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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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.… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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,… -
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… -
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…
