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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Think the new baseball labor deal has settled matters? Think again. -
Mo Creek's escape from Ukraine is a page out of a spy novel. -
The traditional postgame handshake might be going the way of the dinosaur -
Imagine a better Olympics. It's easy if you try. -
Adding the designated hitter brings the National League into the modern era of sports. -
One viewer is skipping the big football game for puppies. Here's why. -
Keeping Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens out of the Hall of Fame is the right call. -
Antonio Brown's sideline meltdown has some wondering if his mental state is in play. -
Forty-five minutes with John Madden leaves a lifetime of memories. -
COVID concerns dominate the 2021 sports calendar, just as they did in 2020.
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There’s a saying at the end of a relationship that goes, don’t be sad that it’s ending, be glad that it happened. If we are, in fact, watching the end of… -
Did you hear the one about the major sports franchise that refused to play the Star-Spangled Banner before games and the furor that ensued? Chances are,… -
For most of the 20th century, the Sporting News was the bible of baseball, the publication where fans went to get player and manager quotes, box scores… -
For the last few years now, the political right in this country has reveled in the slogans “shut up and dribble” or “stick to sports” with those terms… -
It seems incongruous, bordering on ridiculous now in the days just past his death last Friday to say that Henry Aaron was underrated.How could a man who… -
At the end of a relationship, it’s typical for one or both parties to take stock, to dust oneself off, as it were, and try to figure out what went wrong… -
The last nine months or so have been marked with upheaval and a search for what’s familiar and what’s continual. Well, in these troubling times, isn’t it… -
I want to start 2021 with a confession: I play the lottery.Now, this isn’t an everyday thing. I don’t jeopardize my retirement or anyone’s college fund… -
It’s customary, at the end of a year, for wags and pundits to sum up the previous 12 months in a crude context, by naming those whose reputations have… -
There’s very little that many of us will take from this dumpster fire of a year. Most people I know have already purchased a calendar for 2021 in joyous…
