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 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.… -
For millions of Americans, things like soy and almond milk and plant-based protein have become important substitutes for more traditional products like… -
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… -
If the people who run football had their way, you’d see their game not in terms of a mere battle between offense and defense, but rather in the context of… -
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…
