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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While it’s true that the family stands at the core of every success story, in order to truly make a mark, you need someone outside your circle of life to… -
When I was a kid, I remember spending Sundays on the front porch of a friend of my older sisters, listening to old school R&B on their 45s and LPs. That… -
A good parent keeps an eye on what other parents do, but doesn’t let their decision-making impact on the choices they must make for their own kids. That’s… -
By all rights, Dak Prescott is the kind of guy that, in a sports context, I should hate.For openers, he’s the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys,… -
Imagine you’re preparing to impress a first date at the best restaurant in town. Or, better yet, the dates have gone so well over a period of time that… -
The shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, Wisconsin police officers last week reopened deep wounds that had barely begun to close, much less heal, among… -
When the bard posited so many years ago that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, he couldn’t have imagined the idea of 21st century sports.In… -
It’s hard to think of this miserable time that we’ve all been forced to endure as yielding a winner, as it feels as though in some ways we’ve all… -
It’s been nearly 20 years since Sean Frazier was a linebacker at Alabama that he’s done anything heroic on a football field. But when the history of how… -
The phrase “speaking truth to power” has been said so frequently of late that it’s bordering on triteness, if not outright cliche.But when a group of more…
