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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Nick Saban said the quiet part out loud and launched a college football war of words. -
Why the Maryland Stadium Authority shouldn't have knuckled under to the Orioles for Paul McCartney concert revenue. -
Baltimore's 'Small-timore' reputation is getting in the way of getting a new arena. -
Ineptitude by any other name is NCAA President Mark Emmert. -
The Orioles avoid the Christmas rush: Means' injury means that's a wrap for '22. -
With a couple of changes, Oriole Park still pitches a perfect game at age 30. -
College coaches have gotten more than they bargained for with the player transfer portal. -
Of hoops, coaches and Manilow: 20 years of "Sports at Large. -
Transgender athletes are embroiled in a coast-to-coast challenge -
Want to know the price of integrity? Just ask Deshaun Watson
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Some time before new calendars are posted in offices and kitchen walls around town, a potentially significant summit will take place, presumably in the… -
Click on the image for the audio. It’s been 24 years, nearly a generation, since Charles Barkley uttered the famous words "I am not a role model." At the… -
Click on the image for the audio. If politics truly makes for strange bedfellows, imagine how weird the NFL and its players feel right about now.The… -
Many years ago, far more than either of us would likely want to admit, a wonderful journalism professor of mine dropped a little verity on me and the rest… -
On April 20, 1996, the date of that year’s collegiate draft, the Baltimore Ravens tapped two men who would forge their places in league history.Jonathan… -
Click on the image for the audio. It took just a few hours into the new college football season for the proverbial apple cart to be overturned – and by… -
The beginning of a new year in Maryland schools is nigh and around most high schools these days, you’re likely to hear the sounds of pads thumping against… -
College students are only now starting to report for the new school year, and the first serious athletic competitions are a few weeks away.But the scene… -
We know you’ve been busy lately, what with summer vacations, planning for the eclipse, or checking out sunflowers, so maybe you haven’t been keeping up on… -
We’ve learned two things over the past 71 years since the aphorism “Nice guys finish last” was attributed to former Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo…
