to find out, now that Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has signed a new contract to remain arguably the most beloved figure in Charm City for at least the next five years. -
Lamar Jackson is betting big on himself. Will he roll sevens or snake eyes?
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Serena Williams exits the stage in Grand Slam fashion.
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St. Frances' program doesn't look like any high school program you've ever seen. -
Ravens GM Eric DeCosta has a big money decision to make over Lamar Jackson
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Now that the NFL has scrapped race norming, Black players may finally get their due. -
Orioles' GM Elias chose the future over trying to win now in dealing Trey Mancini.
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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… -
It was probably difficult to see on television Saturday, what with all that fog and mist that enveloped Pimlico, but a few seconds after Justify won the… -
You could get pretty good odds in Vegas or even at Pimlico this weekend that you couldn’t say with specificity what you were doing on April 13, 2009, or… -
It’s easy to look at the first month of the Orioles’ season and declare that all is lost.Just look at the statistics. You can learn something of a team… -
Budding journalists are taught that at the heart of every news story are six questions to be answered: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How.The Ravens’… -
As it has for every summer since it opened for business in 1997, the WNBA showcases the talents of more than 140 of the world’s best women’s basketball… -
There isn’t a lot that Adam Jones hasn’t done in his 10 years as the cornerstone of the Orioles lineup.He’s led the team to the playoffs. Two weeks ago,… -
The Ravens signed an accomplished African-American quarterback who has been out of football for an extended period to join their roster last week.But if… -
Mark Rypien’s first act was one many would kill for.Rypien was a two-time All Star in the National Football League, playing for 11 seasons and for five…
