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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When I heard that golfer Phil Mickelson was taking a hefty appearance fee to play in a tournament next month in Saudi Arabia, the phrase, “For what does… -
It only took 14 games into his second season for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson to grab a piece of professional football history.On a five-yard run in…
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It’s official: The 2020 Orioles will stink.That’s not exactly lurching deep into Nostradamus territory. With seasons of 115 and 108 losses as prologue –…
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If you were somehow on the fence about whether to completely embrace the Ravens, if the previous portion of the season wasn’t enough to get you a seat on…
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The NFL’s long national nightmare appears to be over and it has nothing to do with head trauma or a defensive lineman swinging a helmet at an opponent.No,…
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At a press conference a year ago to announce a contract extension to his original five-year pact, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred declared that “every…
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Winter is coming and it behooves us all to get ready. For some, that means stocking up on gloves, toilet paper and snow blowers.For sports fans, however,…
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By now, you’ve heard that the NCAA finally got wise and agreed to join the 21st century by applying common sense to the way it treats athletes.The news of…
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Normally, that NFL-imposed week off somewhere during the season helps the team taking the time away more than anyone else, namely the fans.And while…
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As the clock ran down at the end of last week’s fifth and deciding game of the WNBA Finals, the one that brought a championship to the Washington Mystics…
